Journal of Environmental Analytical Chemistry

Department of Chemistry and Center for Nano Science, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Geschwister, Germany

Publications

• Mini Review   
  Garbage In, Garbage Out: Our Industrial Progress′s Contribution to Wastewater Degeneration
  Author(s): Heinz Langhals*
  
  Natural water sources are frequently contaminated by pernicious anthropogenic practises and municipal wastewater discharges containing xenobiotic pollutants and their sometimes more toxic degradation products, or both. Although wastewater is regarded as both a resource and a problem, as explained in this review, it is troubling that, while the global village is still grappling with determining the mode of proper handling, subsequent discharge, and regulation of already established aromatic contaminants in wastewater, some more aggressive, stealthy, and sinister groups of compounds emerge. It is ironic that the majority of these compounds are 'go-to' consumables in our current society and have been suspected of posing a number of health risks to the aquatic ecosystem... Read More»
  DOI: 10.37421/2380-2391.2022.9.387

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