Expired birth control pills

[oopsiedaisies7.livejournal.com]

I recently re-discovered two packs of Ortho-Cyclen that I never took (I was on the pill 2-ish years ago). I had been keeping them in case I wanted to manipulate my cycle to prevent an ill-timed period or something, but I just noticed that they expired 7 months ago. So now that I can't take them, I don't want to keep them (obviously).

So, what's the deal? Can I just throw them away?

Comments

[sekaijuuni.livejournal.com]

At the risk of sounding stupid, why can't they be flushed or tossed out?

Maybe I once got a chain email about higher estrogen levels(?) in residents of some American cities because of all the BC hormones that get peed out into the water supply, but if I did, I ignored it.

[knittinggoddess.livejournal.com]

It does get into the water supply, but as this article argues, (http://www.rhrealitycheck.org/blog/2010/11/17/birth-controltainted-ladypee-water-myth-menace) hbc is only a small fraction of the synthetic estrogens we pump into the environment, and there's some misogyny in the hoopla.

Of course, that's not to say you should go drop those pills in salmon spawning grounds. I agree, getting your pharmacist to dispose of them is the enviro friendlier way.

[realt-stea.livejournal.com]

that is exactly why :)