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

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

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.

But yes, it is a great shame.

three negatives! Good grief!

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

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

GP surgeries may count as safe environments like pharmacies.

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.

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

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...

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Thank you

It would help if you provided a link