Human exposure to environmental pollutants after a tire landfill fire in Spain: Health risks

Nadal, Martí; Rovira, Joaquim; Díaz-Ferrero, Jordi; Schuhmacher, Marta; Domingo, José L.

doi:10.1016/j.envint.2016.10.016

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“…For each tonne of MSW that is incinerated, 15-40 kg of hazardous waste is produced, requiring further treatment [83,85,96,114,118,139,195]. Particular attention has been focused on the emissions of dioxins and furans [43,44,112,130,205,206], which are more toxic and costlier to control than other pollutants. Indeed, waste incineration is regarded as one of the greatest contributors to the release of dioxins into the environment [126,207].…”

Section: Energy Recovery By Incinerationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…But of equally serious concern are the emissions of highly toxic inorganics and organic compounds that occur in the landfill gas (LFG), of which several are also ozone-depleting substaces [83,86]. These include mercury vapour [199,171], highly toxic per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances [131], other toxic volatile organics [130] and malodorous hydrogen sulfide and mercaptans [55,100]. Dioxins have also been recorded among the LFG emissions [111,155]; their levels shoot up to several thousand times higher if some part of the landfill contents happens to catch fire [60,130].…”

Section: Capture and Utilization Of Landfill Gasmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…These include mercury vapour [199,171], highly toxic per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances [131], other toxic volatile organics [130] and malodorous hydrogen sulfide and mercaptans [55,100]. Dioxins have also been recorded among the LFG emissions [111,155]; their levels shoot up to several thousand times higher if some part of the landfill contents happens to catch fire [60,130]. It has also been found that brominated flame retardants-which are common in landfills-can undergo photolytic degradation on the landfill surface to generate dioxin-like compounds [167,168].…”

Section: Capture and Utilization Of Landfill Gasmentioning

confidence: 99%

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The myth and the reality of energy recovery from municipal solid waste

Abbasi

2018

Energ Sustain Soc

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Background: Any manner of development can be sustainable only if the waste generated by it is not allowed to accumulate but is fully reused/recycled/recovered. Among the strategies to attain this goal have been the attempts to recover energy from municipal solid waste (MSW). About 60% of MSW is carbonaceous, consisting of materials which can either be biodegraded into fuels like methane or incinerated, thereby generating utilizable energy. MSW also contains several components-like metallic scrap and glass pieces-which can be reused or recycled, thereby achieving energy conservation. Given these attributes, MSW appears to be a potential source of energy and resources. Indeed, this belief that MSW is usable if only we try sincerely enough to do so prompts most of us to keep generating much more MSW than is warranted. But how realizable really is the energy potential of MSW? What perils loom into view when we actually set out to utilize MSW as an energy source? The present study addresses these crucially important questions. Methods: The work is based on a critical content analysis of the prior art. Results: The generation of MSW has consistently outpaced the world's efforts to dispose of it cleanly, and the energy (and material) recovery from MSW is easier said than done. In most instances, what is technically feasible is economically unfeasible. And what is economically feasible-such as setting the waste on fire as is often done in developing countries-is exceedingly harmful to the environment and the human health. Measures such as sanitary landfilling and incineration create as many new problems as the old ones they solve. Moreover, despite the use of these less-than-adequate technologies, a major portion of MSW generated in the world lies untreated. Conclusions: As the MSW output is expected to double by 2025, this situation is only set to become worse. Rising tides of E-waste would compound the problem even further. Hence, enormous stress should be put on the reduction of MSW generation by controlling wanton consumerism and wastage, rather than continuing with it in the false hope that technology will soon provide a magical solution and eliminate the problem.

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Section: Energy Recovery By Incinerationmentioning

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Section: Capture and Utilization Of Landfill Gasmentioning

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Section: Capture and Utilization Of Landfill Gasmentioning

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The myth and the reality of energy recovery from municipal solid waste

Abbasi

2018

Energ Sustain Soc

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“…De ahí, el aumento del riesgo ambiental y a la salud debido a la toxicidad y persistencia de metales pesados tales como Cr (VI), Hg+,Ni 2 O 3 , CuO, Cd, entre otros. [2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12]. En el caso específico del Cr (VI), este se comporta como un elemento tóxico con efectos nocivos, que penetra rápidamente cualquier vía de exposición hasta llegar a los glóbulos rojos, híga-do, bazo, riñón, tejidos blandos y huesos afectando principalmente sistemas digestivo, respiratorio, urinario y la piel [2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13].…”

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Evaluación De Residuos Agroindustriales Como Biofiltros: Remoción De Cr (Vi) en Efluentes De Curtiembres Sintéticos

