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Disposal of liquid nicotine questions - how to not kill birds/bees/fish and humans by disposing properly? (hexbear.net)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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As title states I’m looking to dispose of a bunch of 200mg/ml liquid synthetic nicotine I’ve had stored in Boston round bottles for the last three-four years. It’s an artifact from when I used to vape and I’m tired of it taking up freezer space.

In its current form it is extremely toxic to just about goddamned everything. In its current potency it is even more of a hazard to everything. I’d like to dispose of it, properly. I’ve already called my local landfill and they will not accept it. I dunno where else to put it, or how else to make it inert.

Does anyone have suggestions for how to do so? It’s about 5 liters, btw. I also have about 100-ish bottle of flavorants from when I used to mix my own vape juices. I think those can just be emptied into a wad of paper towels and disposed of conventionally.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

If you're in the US, your local pharmacy likely hosts a drug take-back box. You can put it in there, and congratulations: Safe disposal is now the responsibility of the DEA. Yes, Nicotine is considered a drug for this purpose, so this is the correct place to dispose of the liquid. Remove any personally identifying information, because nobody wants the liability.

As far as the flavorants go, those aren't a drug. If you're concerned about safe disposal and can't/don't want to research safe disposal of them, you can drop those off at your municipality's local Household Hazardous Waste Day (or Zero Waste Day) whenever that occurs for you.

Between these two options, you can get rid of basically anything you can't figure out how to safely dispose of for free.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

This is good advice I think. Thank you. The flavor agents will be going in the next few days, I have a CVS near me I will be poppin into to see if I can find the dropbox