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  • Behaviour face to packaging waste and drugs out of use
    Publication . Nascimento, Luís; Costa, Xavier Taboada; Cardoso, Marisa; Figueiredo, Laura; Lopes, Ivo; Torres, Rui
    According to Directive No. 2004/12/EC of 11 February, up to the present calendar year (2011 ), Portugal should meet established with respect to the recycling of packaging waste and discarded drug targets . For this, it is essential that the population has acquired over the past few years, the necessary information. So, for that it is important the active participation of everyone in this delivery, in places due to the effect . The objectives of this research consisted in knowing what they know and do students of Health School of Sciences , in Polytechnic Institute of Bragança. The medicines and no longer use and its packaging , thus evaluating the delivery behavior of this type of waste in pharmacies . To achieve these goal, we selected the school referred to earlier as a case of study , using as an analytical tool , a questionnaire to be applied manually . The questionnaire was administered to a sample of 356 students from the Health School of Bragança . The results showed that most respondents only disposes drugs left over when finish their expiration date , and archive them first at home and then giving them as a destination in the first place , the dust and then the pharmacy . It is mainly women who goes to the pharmacy delivery medicines out of use, having as main reasons the binomial environment / health. It was also noticeable that people who do not deliver the medicines in pharmacies still overlap those that deliver them in pharmacies. These results, which allow a better understanding of the behavior of the students of the Health School of Bragança face to medicines , provide an important communication strategies and actions to improve the rates of recovery and recycling waste contribution .
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  • Comportamentos face aos resíduos de embalagens e medicamentos fora de uso
    Publication . Nascimento, Luís; Costa, Xavier Taboada; Cardoso, Marisa; Ferreira, Luciana; Lopes, Ivo; Torres, Rui
    Os medicamentos têm um papel importante na prevenção e tratamento das doenças do Homem e dos animais, no entanto, contêm substâncias químicas que podem contaminar o solo e a água, não devendo ser colocados no lixo comum. O problema é que boa parte da população não sabe disso ou mesmo sabendo não lhe dá o devido valor.1 A eliminação destes resíduos pela rede de esgotos ou pelo sistema de resíduos urbanos tem consequências no meio ambiente, comprovadas por vários estudos.2 O impacte ambiental resulta da ineficácia dos vários processos de tratamento, acabando as substâncias residuais por serem transferidas para os meios hídricos (rios, afluentes, lençóis de água, etc.) e para o solo.3
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