Environmental status of an Italian site highly polluted by illegal dumping of industrial wastes: The situation 15 years after the judicial intervention.

Central Italy Industrial waste disposal Lead Mercury POPs Site of national interest

Journal

The Science of the total environment
ISSN: 1879-1026
Titre abrégé: Sci Total Environ
Pays: Netherlands
ID NLM: 0330500

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
25 03 2021
Historique:
received: 30 09 2020
revised: 03 11 2020
accepted: 20 11 2020
pubmed: 29 12 2020
medline: 29 12 2020
entrez: 28 12 2020
Statut: ppublish

Résumé

In 2008 the Italian government classified the Bussi sul Tirino area (Central Italy) as Site of National Interest destined to remediation which, unfortunately, has not yet begun. The decision followed >20 years of illegal dumping of industrial wastes, lasting from 1984 to 2005, that generated the biggest illegal toxic waste disposal site in Europe. The contamination profile of the site was mainly characterized by PCDD/Fs, PCBs, PAHs, chlorinated solvents, Hg, and Pb. Due to the health concern of the population and local authorities, an extensive monitoring and biomonitoring campaign was carried out in 2017-2018, checking the site-specific pollutants in local food (free-range hens' eggs, milk from grazing sheep and goats, wild edible mushrooms, and drinking water), environmental (air and freshwaters) and biological (human urine) matrices. A total of 314 samples were processed, obtaining 3217 analytical data that were compared with regulatory limits, when available, and values reported by international literature. The sum PCDD/Fs and DL-PCBs ranged from 0.24 to 3.6 pg TEQ g

Identifiants

DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.144100 PMID: 33360460
pubmed: 33360460
pii: S0048-9697(20)37631-2
doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.144100
pii:
doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article

Langues

eng

Sous-ensembles de citation

IM

Pagination

144100

Informations de copyright

Copyright © 2020 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts

Declaration of competing interest The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.

Auteurs

Matteo Vitali (M)

Department of Public Health and Infectious Diseases, University of Rome La Sapienza, P.le Aldo Moro, 5, 00185 Rome, Italy. Electronic address: matteo.vitali@uniroma1.it.

Federica Castellani (F)

Department of Public Health and Infectious Diseases, University of Rome La Sapienza, P.le Aldo Moro, 5, 00185 Rome, Italy; Department of Ecological and Biological Sciences, Tuscia University, Largo dell'Università snc, 01100 Viterbo, Italy. Electronic address: federica.castellani@uniroma1.it.

Giorgia Fragassi (G)

Regional Healthcare Agency of Abruzzo, Via Attilio Monti 9, 65127 Pescara, PE, Italy.

Alfonso Mascitelli (A)

Regional Healthcare Agency of Abruzzo, Via Attilio Monti 9, 65127 Pescara, PE, Italy.

Cecilia Martellucci (C)

Department of Biomedical Sciences and Public Health, University of the Marche Region, Via Tronto 10/a, 60020 Torrette di Ancona, AN, Italy.

Gianfranco Diletti (G)

Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale of Abruzzo and Molise "Giuseppe Caporale", via Campo Boario, 64100 Teramo, TE, Italy. Electronic address: g.diletti@izs.it.

Emanuela Scamosci (E)

Environmental Protection Regional Agency of Abruzzo, via Marconi 49, 65126 Pescara, PE, Italy. Electronic address: e.scamosci@artaabruzzo.it.

Maria Luisa Astolfi (ML)

Department of Chemistry, University of Rome La Sapienza, P.le Aldo Moro, 5, 00185 Rome, Italy. Electronic address: marialuisa.astolfi@uniroma1.it.

Leila Fabiani (L)

Department of Life, Health & Environmental Sciences, University of L'Aquila, P.le Salvatore Tommasi 1, 67100 Coppito, L'Aquila, Italy. Electronic address: leila.fabiani@univaq.it.

Riccardo Mastrantonio (R)

Department of Life, Health & Environmental Sciences, University of L'Aquila, P.le Salvatore Tommasi 1, 67100 Coppito, L'Aquila, Italy. Electronic address: riccardo.mastrantonio@graduate.univaq.it.

Carmela Protano (C)

Department of Public Health and Infectious Diseases, University of Rome La Sapienza, P.le Aldo Moro, 5, 00185 Rome, Italy. Electronic address: carmela.protano@uniroma1.it.

Vincenzo Romano Spica (VR)

Department of Movement, Human and Health Sciences, University of Rome "Foro Italico", Piazza Lauro De Bosis 6, 00135 Rome, Italy. Electronic address: vincenzo.romanospica@uniroma4.it.

Lamberto Manzoli (L)

Department of Medical Sciences, University of Ferrara, Via Fossato di Mortara 64B, 44121 Ferrara, FE, Italy. Electronic address: lmanzoli@post.harvard.edu.

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