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    • Coal Tar Sealants
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Safely Disposing Prescription Drugs

4/8/2015

 
PictureYes, you have unwanted/unneeded/expired drugs. Keep them out of our waters!
If you are like us, April means its Drug Take Back time, and you are in the habit of going through your  prescription and over-the-counter drug containers to weed out the expired and unneeded drugs.  That is still a good idea, but this year you may have to rethink where you will bring the drugs for safe disposal so they stay out of our freshwater sources. 

After organizing highly successful National Drug Take Back Days in April and October of the last four years, the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) has discontinued the program.  Ongoing local collection sites are now available thanks to the Secure and Responsible Drug Disposal Act of 2010. 

To find a drug collection site near you, search the DEA's database, or find a site run by
Yellow Jug Old Drugs®, a collection program operated by the Great Lakes Clean Water Organization in Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan and Ohio. 

Leagues Support County Measure to Safeguard Great Lake

4/2/2015

 
PictureLocation of proposed Ontario Power Generation nuclear waste repository near Lake Huron. (Image credit: cleanwateraction.org)
LWVLMR thanks and salutes the Leagues of Women Voters of Downers Grove/Woodridge/Lisle, Elmhurst, Glen Ellyn, Naperville, Roselle/ Bloomingdale, and Wheaton, for taking action on a matter to safeguard the Great Lakes. In February, these Leagues jointly testified in favor of a proposed DuPage County, IL resolution which opposed development of a deep geological repository for low and medium level nuclear waste in Canada. The proposed site is about 1 km (that's about .6 miles) from the shores of Lake Huron.

Opposition to the proposed waste site is coming from all levels here in the Great Lakes region.  Numerous communities throughout the Great Lakes Basin - on both sides of the border - have also passed resolutions. 

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