HSE medicine disposal service

A FREE service to dispose of unused or out-of-date medicines is on offer to people in Cork and Kerry.

More than 200 pharmacies in both counties are participating in the campaign and are actively encouraging people to return unwanted medicine to them so that the material can be disposed of safely.

A previous Dispose of Unused Medicines Properly (DUMP) campaign, which finished last March, saw a staggering 2.5 tonnes of unused medicines returned by the public to their local participating pharmacy.