Pair call for public discourse on treating wastewater contaminated with birth control pill chemicals
Thursday, May 24, 2012 - 08:50
in Health & Medicine
(Phys.org) -- As people go about their daily lives, its easy to overlook the impact their lifestyle has on the environment. Resources are used and as a result of their use, certain elements are placed back into the environment, some of which many people may not even think about. One of these is what happens to chemicals we take in after our bodies finish with them? Some are breathed into the air though most are flushed down the toilet after being deposited into our feces and urine. Workers at waste treatment facilities could point out chemical ingredients found in shampoos, for example, or those used in the production of food for another and most particularly drugs that we take to keep our various ailments at bay.