The Placer-Nevada Rx Drug Safety Coalition provides naloxone and information about locations for safe prescription drug medication disposal. Contact them directly for current info.

Web pages

• Home - https://www.scmfoundation.org/Programs/Rx-Drug-Safety
• Department of Healthcare Services (DHCS) California Drug Take-Back program - www.dontrushtoflush.org

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About Naloxone & Fentanyl

• Naloxone (name of medication) or Narcan™ (a common brand name) is a drug used to reverse an opioid overdose, including overdoses due to fentanyl. It is available without a prescription and legal to carry. Opioids include heroin, fentanyl, and prescription opioid medications such as oxycodone (OxyContin®), hydrocodone (Vicodin®), codeine, and morphine. Naloxone must be given quickly and 911 should be called to respond with additional care. After a quick training, anyone can administer naloxone to another person who has overdosed on opioids.
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Western Placer Waste Management Authority (WPWMA) provides access to:

• Waste Disposal
• Household Hazardous Waste
• Recycling Buyback

WPWMA works with a contractor to provide these services:

• Recycling drop-off & buy-back
• Compost sales
• Commercial hazardous waste disposal

Questions? Call 916-543-3960

Web pages

• WPWMA -https://www.wpwma.ca.gov/
• Medical sharps disposal -https://wpwma.ca.gov/placer-recycles/sharps-keep-them-out/
• Contact -https://wpwma.ca.gov/about-us/contact-us/

The City of Roseville's Waste Services Division provides weekly collection for nearly 50,000 residential homes and over 1,500 commercial customers.

Web pages

• Home - https://www.roseville.ca.us/government/departments/environmental_utilities/at_your_service/trash_and_green_waste#:~:text=The%20City%20of%20Roseville's%20Waste,recycling%2C%20and%20green%20waste%20annually.
• Household hazardous waste drop-off locations - https://wpwma.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Placer-Recycles_Resident-HHW_9.22_WPWMA-site.pdf

Recology Auburn Placer provides residential and commercial yard waste, recycling, and garbage collection to the communities of Auburn, Colfax, Rocklin, the Town of Loomis, and Unincorporated Placer County. The City of Roseville has its own waste services division. The City of Lincoln is served by Waste Management, Inc.

Sharps

All sharps waste must be transported to a collection center in an approved sharps container. Home-generated sharps waste includes hypodermic needles, syringes, and lancets that are used for medical purposes. Sharps in approved biohazard containers can be brought to the Recology Auburn Placer Transfer Station for safe disposal.

Visit the Placer-Nevada Rx Drug Safety Coalition for additional free year-round medical drop-off sites.

Sharps Mail-Back Service
Visit CalRecycle for a list of companies that are authorized to provide sharps waste mail-back services in California.

Web pages

• Main website - https://www.recology.com/recology-auburn-placer/
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McCourtney Road Transfer Station (MRTS)
14741 Wolf Mountain Road
Grass Valley, CA
530-274-3090 (if you are not calling for any of the named menu options, press 0 once or twice and it may take you to a call agent)
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Residential Recycling Drop-off for recyclables and cardboard
At McCourtney Road Transfer Station (a buy back location)
OR
At the WM Commingle Residential Recycling Drop-off location (NO buy back)
GPS Address: 12556 Loma Rica Ave, Grass Valley, CA 95945
Physical Address: 12640 Loma Rica Ave, Grass Valley, CA 95945
Both locations are free for residential customers.

The WM Facebook page posts service updates: https://www.facebook.com/NevadaCountyWM/
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HOURS OF OPERATION

• E-Waste & Universal Waste Only - Wed-Sun, 8am to 3:30pm
• Individual Households for Household Hazardous Waste - Fri-Sun, 8am to 3:30pm
• Business and Commercial Customers for Household Hazardous Waste Facility: Bill of Lading, Pricing, EPA number, and Appointment required. Please call 530-2…

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July 2022 update on SB1383 & AB1826
Food waste collection service for businesses and residences in Nevada County, Grass Valley and Nevada City is on the way. Until announced, keep putting your food waste in your trash, and keep it out of the green waste cart!

California State Laws SB1383 & AB1826 require collection of organic materials such as food scraps, and food-spoiled paper in addition to landscape trimmings. Nevada County currently does not have the infrastructure to support these laws at the scale needed until the transfer station update project is completed. Food diversion updates will be provided by WM of Nevada County and your local government.

If you would like to practice food diversion now, donate unopened edible food to community food banks and start composting in your yard or find a farmer to give your scraps to.
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Don’t Rush to Flush program of the California Product Stewardship Council has the goal of increasing the appropriate disposal of unwanted medicines, including prescription drugs, across the state of California.


Web pages

• Home -  https://www.dontrushtoflush.org/

Nevada County Public Health’s health access vending (HAVEN) machines provide free and confidential county health products and services that:

• Save lives
• Prevent chronic disease
• Promote mental and physical health
• Reduce harm

All products are free and you can register for a unique pin number to access products easily online or in-person.

Products available through the vending machines include:

• Naloxone (Narcan) and fentanyl test strips
• Medication and sharps disposal kits
• Adult and children’s oral health kits
• First aid, hygiene and grooming kits (but not menstrual/period products)
• Safer sex kits
• And more

Locations of Health Access Vending (HAVEN) machines

• Truckee - Joseph Center, 10075 Levon Avenue, Truckee, CA 96161, M-F from 8am-5pm
• Grass Valley - Commons Resource Center - 1105 Sutton Way, Grass Valley, CA 95945 - hours M,W,F from 11am-2pm. If staff available, machine is accessible M-F 8am-5pm (CRC scheduled to fully open in July 2024 https://www.nevadacountyca.gov/3810/Commons-Resource-Ce…

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Nevada County Public Health Department - Health and Wellness Division programs

• Alcohol and drug use prevention education
• CalFresh healthy living
• Emergency Preparedness & Planning
• Oral health program
• Suicide prevention education
• Tobacco use prevention
• WIC (Women, Infants, and Children) program

Let's Talk Nevada County
Let’s Talk Nevada County is a campaign to promote awareness of wellness strategies and resources and encourage conversations about how we’re feeling during times of stress. It was started during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The goal is to build resiliency within our community, and to remind everyone that self-care is critical, as is connection with our natural networks of support.  When we need more support than our friends and family are able to provide us, professional helping services are available too. It’s ok not to be ok all the time.

Web pages

• Healthy Community Programs home - https://www.nevadacountyca.gov/678/Healthy-Community-Programs
• Prescription Drug Take …

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Nevada County Public Health Department can help you keep drugs out of reach of kids and protect our water supply by properly disposing of your prescription medications. In addition to permanent drop-off sites, there are periodic "Prescription Drug Take-Back Days," which are free events hosted by local law enforcement and the DEA (Drug Enforcement Administration) to give our community safe and convenient ways to drop off expired or unused prescription drugs. Take back days depend on funding being available.

NCPHD has info about drop off locations and locations where people can pick up mail in envelopes for pills, inhalers, and sharps.

Web pages

• Drop off locations and locations where people can pick up mail in envelopes for pills, inhalers, and sharps - https://www.nevadacountyca.gov/683/Prescription-Drug-Take-Back
• Order free postage paid mailing packages from MED-Project - https://med-project.org/locations/california/meds/mail-services-for-disposal/

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