Ecotoxicological impact

Flaherty B, Paxeus N, Lo Giudice R, Pollio A, Garric J (2003) Ecotoxicological impact of pharmaceuticals found in treated wastewaters study of carbamazepine, clofibric acid, and diclofenac. Ecotoxicol Environ Saf 55 359-370... 

Andersson H, Westerdahl J, Rahmberg M, Rydberg T (2011) Ecotoxicological impacts of emissions of additives in the societal stock of plastic products assessed using QSAR based interim USEtox characterisation factors. Manuscript... 

Rahmberg M, Andersson H, Westerdahl J, Rydberg T, Andersson PL (2012) Towards QSAR based USEtox characterisation factors for as-sessing ecotoxicological impacts of emissions from plastic additives. Extended abstract, RISKCYCLE conference, Dresden, May 2012... 

Ternes, T., and R.-D. Wilken, Eds., Drugs and Hormones as Pollutants of the Aquatic Environment Determination and Ecotoxicological Impacts, Elsevier, Lausanne, Switzerland, 1999. 

Tanabe, S., Iwata, H., Tatsukawa, R., 1994. Global contamination by persistent organo-chlorines and their ecotoxicological impacts in marine mammals. Sci. Total Environ. 154, 163-177. 

A comparison of the concentration of PCBs and OCPs in Singapore s coastal marine sediments with the sediment quality guideline specified by the USEPA (1997) and the Canadian Council of Ministers of the Environment (CCME, 2002) (Table 15.8), and comparison with levels of contaminants reported from other locations in Asia, Singapore s marine sediments can be classified as moderately contaminated with probable ecotoxicological impacts to marine organisms. 

Priha, M.H. (1996) Ecotoxicological impacts of pulp mill effluents in Finland, in M.R. Servos, K.R. Munkittrick, J.H. Carey and G.J. Van Der Kraak (eds.), Environmental Fate and Effects of Pulp and Paper Mill Effluents, St- Lucie Press, Delray Beach, FL, pp. 63 7-650. 

Huijbregts MAJ, van de Meent D, Goedkoop M, Spriensma R. 2002. Ecotoxicological impacts in life cycle assessment. In Posthuma L, Suter GW, Traas TP, editors. Species sensitivity distributions in ecotoxicology. Boca Raton (FL) Lewis Publishers, p 421-436. 

The sustainable use of military installations for training and testing requires the development of environmental quality criteria that can be consistently applied in different countries to gauge the ecotoxicological impacts of these operations. To overcome jurisdictional limitations of Eco-SSL and ESI, developed for U.S. Superfund sites and Canadian DND sites, respectively, and to make the Eco-SSL scientific approach useful internationally, the Eco-SSL methodology was applied for developing a set of ETVs for several explosives and related soil contaminants. This chapter... 

After a few years of DDT application however, resistant anopheles mosquitoes started to emerge in El Salvador, Mexico, India and elsewhere. That would not remain the only concern this once versatile pesticide caused. The marine biologist Rachel Carson (1907-1964) wrote in 1962 three articles in the New Yorker magazine, which were then also published in book form, entitled Silent Spring , where she warned of the dangerous ecotoxicological impact DDT and some other agrochemicals have when they are used uncontrolled and... 

Tokiwa Y, Suzuki T (1977) Hydrolysis of polyesters by lipases. Nature 270 76—78 Tuominen J, Kylma J, Kapanen A et al (2002) Biodegradatirai of lactic acid based polymers under controlled composting conditions and evaluation of the ecotoxicological impact. Biomacromolecules 3 445 55... 

Witt U et al. (2001) Biodegradation of aliphatic-aromatic copolyesters evaluation of the final biodegradability and ecotoxicological impact of degradation intermediates. Chemosphere 44 289-299. 

The ecotoxicological impact of lactic acid-based polymers was evaluated by biotests, i.e. by the Flash test, measuring the inhibition of light production of Vibrio fisheri, and by plant growth tests with cress, radish, and barley [16]. Poly(lactic acid)s, poly(esterurethane)s... 

Limited amount of work has been published on ecotoxicological impact of degradable polyesters and the environmental toxicity of... 

Once the extracellular polymer intermediates released during biodegradation have been identified, definition of their fate and behaviour in the environment becomes necessary for the evaluation of their ecotoxicological impact. As explained in the introduction, for the creation of an evaluation scheme suitable for biodegradation intermediates, the European Regulation REACH has been taken as a reference. 

Based on environmental partitioning and the bioconcentration potential, the ecotoxicological impact of the substance is assessed on the relevant compartment (aquatic or terrestrial), for the most relevant period of time (short or long term), by observing acute and/or chronic effects. 

Incineration and landfill, as additional treatment techniques for residual waste, should be mentioned for completeness. The content of pollutants and harmful substances in residual waste is almost always determined by waste fractions other than biodegradable materials. Therefore, the established rnles for incineration and landfill cover biodegradable polymers in detail additional considerations of the ecotoxicological impact are not needed. 

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