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Introduction: Modeling the Fate of Chemicals in Products in the Total Environment

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Modeling the Fate of Chemicals in Products

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Academic and public interest has been poured into “chemicals in products (CiPs)”, that is, the chemicals of environmental and health concern intentionally added in industrial or consumer goods for additional functions. This chapter gives a comprehensive overview of the fate of CiPs in the “total” environment, that is, a system comprising the anthroposphere (human socioeconomic activities) and the physical environment (the totality of abiotic setting in which organisms and humans live) as two interconnected and interdependent components. Currently, industrial ecologists have well elucidated the anthropospheric fate of products whereas environmental chemists have well elucidated the environmental fate of chemicals. Nevertheless, there is still a need for an integrative, temporally resolved, and mechanistically sound modeling framework for chemicals plus products as an organic whole in the CiP issue.

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Li, L. (2020). Introduction: Modeling the Fate of Chemicals in Products in the Total Environment. In: Modeling the Fate of Chemicals in Products. Springer Theses. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-0579-9_1

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