City-wide drug take back event slated for Saturday

TULSA — Expired or extra medications often collect in medicine cabinets or drawers around the home.

It’s important to dispose of them safely, and dumping them down the sink or toilet ends up putting dangerous chemicals into the water system.

Water treatment plants are not designed to remove many of those chemicals.

So the city and several non-profit agencies in the area are teaming up for a drug take back event Saturday, October 27 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

The locations are:

• Reasor's parking lot – 7114 S. Sheridan Road
• Patrick Henry Elementary parking lot – 3820 E. 41st St.
• Spirit Halloween (old Gander Mountain) parking lot – 8310 S. Olympia Ave.
• Union High School/UMAC – 6636 S. Mingo Road
• Union Ellen Ochoa Elementary – 12000 E. 31st St.

You can also take unused medications to any Tulsa Police Division  or the Sheriff’s Office between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 4 p.m. throughout the year.

• Tulsa Police Gilcrease Division, 3436 N. Delaware Ave., 8 a.m. – 4 p.m. Monday through Friday.
• Tulsa Police Mingo Valley Division, 10122 E. 11th St., 8 a.m. – 4 p.m. Monday through Friday.
  
• Tulsa Police Riverside Division, 7515 S. Riverside Drive, 8 a.m. – 4 p.m. Monday through Friday.
• Tulsa County Sheriff, 303 W. First St., 8 a.m. – 4 p.m. Monday through Friday.