Emerging environmental health risks associated with the land application of biosolids: a scoping review

Abstract Background Over 40% of the six million dry metric tons of sewage sludge, often referred to as biosolids, produced annually in the United States is land applied. Biosolids serve as a sink for emerging pollutants which can be toxic and persist in the environment, yet their fate after land app...

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Main Authors: Elizabeth A. Pozzebon, Lars Seifert
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2023-08-01
Series:Environmental Health
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s12940-023-01008-4