AMSTERDAM - Pharmacists are angry about local policies on hazardous waste. They pay thousands to tens of thousands of euros to process collected medical waste.
Today the Parliamentary Committee on Environment meets the water.It is also hazardous waste at issue and thus be discarded qualified drugs. That is, if a consumer it delivers. That's free because the consumer has already paid local afhalheffing.
Once pharmacies example, accept used syringes, and many users bring medical waste back, it is considered industrial waste in some municipalities. Therefore takes the pharmacy itself for the costs, according to a survey of pharmacists organization KNMP.
Gerben Klein Nulent, chairman of pharmacists organization KNMP, this week wrote in a letter to MPs to them and ask Environment Minister Schultz van Haegen municipalities to reflect their responsibility to pick up medication waste and do not charge fees for pharmacies.
Pharmacies are burdened by the cost and therefore stop taking some of the receipt of drug waste, so is likely to end up in normal bins or drains.
Cities such as Rotterdam and Zwolle count pharmacies 2000 euros and 2400 euros for the disposal of medical waste, according to the KNMP. It could be worse. Almere also allows pharmacies pay dearly, because the municipality pharmacies required to deal directly with a commercial waste disposal, Sita.
"It is impossible to explain," says Klein Nulent. "The process and funding based on randomness." Earlier, the Association of Dutch Municipalities (VNG) expressed its concern about the local differences in waste policy.
KNMP calls also good examples such as Amsterdam and Doves, which pick up the medication waste free of charge.
Small Nulent argues that not only the financing for pharmacies is a problem. "In some municipalities have to pharmacists driving yourself with bags of medical waste, while this fact is not permitted."
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