{"id":92689,"date":"2026-08-08T09:03:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T09:03:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=92689"},"modified":"2026-08-08T09:03:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T09:03:13","slug":"wasted-medicine-in-the-uk-could-fill-75-swimming-pools-a-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/08\/08\/wasted-medicine-in-the-uk-could-fill-75-swimming-pools-a-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Wasted medicine in the UK could fill 75 swimming pools a year"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> < 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA29DX4N.img?w=768&h=432&m=6\" alt=\"File pic: iStock\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>About 3,400 tonnes of partially used medicines were estimated to have been thrown away in England in one year, pharmacies have said \u2013 enough to fill 75 swimming pools. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/health\/general\/wasted-medicine-in-the-uk-could-fill-75-swimming-pools-a-year\/ar-AA29Dxx1?ocid=msedgntp&pc=HCTS&cvid=6a76e411ebc54207bd8572ba0f78cd9c&ei=75\">Read More<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>About 3,400 tonnes of partially used medicines were estimated to have been thrown away in England in one year, pharmacies have said&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":92690,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/medicines.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92689"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92691,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92689\/revisions\/92691"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}