Innovator: Öznur Demircan, https://www.linkedin.com/in/%C3%B6-d-67aa90272/
Organisation: Bahçelievler Anatolian high school
Setting of the practice: face to face
Description of the practice:
Rapid population growth, unconscious drug consumption and chemicals that enter all areas of our lives have become a threat as micro-pollutants in the aquatic ecosystem. Pharmaceuticals, steroid hormones, personal care products (PPCP) are the leading micro-pollutants. Ethinyl estradiol hormone drug residues from pharmaceutical wastes cause sex determination in fish, and antidepressant drug residues cause negative fishing behaviors in fish. Scientific research has shown that pharmaceutical residues cause morphological and physiological anomalies in living things in aquatic ecosystems. The deterioration of the ecological balance that begins in aquatic ecosystems will adversely affect all living things in the food chain, and indirectly lead to problems that people may encounter such as soil pollution and the decrease in the quality of agricultural production. In this project, we made inferences with the descriptive inductive analysis and parallel mixed design method converging with the data obtained using quantitative and qualitative data collection tools, by establishing the hypothesis that "recycling of expired or unused drugs positively affects the preservation of ecological balance". Our design products were created by applying design research methods such as engineering design steps, formative evaluation, and inductive analysis with a focus on utility and theory. Our product design was completed using digital application programs and a 3D printer. Our pharmaceutical recycling bins, which we have prepared with a multidisciplinary (ecology, technology, geometry, visual arts) approach, such as raising awareness of the negative effects of pharmaceutical wastes on the ecological balance in the society, minimizing the effects of pharmaceutical wastes that harm the ecological balance and revealing the necessity of preventing global warming with correct waste management. We set the main goals. We foresee the dissemination and development of the project with collaborators such as non-governmental organizations, public administration, foundations and the private sector.
To raise awareness of the society about the harm caused by pharmaceutical wastes to the ecological balance and to enable individuals who make up the society to contribute individually to the preservation of the ecological balance and the prevention of global warming. To minimize the negative effects of pharmaceutical wastes in ecosystems. The aim of our project is to protect the ecological balance as a result of multidisciplinary (STEAM) studies, to design products for medical waste management, to develop these products, to emphasize the importance of waste management strategies in the prevention of global warming and to spread them.In Creality cr6 max 3 D brand printer, the design of the pharmaceutical waste box was prepared in 1/8 scale of the original dimensions. The design pyramid drug waste bin model we prepared has a square base of 17 cm and a pyramid height of 17 cm. The original dimensions of the medicine waste box, which is suitable for use in pharmacies, health centers, hospitals and suitable places in the city, are considered as 136 cm. Due to the fact that the geography we live in is a multicultural cosmopolitan connecting Europe and Asia, the international medical waste logo and the information on the medicine waste box will be placed in the medicine waste box designed. As a result of the qualitative data collection we obtained in the literature review, the Orange color object was preferred because it makes the object ostentatious and the target audience feel important and eliminates the difference between cultures.
By integrating STE(A)M education into the curriculum, a project-based education model has been developed that creates a vision for STEM careers by providing multidisciplinary solutions to existing scientific problems and providing students with 21st century skills.
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