Social and environmental responsibility from the use and discard of medicines
International Journal of Development Research
Social and environmental responsibility from the use and discard of medicines
Received 07th December, 2018, Received in revised form 11th January, 2019, Accepted 15th February, 2019, Published online 31st March, 2019
Copyright © 2019, Marques and Xavier. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
The Environmental Education as a possibility to unify knowledge in the school context contributes to the formation of citizens who are critical and active in the preservation of the Environment. This study presents an analysis about the accomplishment of an Environmental Education Project with the generative theme of the use and disposal of medicines, in this way the objective was to investigate the students' perception of the use and disposal of medicines and the degree of information regarding its implications in relation to public health and / or the environment and so promote actions that reach the school community in order to raise awareness, awareness and guide to the correct final destination. The study was developed in 2017, with 95 students, from the State School Pedro Macedo in Curitiba - PR. It was possible to conclude that the thematic of the medicines contributes to the socio-environmental Responsibility with the development of actions that allow the minimization of the negative environmental impacts, potentializing discussions that emerge from the relations between human beings, society and nature.
