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Expired and Unwanted Pharmaceuticals: The Hidden Environmental Legacy of COVID-19

2022-02-12

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While concerns have been raised on the discharge of sanitary wastes containing antiviral drugs and metabolites, which are often inadequately treated at municipal wastewater treatment plants and pose threats to the receiving aquatic environments, a wider and potentially more far-reaching issue has been overlooked. The enormous quantities of pharmaceuticals dispensed to or purchased by the general public that are le...

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DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.4032172

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