[HTML][HTML] Occurrence of pharmaceuticals and their metabolites in sewage sludge and soil: A review on their distribution and environmental risk assessment

C Mejias, J Martín, JL Santos, I Aparicio… - Trends in Environmental …, 2021 - Elsevier
The recycling and recovery of organic matter and nutrients from sewage sludge for
application in agricultural soils is gaining interest, while the presence of pharmaceutically …

Critical review on negative emerging contaminant removal efficiency of wastewater treatment systems: concept, consistency and consequences

M Kumar, J Ngasepam, K Dhangar, J Mahlknecht… - Bioresource …, 2022 - Elsevier
Emerging contaminants (ECs) are not completely removed by wastewater treatment owing
to their capabilities of making complexes, toxic derivatives, byproduct formation, and …

Assessment of a wide array of organic micropollutants of emerging concern in wastewater treatment plants in Greece: Occurrence, removals, mass loading and …

A Ofrydopoulou, C Nannou, E Evgenidou… - Science of the Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
Exploring the contamination profile of multi-class emerging contaminants (ECs) in
wastewater is highly desirable. To this end, the occurrence, removal, mass loading and risks …

Antiviral drugs in wastewater are on the rise as emerging contaminants: A comprehensive review of spatiotemporal characteristics, removal technologies and …

R Wang, J Luo, C Li, J Chen, N Zhu - Journal of Hazardous Materials, 2023 - Elsevier
Antiviral drugs (ATVs) are widely used to treat illnesses caused by viruses. Particularly,
ATVs were consumed in such large quantities during the pandemic that high concentrations …

Pharmaceutical pollution of hospital effluents and municipal wastewaters of Eastern Canada

MA Vaudreuil, SV Duy, G Munoz, S Sauvé - Science of the Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
Quantification of drugs residues in wastewaters of different sources could help better
understand contamination pathways, eventually leading to effluent regulation. However …

Occurrence, removal and mass loads of antiviral drugs in seven wastewater treatment plants with various treatment processes

L Yao, ZY Chen, WY Dou, ZK Yao, XC Duan, ZF Chen… - Water research, 2021 - Elsevier
Antiviral drugs are among the most common and important classes of pharmaceuticals to
treat viral infections, however their continuous emission and persistence in the receiving …

[HTML][HTML] Environmental remediation using nanomaterial as adsorbents for emerging micropollutants

DM Nzilu, ES Madivoli, D sujee Makhanu… - Environmental …, 2023 - Elsevier
Water shortage and scarcity are issues of global concern. Water pollution caused by organic
micropollutants further aggravates the problem, by rendering an already scarce resource …

Assessment of selected pharmaceuticals in Riyadh wastewater treatment plants, Saudi Arabia: Mass loadings, seasonal variations, removal efficiency and …

OA Alharbi, E Jarvis, A Galani, NS Thomaidis… - Science of The Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
Despite increasing interest in pharmaceutical emissions worldwide, studies of
environmental contamination with pharmaceuticals arising from wastewater discharges in …

Toxicity evaluation and effect-based identification of chlorine disinfection products of the Anti-COVID-19 drug chloroquine phosphate

S Hu, S Fang, J Zhao, G Wang, W Qi… - Environmental …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Antiviral transformation products (TPs) generated during wastewater treatment are an
environmental concern, as their discharge, in considerable amounts, into natural waters …

Occurrence and risk assessment of antibiotic residues in sewage sludge of two Nigerian hospital wastewater treatment plants

AS Ajibola, C Zwiener - Water, Air, & Soil Pollution, 2022 - Springer
Antibiotic residues in sewage sludge can present detrimental environmental effects due to
sewage sludge application onto soils for agricultural purposes. Reports on the occurrence of …