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Pollution of hazardous substances in industrial construction and demolition wastes and their multi-path risk within an abandoned pesticide manufacturing plant

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Exploration of heavy metals and organic pollutants, their leaching capacity along with health and environmental risks in contaminated industrial construction and demolition waste (ICDW) within a pesticide manufacturing plant were investigated. A maximum content of 90.8 mg•kg–1 Cd was found present in the wastes, which might originate from phosphorus rocks and industrial sulfuric acid used in pesticide production processes. An average concentration of 979.8 mg•kg–1 dichlorovos and other 11 organophosphorus pesticide were also detected. Relatively high leaching rates of around 4.14‰were obtained from laboratory simulated ICDW using both glacial acetic acid-sodium hydroxide and deionized water. Pesticide pollutants had the strongest tendency to retaining on dry bricks (leaching rate 1.68‰) compared to mortar-coatings, etc. due to their different physical characteristics and octanol-water partioning coefficient. Mobility of pesticide from on-site ICDW by water was spatially correlated to waste types, process sections and human activities, with a flux of leaching rate between 5.9‰ to 27.4%. Risk-based corrective action (RBCA) model was used to simulate the risk of contaminated ICDW debris randomly scattered. Oral and dermal ingestion amount by local workers was 9.8 × 10–3 and 1.9 × 10–2 mg•(kg•d)–1, respectively. Potential leaching risk to aquatic systems exceeded the limit for nearly 75% waste. Environmental and health risk exceedance was found in most ICDW, while the risk value of the most severely contaminated brick waste was 660 times beyond critical level. Implications for waste management involving construction and deconstruction work, waste transferring and regulation supplying were also provided.

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The funding of this study was provided by the Public Interest Program of the Chinese Ministry of Environmental Protection (No. 201309025) and the Beautiful Tianjin Major Project (No. 14ZCDGSF00033).

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  1. The State Key Laboratory of Pollution Control and Resource Reuse, Tongji University, Shanghai, 200092, China

    Sheng Huang, Yanqiu Sun, Xiaofeng Gao, Tian Xie & Youcai Zhao

  2. Shanghai Chengpei Enterprise Management Consulting Co., Ltd., Shanghai, 200232, China

    Xin Zhao

  3. Tianjin Academy of Environmental Sciences, Tianjin, 300191, China

    Jianli Ma

  4. Debin Environmental Protection and Technology Holding Co., Ltd., Shanghai, 200092, China

    Dongsheng Xu

  5. Shanghai Design Institute in Environmental Sanitary Engineering, Shanghai, 200092, China

    Yi Yu

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Huang, S., Zhao, X., Sun, Y. et al. Pollution of hazardous substances in industrial construction and demolition wastes and their multi-path risk within an abandoned pesticide manufacturing plant. Front. Environ. Sci. Eng. 11, 12 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11783-017-0901-2

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