| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立屏東科技大學 === 環境工程與科學系所 === 99 === The spread of Pharmaceuticals and Personal Care Products (PPCPs) in the environment and its influence are significant environmental protection issues in developed countries. The pharmaceuticals have been mass produced and used by human or animals. Due to the traditional way to dispose un-use or expired into sewage can not efficiently decompose PPCPs, after improperly discharged into water, the bioaccumulation effect would have greater impact to the whole ecological system. Therefore, it is studied in this thesis that to understanding how people deal with the discarded pharmaceuticals and what they know about the impact to the environment, and then proceeds to educate them the knowledge and the proper way of dispose discarded pharmaceuticals. Also, the environmental protection organization uses mass media to propagate the concepts of the environment risk perception toward the discarded pharmaceuticals was discussed in this thesis.
This research is targeted the people of three southern Taiwan cities, there are 411 effective questionnaires. The data are analyzed by statement statistic, One-way Analysis of Variance (ANOVA), crisscross analyzed and chi-sqrare test.The results are as following:
1. The great majority of the household abandoned pharmaceuticals are “medicine for colds and relief inflammation”, there are around 95% people possessing discarded pharmaceuticals every year. Most people choose “the most convenient way” as reason to dispose discarded pharmaceuticals, and the most convenient way “Discarded with garbage” gets the highest percentage.
2. Most people consider “Send to drug disposal boxes they are aware of” as least harmful way to the environment to dispose household excessive or expired pharmaceuticals. However, only 22.4% of the people under survey know whether any drug disposal box is set up in their neighborhood, while as high as 77.6% of them “don’t know” it.
3. For people’s sense of environmental risk regarding to discarded pharmaceuticals, “Harmfulness to human health” has the highest score, and “Time interval for harmfulness to appear” has the lowest score. There are distinct variations of people’s sense of environmental risk owing to the difference of sex, marital status, education level, and monthly salary.
4. The major mass media channels for people to receive the information about discarded pharmaceuticals are “Television”, “Newspaper”, and “Internet”. The variations of receiving channels are according to the difference of sex, age, marital status, education level, and occupation.
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