CTV News – Medicines flushed down toilets hurting fish: study

http://www.ctvnews.ca/health/medicines-flushed-down-toilets-hurting-fish-study-1.1157882

…”I think people are starting to understand that pharmaceuticals are environmental contaminants,” said Dana Kolpin, a researcher for the U.S. Geological Survey who is familiar with the study.”…

This is as bad as land use pesticides and is in a way it’s equivalent.

Yet because everything is flushed away, sight unseen and unimportant in people’s minds.

We’re just starting to address landfills and recycling in the last 2 decades. Time we started treating this as a serious issue.

Human drug use in all it’s forms is rampant and out of control. The elimination of it’s by products as well as the drug itself is causing irreparable harm to fish stocks and genetic integrity of vulnerable Life that we are stewards of. They have no say, we do and can change how we deal with this.

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