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Over a ton of drugs, $500,000 in narcotics collected in 2007 Earth Keeper Pharmaceutical Clean Sweep

by Greg Peterson | May 10, 2007

Marquette, MI - Northern Michigan Residents Turn In Tens of Thousands of Pharmaceuticals Weighing Over One Ton Narcotics Have Estimated Street Value of $500,000 (Marquette, Michigan) - Northern Michigan residents turned in tens of thousands of pills plus narcotics with an estimated street value of half a million dollars during the third annual Earth Keeper Clean Sweep.

Over one ton of medicines and personal care products were turned in by the public during the 2006 Pharmaceutical Clean Sweep with the goal or protecting drinking water and the Great Lakes, said Carl Lindquist, executive director of the Superior Watershed Partnership.

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