Pharmaceutical Drugs Found in Water Around Maine's Landfills

Pharmaceutical drugs that are thrown in the trash end up contaminating the water that leaches from landfills, according to the results of a study by the Maine Department of Environmental Protection.
The three test sites were in Augusta, Brunswick and Bath. According to the study, water that leaked from each of the landfills including antidepressants, antibiotics, steroids and heart, asthma and pain medications.
“These test results back up what we believed to be true and that is that left over prescription drugs that people throw away really don’t ever go away,” Mark Hyland, Director of the Bureau of Remediation and ....