Impact of COVID19 restrictions on organic micropollutants in wastewater treatment plants and human consumption rates.

ABSTRACT: COVID19 pandemic and the consequent restrictions to constrain SARS-CoV-2 spreading produced several impacts on the worldwide population. The present study focused on 10 Organic Micropollutants (illicit drugs, pharmaceuticals including some antibiotics and caffeine) and aimed to assess: (1) if COVID19 pandemic restrictions affected the load of those contaminants released into the sewage network and consequently the removal achieved by the Wastewater Treatment Plants; (2) if pursuant to the COVID19 pandemic, there was a change in population consumption rates of the same compounds through the wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE) approach. Two full-scale wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) located in Central Italy were chosen as case studies, which are distinguished by different characteristics

SUBMITTER: Di Marcantonio C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8668233 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature