Landfill leachate as a mirror of today's disposable society: Pharmaceuticals and other contaminants of emerging concern in final leachate from landfills in the conterminous United States

Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 906-918

  Masoner, Jason R ^a   Kolpin, Dana W ^a   Furlong, Edward T ^a   Cozzarelli, Isabelle M ^a   Gray, James L ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Contaminants of emerging concern; Landfill leachate; Landfills; Pharmaceuticals

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOLS; ANESTHETICS; CHEMICALS; DRUG PRODUCTS; ENDOCRINOLOGY; GROUNDWATER; HORMONES; INDUSTRIAL CHEMICALS; LAND FILL; LIPIDS; PHENOLS; STEROID HORMONES; WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

CONTAMINANTS OF EMERGING CONCERNS; HOUSEHOLD CHEMICALS; LANDFILL LEACHATES; LOCAL ANESTHETICS; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; TREATMENT PROCESS; UNLINED LANDFILLS; WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANTS;

LEACHATE TREATMENT;

4,4' ISOPROPYLIDENEDIPHENOL; CARBAMAZEPINE; CARISOPRODOL; COTININE; CUMENE; DIETHYLTOLUAMIDE; DIMPYLATE; DOMESTIC CHEMICAL; ESTRADIOL; GROUND WATER; HORMONE DERIVATIVE; INDUSTRIAL CHEMICAL; ISOBORNEOL; LIDOCAINE; METFORMIN; NICOTINE; OSELTAMIVIR; PENCICLOVIR; PENTACHLOROPHENOL; PHYTOSTEROL; PLASTIC; PREDNISOLONE; PREDNISONE; RALOXIFENE; SITOSTEROL; STEROID HORMONE; STEROL; SULFAMETHIZOLE; TETRACHLOROETHYLENE; VALACICLOVIR; DRUG; WASTE WATER; WATER POLLUTANT;

CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DRUG; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; LANDFILL; LEACHATE; STEROID; WASTEWATER; WATER TREATMENT;

ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); DISPOSABLE EQUIPMENT; GEOCHEMISTRY; LANDFILL LEACHATE; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MASS FRAGMENTOGRAPHY; PAPER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEWER; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY; UNITED STATES; ANALYSIS; CHEMISTRY; GEOGRAPHY; WASTE DISPOSAL FACILITY; WASTE WATER; WATER POLLUTANT;

UNITED STATES;

HEXAPODA;

GEOGRAPHY; GROUNDWATER; PHARMACEUTICAL PREPARATIONS; UNITED STATES; WASTE DISPOSAL FACILITIES; WASTE WATER; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EID: 84948164758     PISSN: 07307268     EISSN: 15528618     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/etc.3219     Document Type: Article

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