Duluth, Minnesota: Medicine Cabinet Clean-Out Day, the EPA Great Lakes 2008 Earth Day Challenge is underway with about 40 projects in hundreds of communities in eight states, including Duluth, Minnesota in Duluth, “Medicine Cabinet Clean-Out Day” offers residents free , safe disposal of unwanted medicines. The Earth Healing Initiative has our local interfaith liaison in Duluth made contact with officials. He is Pastor Doug Paulson – a campus pastor at the University of Minnesota – Lutheran Campus Ministry. “Medicine Cabinet Clean-Out Day” in Duluth, Minnesota area is 26 April. The Drive-Thru event runs from 10.00 bis 16.00 clock clock at the Western Lake Superior Sanitary District (WLSSD) HHW Facility (2626 Courtland St.) in Duluth. Gina Temple-Rhodes, the district’s environmental program coordinator, said: “Residents should bring medications in their original containers. Temple-Rhodes said, adding that mercury thermometers and medical instruments – which are securely packaged in rigid containers – also adopted free be. Two previous collections of Minnesota first-ever drug survey in October 2007. The Western Lake Superior Sanitary District collected “a total of 591 pounds of unwanted pharmaceuticals from 391 households to fill said enough for six 55-gallon drums,” Temple-Rhodes. The district event coordinator – Susie Darley-Hill said – “drugs are accepted only for special events by U.S. drug laws.” She Said “if drugs must be disposed of during other times …