[Tagging] Is there a tag for marking whether pharmacy allows to leave old medicines?

[stevea]

In my community (California), there are some subtle differences here.  SOME (not all) pharmacies have facilities to dispose of "expired medications."  If you have these and want to properly dispose of them, this is the correct way to do it (here).  However, you'll need to phone ahead to find out of any particular pharmacy has one of these "drop boxes," as again, not all do (different from the UK, I just learned).  Also, they do not accept "other" sorts of similar items, like old multivitamins or herbal supplements, ONLY prescription drugs.  I have noticed that every single one of these is under video camera surveillance (inside the drugstore, usually near the pharmacy counter), so that should be an additional tag if it exists.

There are also less-commercial (more public health oriented) drop-boxes for ILLEGAL drugs which are not the same thing.  These might be found outdoors, in parks, but the one I know is between the county jail and county courthouse (it is outdoors in a park-like setting) and while I'm not sure of video surveillance, it very likely is quite "well-watched" even if I can see any camera(s).  There are often sheriff deputies, jail personnel and/or city police officers around, but not 24/7 like it is being actively watched, so it's actually a smart location for this (imo).  I would guess this is very frequently "emptied."  Sort of like a baby hatch, but for illegal drugs.

Next to this is a different sort of "drop box" labelled "SHARPS" for the (again, proper) disposal of street-drug needles and the like.  These are all different from one another but do fall into a broad category of semantically related things.  If / as a wiki develops, all of these and any other flavors I've left out should be included for completeness' sake.