Unused Olympic's medications and food & drink NOT being recycled.

It would help if you provided a link

hello here's a link to the thread on Mumsnet.

I would really appreciate any help or support we can get, I feel like a very small voice on this at the moment and there is still time to make a difference...

LizaTarbucksAuntie Thread

Thank you

I thought medication could no longer be passed on. It's probably some sort of EEC directive.

But local GP surgeries send unopened packets of drugs with long use by dates to the Third World. I am sure that not all these Olympic drugs were opened.

They can't ditch this food if it is in date surely? - what about the homeless on their doorstep in London?

I think crimson is right. Once medicines have left the pharmacy they cannot be given to anyone else. The problem is that they may have been tampered with.

GP surgeries may count as safe environments like pharmacies.

I suppose the food could have been tampered with, as well?

Yes. Which is not to say that I don't think it a shame we can't find a way round the waste problem.

three negatives! Good grief!

But yes, it is a great shame.

This organisation accepts unwanted medecines.

www.intercare.org.uk/donate-medicines

The scheme works mostly through GPs who are registered with Intercare to collect and foreward what their patients have returned to them, but medecines can also be posted directly to them.

Thanks, elegran. That's good to know about. I'll tell my pharmacist, who seemed to think it was impossible.

Thanks for the link to the original posting on Mumsnet, Lizatarbucksauntie.
And thanks elegran for posting the link for inter are.org.uk.

IF unused food was not recyclable due to possible '' tampering'', M & S and other supermarkets would not be the principle donors providing food to homeless shelters in the UK.

Drugs and dressings are acceptable overseas, and presumably the UK, ( re '' inter--care.org.uk) under the guidelines set out in the WHO's ( World Health Organization) 1999 Geneva Guidelines).

The document on waste strategy which sets out the aspiration for re using surplus items. You can find it under '' waste'', etc

. This is copied from the Mumsnet thread which has been posted by LizaTarbucksAuntie here previously.

Harriet Harman, easily found on Google:

Harriet Harman MP
House of Commons
London
SW1A 0AA

Fax: 0207 219 4877

[email protected]

Thanks ANNOBEL fir the Harriet Harman link, I have emailed her, asking her to check out this and the Gransnet site, and also asking for a reply.

Sorry to butt in but was it not Tessa Jowell not Harriet Harperson?

Yes Pogs you are right, it was and is Tessa Jowell, oops!

Have emailed her now, but HH may do something to help?

Had anyone contacted their MP about this?

Thanks everyone, Intercare was the charity Mum suggested at the Olympics. It's not just the medicines, but the dressings and the fact that after each event nothing was re-used despite a clear re-use/donate policy in the Olympic waste strategy.

apparently Dame Tanni GreyThompson picked it up fro Twitter and a couple of Jounalists are interested but everything helps so anything you can do to to keep the issue alive at the moment gratefully appreciated.

Thanks.

Well LizaT's Auntie.

In shall contact my on MP and AM today, I live un Wales so get two representatives, one in Westminster & One in cardiff at thevWelsh Assembly.

As there are big rugby and other games at the Millennium Stadium every week, probably similar shortsighte policies on recycling are practiced.

Shall post when I have any replies.

Tessa Jowell and Tammi Grey-Thompson have shown interest, maybe woman will lead the way in this one too through our pressure.

Come on Gransnetters, let's speak up for fairplay in real life as well as in the Games. !

Morning - you can also sign this twitition if you would like to,

many thanks for all the supoprt

Twitition

I'm sorry, I know this is a good cause, but 'twitition'?

nag we know your aversion to twitter . I have signed.

It's not Twitter I'm objecting to in this case - just the invention of a new word which sounds silly!

Log on to the blue twitition above and it tells u all about it