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Heterogenous Cleaning Factory
Thanks to medicinal
advances, each year, drug consumption increases to treat the population.
BUT
Downside drugs aren’t totally metabolized and accumulate gradually in wastewater
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Leading to...
Antibiotic resistance
In vitro human cell death
Alter ecosystemes
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Most of these studies have been performed under countries that already have a wastewater treatment program.
Pharmaceuticals pollution is underated.
Some paper, says that if no mitigation action is taken, this environmental threat will increase up to 65% by 2050 for some drugs.