Thumbs Up! – Sept. 5, 2011

Got pills? It is time once again to clean out the medicine cabinets, drawers, purses and anywhere else old prescription drugs may be stored. Keep Albany Dougherty Beautiful and local law enforcement agencies are teaming up for the second year to host Operation Pill Drop. The event is a national effort to keep medicines from being flushed into municipal water systems and ground water, as well as out of the wrong hands, especially those of children and teens. On Sept. 17, unwanted and/or outdated medications can be dropped off at the Albany Civic Center for safe disposal. At the first pill drop in Albany, more than 300 pounds of drugs, mostly pills and tablets, many decades old, were collected. Also on the 17th this year at the same location, there will be an electronics recycling opportunity. Computers, cameras, phones and more will be collected, and the toxins therein kept from the landfill. Printer and ink cartridges of all types will also be accepted. It doesn