Drug residues in wastewater: Private households mainly responsible

Most drug residues discharged to wastewater come from private households. As contributors of pollution by Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (APIs), health establishments, such as hospitals, psychiatric and nursing facilities are hardly worth mentioning. They merely discharge a small amount, and only at local level, of these significant contaminating substances to wastewater. These are the findings, which the sustainability researchers at Leuphana University of Lüneburg in collaboration with the Ortenau Klinikum at Offenburg-Gengenbach, have come to and recently published in the journal Environment International.

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