{"id":8020,"date":"2020-02-12T08:10:28","date_gmt":"2020-02-12T05:10:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=8020"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:51","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:51","slug":"medical-waste-offers-insights-into-south-africas-use-of-pharmaceuticals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2020\/02\/12\/medical-waste-offers-insights-into-south-africas-use-of-pharmaceuticals\/","title":{"rendered":"Medical Waste Offers Insights Into South Africa\u2019s Use Of Pharmaceuticals"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By Rebecca Hodes<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Much of what we know about human history comes from studying things that have been discarded. The&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thoughtco.com\/midden-an-archaeological-garbage-dump-171806\">archaeology of dumpsites and middens<\/a>&nbsp;has long informed us about societies and their pasts. This has included how people survived and sustained themselves, what they gathered, made, amassed and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1992\/07\/05\/books\/we-are-what-we-throw-away.html\">discarded<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Histories of rubbish have also shown that beliefs about&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/iwaponline.com\/washdev\/article\/7\/2\/163\/30154\/History-of-sanitation-and-hygiene-technologies-in\">sanitation<\/a>, and what makes for a clean environment, change. These changes are, in turn, influenced by developments in technology, forms of governance, and consumer norms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I conducted a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/full\/10.1080\/02582473.2019.1668835\">study<\/a>&nbsp;on an archive of medical materials, collected over three years from public waste sites around South Africa\u2019s Eastern Cape. What I refer to as \u2018pharmatrash\u2019 serves as a proxy for which medicines were provided or purchased, consumed, and then discarded.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/medical-waste-offers-insights-into-south-africas-use-of-pharmaceuticals-130419\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Rebecca Hodes Much of what we know about human history comes from studying things that have been discarded. The&nbsp;archaeology of dumpsites and middens&nbsp;has long informed us about societies and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8021,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[1114,1258],"class_list":["post-8020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news","tag-phamarcies","tag-south-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8020\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}