Waste
Misc.
Case Study
General
100

The common traditional wastewater treatment method utilized by pharmaceuticals. 

What is Aerated Activated Sludge?
100

Because they are exposed to toxic compounds, fish leave their ______ more often. 

What are schools?

100

What are the 4 objectives for the Novartis sustainability strategy?

What is Planet, Patients, People, Policy?

100

What drug is fentanyl 50x more potent than?

What is heroin

200

This common medication is frequently detected in sewage, surface water, and ground water (3 possible answers)

What is Motrin, Advil, or Aleve 

200

This book identifies pathways of pharmaceuticals entering into the environment. 

What is The Life-Cycle of Pharmaceuticals in the Environment

200

What is the name of the program launched by Novartis and other pharmaceutical companies at the 2021 UN climate change conference? 

What is Energize?

200

What is one way you can dispose your prescription drugs? 

What is:

Take back programs, take them out of their original containers, mix them with undesirable substances, remove labels and hide container

300

These organisms decompose and filter out the carbon components in wastewater

What are bacteria and microbes?

300

The pharmaceutical industry is the discovery, _______, and manufacture of medications and drugs.

What is development?

300

Where is Novartis headquartered?

Where is Switzerland?

300

What is a commonly abused opioid other than fentanyl?

What is Hydrocodone (Vicodin), Codeine, Oxycodone (Percocet, Oxycontin) , Morphine

400

Fish exposed to pharmaceutical compounds exhibit these changes.

What are reproductive abnormalities and behavioral changes?

400

The pharmaceutical industry began in this century

What is the 19th century?

400

What is the product Novartis conducted a case study of to see its carbon emissions?

Dry powdered inhaler

400

What is one pattern that can explain the satisfaction of medication? 

What is: dealing with uncertainty, symbolic representation, reaffirms doctor's knowledge and authority, sense of relief

500

Compounds used in by pharmaceutical companies are _______, or carbon-based compounds

What is organic?

500

Through these pathways, pharmaceuticals administered to cattle can enter the environment.

What are excretion and decomposition?

500

Where is Novartis building six wind and solar parks?

Where is Spain?

500

What is one example of a socioeconomic stressor from the COVID-19 pandemic? 

What is: decline in mental health, anti-social coping mechanisms, demand in drug market, normalization of drugs