Table 2.
A summary of household respondents' views on the impact of pharmaceutical residues on their external environment.
| Question | Response (%) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Strongly agree | Disagree somewhat | Agree somewhat | Neither agree nor disagree | Strongly disagree | |
| Households | |||||
| Taking my unused or expired medication to the pharmacy for disposal would be inconvenient? | 39.8 | 22.0 | 13.5 | 8.0 | 16.8 |
| We should only spend money on environmental problems that affect human health, not on problems that only affect other species or ecosystems. | 31.0 | 17.3 | 7.5 | 12.3 | 31.8 |
| We should try to prevent all water pollution, even if we have no evidence that a pollutant will harm humans or ecosystem health. | 74.3 | 15.0 | 5.5 | 3.5 | 1.8 |
| If an environmental problem does not affect my health or my property, I do not care about it | 18.8 | 15.5 | 8.0 | 7.5 | 50.3 |
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| Pharmacies and over-the-counter medication shops | |||||
| We should only spend money on environmental problems that affect human health, not on problems that only affect other species or ecosystems. | 28.6 | 17.1 | 5.7 | 5.7 | 42.9 |
| We should try to prevent all water pollution, even if we have no evidence that a pollutant will harm human or ecosystem health. | 60.0 | 11.4 | 11.4 | 2.9 | 14.3 |
| If an environmental problem does not affect my health or my property, I do not care about it. | 20.0 | 5.7 | 8.6 | 2.9 | 62.9 |
| Taking unused or expired medication to the FDA or wholesalers for disposal is inconvenient? | 42.9 | 17.1 | 14.3 | 8.6 | 14.3 |