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Illinois Students Helping the Environment

By: Kira Miner
Updated: January 8, 2009
 Pontiac, Illinois is a few hours south of Chicago. Kids there want you to think before flushing your old medicine. Medicines are getting past water treatment plants and into our drinking water. Government scientists have found pharmaceuticals in 80 percent of the waterways they test.

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