Medical waste

solids, liquids, sharps, and laboratory waste that are potentially infectious; any kind of waste containing infectious (or potentially infectious) materials

method of providing drug users with uninfected equipment

medical facility

Pollution of the environment with pharmaceutical drugs and their metabolites

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effects of drugs on the environment

form of biomedical waste composed of "sharps" like used heroin syringes, which includes any device or object used to puncture or lacerate the skin

Micropollutants are substances that even at very low concentrations have adverse effects on different environmental matrices. They are an inhomogeneous group of anthroprogenic chemical compounds that is discharged by human to the environment. Commonly known micropollutants that might pose possible threats to ecological environments are, to name just a few: environmental persistent pharmaceutical pollutants and personal care products, pesticides, stimulants, persistent organic pollutants, and artificial sweeteners To date, most of the scientists have identified wastewater treatment plants