MARQUETTE, MI-- Residents can safely dispose of their old medications and products that contain microbeads during a U.P.-wide event Saturday.
The Superior Watershed Partnership and churches in the Earth Keeper network are collaborating to collect the items.
Natasha Koss is program manager at the SWP. She says it comes down to water quality.
“Our wastewater treatment plants are unable to treat a lot of the medications and they don’t catch the tiny plastic particles and so it ends up in our water.”
Collections will be held from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. For a list of drop-off locations go to www.superiorwatersheds.org/pollution-prevention, or call 228-6095, extension 11.
