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CATEGORY: Environment
LOCATION: Cyprus
START/END: 2013
CLIENT: ERM GmbH
ORIGIN OF FUNDING: ERM GmbH
Type of Services
The necessary information was compiled by desktop research, telephone interviews with stakeholders involved, as well as the compilation and exchange of a questionnaire, between all key stakeholders involved.
Staff Provided:
Mrs Evie Litou – Project Director
Ms Eleni Avramidi – Key expert
Description
The European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations (EFPIA) commissioned a survey in 2007 in 27 EU Member States and Norway to determine how the collection systems for household waste and unused/ expired medicinal products were being implemented.
Building on the findings of that survey, a multi-national pharmaceutical firm seeked to gain a better understanding of the situation with regards to the collection and disposal of household waste and unused/ expired medicinal products in Cyprus, in order to minimize business risks which could be associated with weaknesses in the area of its unused/ expired medicinal products management.
The overall objective of this project was to compile information to the following topics:
- Ways of collection and disposal for household waste and unused/expired medicines;
- Legal requirements on collection and disposal of household waste and unused/expired medicines;
- Available schemes (voluntary, mandatory or being developed) for the collection and disposal of unused/expired medicines in Cyprus and potential take-back or collections schemes;
- Organisation and financing methods of take-back schemes;
- Reason for success and failure of take-back schemes;
- Stakeholders involved in the take-back schemes;
- Future policy initiatives and legislations relevant to waste disposal and the take back of medicinal products.
