MORRIS COUNTY, NJ- The  "Operation Take Back" program will take place on Saturday, April 27, announced Morris County Prosecutor Robert J. Carroll, Chief of Detectives Robert McNally, Morris County  Sheriff James M. Gannon, Hanover Township Chief Michael Loock, Morris Plains Borough  Chief of Police Mike Koroski, Morris Township Chief of Police Robert Shearer, and Randolph  Township Chief of Police Will Harzula.

Operation Take Back is a semi-annual event coordinated nationally by the United States Department of Justice, Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) in which law enforcement agencies at the state, county, and municipal level work collectively to host Operation Take Back across the nation.

The goal of Operation Take Back is to encourage the public to anonymously turn over unused, unwanted, or expired prescription medicine for proper disposal. All  collected expired or unwanted prescription drugs will be properly destroyed them in safe and non-hazardous manner.

Expired and unwanted medications can be dropped off at the following locations:

• ACME Supermarket  690 Millbrook Ave.  Randolph
• Budd Lake Fire Department  378 Route 46  Budd Lake
• Flanders Fire Department  27 Main Street  Flanders,
• Shoprite of Greater Morristown  178 East Hanover Ave.  Cedar Knolls
• Stop and Shop Supermarket  245 Littleton Rd./US 202  Morris Plains
• Wegmans  34 Sylvan Way  Hanover Township 

If you are unable to drop off your medication at one of these locations, you can utilize any other permanent drop box locations nearest you, which are listed at http://safehealthymorris.org/dropbox

Author : TAPinto Staff

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