The extent of multimedia partitioning of organic chemicals

Travis, Curtis C.; Dennison, John W.; Arms, Angela D.

doi:10.1016/0045-6535(87)90115-9

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“…It is well established that once pollutants enter the environment, they transfer throughout all media, resulting in wide distribution in the environment and subsequent human exposure from multiple media. The reliance on single-medium exposures to regulate toxic pollutants is insufficient, especially because multimedia exposures are the rule and not the exception (32).…”

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Dioxin, dioxin everywhere

Travis¹,

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Silbergeld³

1989

Environ. Sci. Technol.

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Section: Sources Of Environmental Inputmentioning

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Silbergeld³

1989

Environ. Sci. Technol.

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“…In addition, some pollution control measures simply transfer the pollutant source term to another medium where the exposure and susceptibility of people and other receptors to pollutants are different [4][5][6] and, perhaps, worse. Because of these interrelationships between different media, a multimedia approach focusing on the entire environmental system as a source of risk should be used to select risk management strategies.…”

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“…(1/4/1) [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9] Note: The chemical combinations are as defined previously; the contaminated food fraction is either T (for a typical resident) or F (for a farmer); the objectives are given as E1-E3, as defined previously. M means that the multimedia approach was used.…”

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The Use of a Multimedia Risk Analysis Approach in Designing Waste Management Strategies

Crawford‐Brown

2001

Journal of the Air & Waste Management Association

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A pollution source may release residuals to any of several environmental media, depending on the process design and control strategies. These residuals then are subject to transfer, transport, and transformation within the interconnected compartments of the environmental system. The exposure and susceptibility of people and other receptors to pollutants are different in these various media, and so the risks imposed will vary according to the fate of the pollutants in the system. Because of interactions between compartments in the system, a single-medium approach to environmental management that mitigates problems in one environmental medium at a time independently of risks through other media may not minimize the aggregate risk a receptor receives from all pathways. Alternatively, a multimedia approach advocates focusing on the full environmental system providing pathways for exposure and selecting risk management strategies based on minimization of the aggregate and cumulative risk from all pathways and all compounds. This study combines multimedia risk analysis and an optimization framework to examine a methodology for selecting waste treatment/disposal and pollution control measures, applies the methodology to a sludge management decision problem, and considers the implications for continued use of single-medium analyses. IMPLICATIONSThis study demonstrates that traditional approaches to identifying optimal waste management strategies with respect to risk goals may not only incorrectly identify facilities as posing acceptable risk, but may also fail to locate the optimal strategy within the set of feasible options. Approaches based in aggregate and cumulative risk assessment are, therefore, warranted despite the increased complexity of analysis.

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Transport und Verbleib organischer Verbindungen im globalen Rahmen

Ballschmiter

1992

Angewandte Chemie

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The extent of multimedia partitioning of organic chemicals

Cited by 10 publications

References 8 publications

Dioxin, dioxin everywhere

Dioxin, dioxin everywhere

The Use of a Multimedia Risk Analysis Approach in Designing Waste Management Strategies

Transport und Verbleib organischer Verbindungen im globalen Rahmen

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