Abstract
Medicines have a large carbon footprint, and the aim of this research was to identify ways to reduce the carbon footprint of medicines in hospital pharmacy departments. Factors affecting pharmacists' and pharmacy technicians' engagement with pro-environmental behaviours regarding medicines' disposal in Australian and UK hospitals were explored. Environmental attitudes, environmental knowledge, environmental concern, and organisational factors that either help or prevent appropriate disposal of unwanted medicines and their packaging were investigated. Currently, many pharmacists believe medicines' disposal is outside their current scope of practice. Organisation-wide environmental education programs are needed to increase awareness and improve behaviours.
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