Waste management health risk assessment: A case study of a solid waste landfill in South Italy |
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| Authors: | E Davoli E Fattore V Paiano A Colombo M Palmiotto AN Rossi M Il Grande R Fanelli |
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| Institution: | 1. Istituto di Ricerche Farmacologiche “Mario Negri”, Environmental Health Sciences Department, Via Giuseppe La Masa 19, 20156 Milano, Italy;2. Progress S.r.l., Via Nicola A. Porpora 147, 20131 Milano, Italy;1. Institute of Environmental Protection – National Research Institute, Krucza 5/11d, 00-548 Warsaw, Poland;2. Warsaw University of Life Sciences, Department of Soil Environment Sciences, Nowoursynowska 159, 02-776 Warsaw, Poland;3. Krakow University of Technology, Chemistry Department, Warszawska 24, 31-155 Krakow, Poland;1. Shell Projects and Technology, Rijswijk, The Netherlands;2. Shell Projects and Technology, Thornton, UK;3. Shell Projects and Technology, Houston, USA;4. Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA;1. School of Environment, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China;2. Department of Environmental Engineering, Technical University of Denmark, Miljoevej, Building 113, 2800Kgs, Lyngby, Denmark |
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| Abstract: | An integrated risk assessment study has been performed in an area within 5 km from a landfill that accepts non hazardous waste. The risk assessment was based on measured emissions and maximum chronic population exposure, for both children and adults, to contaminated air, some foods and soil. The toxic effects assessed were limited to the main known carcinogenic compounds emitted from landfills coming both from landfill gas torch combustion (e.g., dioxins, furans and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, PAHs) and from diffusive emissions (vinyl chloride monomer, VCM). Risk assessment has been performed both for carcinogenic and non-carcinogenic effects. Results indicate that cancer and non-cancer effects risk (hazard index, HI) are largely below the values accepted from the main international agencies (e.g., WHO, US EPA) and national legislation (D.Lgs. 152/2006 and D.Lgs. 4/2008). |
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