30/05/2026
Pet medication safe disposal.
Please do not flush or bin any unused or out of date pet medications. In regards to flea and worming products, ( tablets or spot on liquids), they contain chemicals that are highly toxic to fish. Knowing how our water companies like to discharge sewage into our rivers it means there’s chemical can easily end up there. When binned they will end up in landfill and again leach out into rivers and streams.
The manufactures themselves pass the buck by just saying “dispose of in line with your local regulations”.
It takes a while to find the correct local regulations but Leicester council waste management say to take them to your vets, however some vets may not want products not purchased from them in which case they should be taken to a pharmacy who will (should) dispose of them.
The same advice also goes for human medications even down to off the shelf painkillers etc as again these do not need to be in our watercourses.
