It seems that it turns up everywhere, medical or clinical waste umped into the environment generally by small producers and those seeking to avoid disposal costs, or by others who simply take insufficient care in waste security.

This time, its medical waste dumped along the Satilla River, Ware County, Georgia. A couple of garbage bags full of refuse were found near the US 84 bridge at the Ware-Pierce county line. The waste contained medicine bottles, syringes, rubber hoses and disposable gloves.

At the time of reporting, it is unclear if the waste was from medicines used for human or animal treatment.

http://www.wtvy.com/home/headlines/Ga_investigating_medical_waste_dumping_near_river_125839493.html

Of course, the latter is a real problem. Without casting too many aspersions against our veterinary colleagues, or the stockmen who will be responsible for the administration and thus the disposal of a wide range of pharmaceuticals, the figures from any assessment of waste volumes from veterinary and animal husbandry sources simply do not add up. Most waste management companies will have contracts from veterinary producers; who has a contract with one of the many large animal facilities? Whether cattle, sheep, pigs or chickens, the numbers of animals can be particularly large, perhaps as smaller stockholders fall by the wayside in these difficult times. But in these large facilities, the volumes of waste, of sharps and of pharmaceuticals wastes produced are not inconsiderable. Most of it disappears.