Greening the pharmacy

Science. 2022 Jul 15;377(6603):259-260. doi: 10.1126/science.abp9554. Epub 2022 Jul 14.

Gorka Orive^{1

2

3

4}, Unax Lertxundi⁵, Tomas Brodin⁶, Peter Manning^{7

8}

¹ Laboratory of Pharmaceutics, School of Pharmacy, University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain.
² Biomedical Research Networking Centre in Bioengineering, Biomaterials and Nanomedicine, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain.
³ Bioaraba, NanoBioCel Research Group, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain.
⁴ Singapore Eye Research Institute, Singapore.
⁵ Bioaraba Health Research Institute, Osakidetza Basque Health Service, Araba Mental Health Network, Araba Psychiatric Hospital, Pharmacy Service, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain.
⁶ Department of Wildlife, Fish, and Environmental Studies, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Umeå, Sweden.
⁷ Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
⁸ Department of Biological Sciences, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway.

Abstract

New measures and research are needed to limit the ecological impact of pharmaceuticals.