Pharmaceutical and personal care product residues in a macrophyte pond-constructed wetland treating wastewater from a university campus: Presence, removal and ecological risk assessment

• Published in: The Science of the total environment Vol. 703; p. 135596
• Main Authors: Guedes-Alonso, Rayco, Montesdeoca-Esponda, Sarah, Herrera-Melián, José A., Rodríguez-Rodríguez, Raquel, Ojeda-González, Zeneida, Landívar-Andrade, Vanessa, Sosa-Ferrera, Zoraida, Santana-Rodríguez, José J.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Netherlands Elsevier B.V 10.02.2020
• Subjects: Constructed wetland; Cosmetics - analysis; Ecological risk; Environmental Monitoring; Hormones; Pharmaceutical Preparations - analysis; Pond; Universities; UV stabilizers; Waste Disposal, Fluid - methods; Waste Water - chemistry; Wastewater; Water Pollutants, Chemical - analysis; Wetlands; Ecological risk; UV stabilizers; Pond; Hormones; Wastewater; Constructed wetland

Pharmaceuticals and personal care products (PPCPs) constitute a group of chemicals of concern because of their potential toxicity when reaching aquatic environments. Wastewaters are one of the main pathways of introduction into the environment of the chemical compounds used in PPCPs because, in most...