                   Notes from Meeting with Waste Management
                                       
                                       
Attended by:
Waste Management Staff:	Kerry Kelly, Charlotte Smith, and Jeff Gloyd

EPA Staff:	Charlotte Mooney, Betsy Devlin, Robert Dellinger, Jessica Young, Kristin Fitzgerald

Date:				February 11, 2011

EPA met with representatives from Waste Management.   

Waste Management discussed their recommendations for pharmaceutical take-back programs.  They mentioned that standard household hazardous waste collection programs do not accept pharmaceuticals because law enforcement would have to be present in order to accept controlled substances. Waste Management indicated that approximately 80-90% of waste-to-energy incinerators are able to accept the collected pharmaceuticals for combustion.  They also stated that 7 states require collected household pharmaceuticals to be managed as hazardous waste.

They also discussed their reaction to the public comments that EPA made at the public meeting that the Drug Enforcement Administration held on January 19 and 20, 2011. 

Waste Management also discussed their recommendations that containers that once held pharmaceuticals should not recycled.
