Um estudo sobre o descarte de medicamentos em Dom Pedrito/RS

Abstract

Medicines can be considered toxic waste. Depending on the toxicity grade, it can causes Environment’s contamination. Because of this, they need a different final destination when compared to common waste. After expiration date, it can be a worry for relevant public health. The aimed of this work is to get the number of local medicines discard’s rate in Dom Pedrito/RS urban area; the volume of solid and liquid wasted by this population, and a questioner application to elementary school in this city in order to verified the understanding of this students about the correct discard of medicines. According to the purposes, among 15 health establishment in this city, it was confirmed that only two establishment receive expired medicines. Indeed, it is not possible to quantify the volume of disposed’s medicines for the population, solids and liquids. In relation to the questioner applied to 80 students in public school, it was verified that they have no information about correct disposed, though they had knowledge about the damage it can cause in environmental. This data suggest the emphasys to proposing actions to stimulated awareness.