A local high school class says forget the rules you learned long ago about proper drug disposal.

Instead, students in Paul Ritter's Pontiac High School Ecology Classes say when you clean out your medicine cabinet, consider dropping them off at a local pharmacy.

The class has teamed up with different stores in Pontiac to help make drug disposal easy and safe.

Nick Sartoris with Sartoris Super Drugs Pharmacy said, "This is actually something that's going to be brought back to the pharmacies, the four pharmacies here in town: Sartoris, Walgreens, Walmart, and Kmart, all going to be involved. Basically the patients will take them to the pharmacy, we'll have a designated area, they'll be sent for incineration and actually that incineration will help produce electricity for homes."

Sophomore Brittany Kolesar said, "Our environment would be cleaned up more and we wouldn't have to worry about our Rivers and the creatures that live in it."

The class researched the effects of dumping medicine in the trash or down the toilet and found out that many local waterways are damaged with that procedure.

Sartoris says he hopes the pharmacies and class will be able to take their initiative state wide.

A similar program in San Francisco has seen success since starting last year.