Zionsville Police Department encourages safe pill disposal

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Last week, the Zionsville Police Dept. premiered the town’s first-ever medical disposal box, which now sits inside the front doors of the police station.

ZPD chief Rob Knox said this is an effort to make sure the public is safely disposing of unused or expired prescription medicines.

“This is to keep people from flushing these things down the toilet,” Knox said. “And to keep them out of the wrong hands.”

The big, blue box is mounted to the floor and the wall in the outer lobby of the station, next to the emergency telephone. This area of the station is open 24/7 to the public.

Knox said there is a camera in this entryway, so all disposals are being recorded and nobody can easily steal items disposed off.

This initiative was done in cooperation with the Boone Co. Solid Waste District. Jennfer Lawrence of the BCSWD was able to get a federal grant for the purchase of this dropbox.

 “So it did not cost us any local tax dollars,” Knox said.


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