Dobaradaran, S and Schmidt, T.C and Lorenzo-Parodi, N and Kaziur-Cegla, W and Jochmann, M.A and Nabipour, I and Lutze, H.V and Telgheder, U (2020) Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) leachates from cigarette butts into water. Environmental Pollution, 259. ISSN 02697491
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Cigarette butts (CBs) are the most common littered items in the environment and may contain high amounts of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) from incomplete tobacco leave burning. The potential relevance of PAHs stemming from CBs for aquatic systems remain unclear since to date there is no systematic study on PAHs leaching from CBs. Therefore, in this study the leaching concentrations of 16 EPA-PAHs (except benzo(ghi)perylene) in 3 different types of water were measured. The concentrations of ΣPAHs leachates from 4 h to 21 days ranged from 3.9 to 5.7, 3.3–5.5, and 3.0–5.0 μg L−1 for deionized, tap, and river waters, respectively. For all contact times, there were no substantial differences of the leachate concentrations of PAHs among different water types. Lighter PAHs had the highest concentrations among the detected PAHs and they were detected in the leachates already after 4 h. Concentrations of indeno(1,2,3-cd)pyrene, and dibenz(a,h)anthracene were below the limit of detection in all water samples at different contact times. At all contact times naphthalene and fluorene had the highest concentrations among the studied PAHs. Tap and river water samples with addition of sodium azide as chemical preservative contained significantly higher concentration of ΣPAHs. Our leaching data showed that leached concentrations of PAHs exceeded the Water Framework Directive (WFD) standards and considering the number of CBs annually littered this may pose a risk to aquatic organisms and potentially also humans.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Cigarette butts European environmental quality standards Fluorene Naphthalene PAHs leachate |
| Subjects: | R Medicine > Environmental Health |
| Divisions: | Research Center |
| Depositing User: | خدیجه شبانکاره |
| Date Deposited: | 27 Dec 2020 07:05 |
| Last Modified: | 27 Dec 2020 07:05 |
| URI: | http://eprints.bpums.ac.ir/id/eprint/9165 |
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