Martínez¹,

Peña

Erazo

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BSAA

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RESUMEN Se estima que el 85% de los insumos químicos usados por las industrias de curtiembres europeas para producir 1000 kg de cuero crudo se vierten a los afluentes de recurso hídrico en forma de contaminantes, entre ellos el Cromo VI (Cr (VI)) ABSTRACT In order to produce 1000 kg of leather, it is estimated of 85% of chemical input, used by European tanning plants, is discharged as contaminant. Among of them, Cr (VI), this is a toxic compound of easy adsorption. In that sense, the present work is focused on the removal of Cr (VI) in synthetic solution prepared from Cr (VI) estimated concentration found in wastewater sample discharged by tanning industries (Cr (VI): 32,6 mg/kg). Thus, five filters packed with orange (Citrus sinensis) and plantain (Musa AAB) peels were used in laboratory scale PALABRAS CLAVE:Biofiltro, Cromo VI, Cáscaras de plátano (Musa AAB) y naranja (Citrus sinensis), Metales pesados.

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“…In particular the health sector is attracting more workers with skills in environmental health due to the large burden of disease and mortality caused by environmental pollutants [3][4][5]. Moreover, recent chemical incidents (release of chemical hazards) such as the fire affecting a large tire landfill in Toledo (Spain, 2016) [6] has highlighted the importance of training future health care professionals how to respond to these events due to their long-term adverse effects on human health. Environmental toxicology is a multidisciplinary field of science concerned with the assessment of the harmful effects of chemical, biological and physical agents in the environment on living organisms.…”

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Importance of Teaching Environmental Contamination and Decontamination in Human Health Science Degrees

Pena-Fernandez¹,

Lobo-Bedmar²,

Peña³

2017

ICERI Proceedings

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A novel short training in environmental toxicology, risk assessment and decontamination was created in the specialty of "Industrial Pharmacy and Galenic" at the University of Alcalá (UAH, Spain) in 2013-14 to provide postgraduate pharmacists with basic skills, tools and knowledge to decontaminate environments affected by chemical accidents. These students completed a highly specialised research-led workshop (training) to decontaminate an open water system affected by a chemical industry spill accident using the "UK Recovery Handbook for Chemical Incidents" (UKRHCI; [1]). The UKRHCI has been developed by Public Health England (PHE) and includes innovative methodology to select appropriate decontamination options and techniques to tackle environments impacted by chemicals. This training was modified in 2015/16 to introduce the innovative PHE virtual resource "Chemical Recovery Navigation Tool" (CRNT; [2]) that follows the same methodology and resources described in the UKRHCI. Comprehensive student feedback, including a SWOT analysis (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats), was collected to investigate the changes implemented in our training. The modifications undertaken raised high levels of student satisfaction. Briefly, 100% students reported that the CRNT facilitated the understanding of the training and the selection of recovery options to respond to the case scenario proposed. Students described as a strength that the workshop was very interesting, interactive and novel and its execution in English (as the training was delivered at the Spanish university UAH). The possibility of working in environmental toxicology and decontamination was described as an opportunity. Students highlighted as weaknesses and threat its low relation with the pharmaceutical industry and brief duration (5 hours). This academic course (2016/17), a comprehensive modification has been undertaken at De Montfort University (DMU, UK) to adapt this novel training to a range of different human health science programmes, including master's students attending the MSc. Advanced Biomedical Science programme at DMU and undergraduate Pharmacy students at the University of San Pablo CEU (USP-CEU, Spain). An Erasmus+ mobility grant for academics was satisfactorily used to validate this short training at USP-CEU earlier in 2017. A specific feedback-questionnaire distributed in both academic arenas provided the following results: 85.7% (USP-CEU) and 50% (DMU) neither agree nor disagree with a statement about enjoyment of the workshop provided. 83% of the master's students (DMU) and 86% of undergraduate students (USP-CEU) reported that they learnt how to select appropriate recovery options to decontaminate the open water and urban environments proposed. Finally, 42.9% (57.1% neither agree nor disagree) and 83% of students recommended the incorporation of more, similar training in each programme respectively (USP-CEU and DMU). The short training described in this paper has shown to be effective in improving students' knowledge and s...

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Human exposure to environmental pollutants after a tire landfill fire in Spain: Health risks

Cited by 95 publications

References 28 publications

The myth and the reality of energy recovery from municipal solid waste

The myth and the reality of energy recovery from municipal solid waste

Evaluación De Residuos Agroindustriales Como Biofiltros: Remoción De Cr (Vi) en Efluentes De Curtiembres Sintéticos

Importance of Teaching Environmental Contamination and Decontamination in Human Health Science Degrees

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