Contaminação do meio ambiente pelo descarte inadequado de medicamentos vencidos ou não utilizados

Abstract

Can be notice that the destruction of natural resources start to have a exponential scale starting from the Industrial Revolution. The human intervention is responsible by emission of different pollutants as the inadequate discard drugs. So this study had for objective show that by habits changes we can favor the environment. For this we need be discard de expire or not use drugs in adequate places without cause risks for the environment favoring the population health and welfare. For this study were realized bibliographic research’s in primary and secondary sources for obtain one lifting about the destination of discard drugs. The field research was realized with one sample of 50 basics students families belonging to the scholar community of the Dom Pedro II Basic Education School, Agudo, RS, Brazil. For the data collecting was utilized a interview with semi-structured questions. For the results analyze and discussion organized lifting and graphics. In front the results obtained by the research about discard drugs can conclude that larger part of population discard inadequately the drugs because don’t know about the harms that this drugs cause for the environment and too because don’t have a adequate place for drugs discard.