Plastic bags are easy: You can ban them. Solutions to the environmental problems posed by drugs are considerably more elusive. Nevertheless, a proposed San Francisco ordinance scheduled for final vote at the end of January would have mandated that “producers” — basically manufacturers — create and fully support a “product stewardship program” to dispose of all drugs no longer wanted by San Francisco residents. The proposed ordinance was returned to committee after pharmaceutical companies offered to create an 18-month drug take-back pilot program in the city.
No doubt passage of the ordinance would have resulted in litigation over San Francisco’s authority to force the manufacturers to solve this environmental problem.
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