PMID- 38462011
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20240403
LR  - 20240403
IS  - 1879-1026 (Electronic)
IS  - 0048-9697 (Linking)
VI  - 924
DP  - 2024 May 10
TI  - Contamination of aquatic ecosystems by persistent organic pollutants (POPs) 
      originating from landfills in Canada and the United States: A rapid scoping 
      review.
PG  - 171490
LID - S0048-9697(24)01631-0 [pii]
LID - 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.171490 [doi]
AB  - Persistent organic pollutants (POPs) are organic chemical substances that 
      threaten human health and the planet's ecosystems due to their toxicity and their 
      ability to remain intact for a long time, wide distribution throughout the 
      environment, and accumulation and magnification in living organisms through the 
      food chain. Discarded products from landfills and dumpsites are potential sources 
      of POPs due to their persistence for several decades and constant release to 
      surrounding environment. POPs in aquatic systems signal input predominantly from 
      landfills, wastewater treatment plants, sewage, and urban runoff, suggesting a 
      research gap to guide policies to address these unabated releases. This scoping 
      review aims to rapidly identify the key concepts underpinning the containment, 
      translation, and migration of POPs in Canadian and US landfill leachate. The 
      review targeted multidisciplinary perspectives on the topic and spanned forensic 
      biology, environmental sciences, chemistry, and geology. Contaminated municipal 
      solid waste (MSW) landfill characteristics, as reported by government agencies in 
      Canada and the US, were synthesized and harmonized to illustrate the geographical 
      scope of MSW landfills releasing POPs into the surrounding environment. The 
      knowledge and data gaps summarized in this study highlight the need to address 
      the inadvertent release of POPs from Canadian and US landfills, particularly in 
      consideration of dated and degrading landfill infrastructure, the proximity of 
      marginalized people, and the implications of climate change on the countries' 
      more vulnerable landscapes. This review is applicable to the development of 
      future studies that aim to guide environmental protective policies.
CI  - Copyright (c) 2024 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
FAU - Ochs, Cory
AU  - Ochs C
AD  - Division of Population Health and Applied Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, 
      Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador, St. John's, NL, Canada.
FAU - Garrison, Kaitlyn
AU  - Garrison K
AD  - Division of Population Health and Applied Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, 
      Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador, St. John's, NL, Canada.
FAU - Saxena, Priyam
AU  - Saxena P
AD  - Division of Population Health and Applied Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, 
      Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador, St. John's, NL, Canada. 
      Electronic address: psaxena@mun.ca.
FAU - Romme, Kristen
AU  - Romme K
AD  - Health Sciences Library, Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador, St. 
      John's, NL, Canada.
FAU - Sarkar, Atanu
AU  - Sarkar A
AD  - Division of Population Health and Applied Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, 
      Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador, St. John's, NL, Canada.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Review
DEP - 20240310
PL  - Netherlands
TA  - Sci Total Environ
JT  - The Science of the total environment
JID - 0330500
RN  - 0 (Persistent Organic Pollutants)
RN  - 0 (Solid Waste)
RN  - 0 (Water Pollutants, Chemical)
SB  - IM
MH  - Humans
MH  - United States
MH  - Ecosystem
MH  - Persistent Organic Pollutants
MH  - Canada
MH  - Waste Disposal Facilities
MH  - Solid Waste
MH  - *Water Pollutants, Chemical/analysis
MH  - *Refuse Disposal
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - Aquatic ecosystem
OT  - Landfills
OT  - Leachate
OT  - POPs
OT  - Scoping review
COIS- Declaration of competing interest The authors declare that they have no known 
      competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared 
      to influence the work reported in this paper.
EDAT- 2024/03/11 00:42
MHDA- 2024/04/03 06:44
CRDT- 2024/03/10 20:15
PHST- 2023/10/12 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2024/02/11 00:00 [revised]
PHST- 2024/03/03 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2024/04/03 06:44 [medline]
PHST- 2024/03/11 00:42 [pubmed]
PHST- 2024/03/10 20:15 [entrez]
AID - S0048-9697(24)01631-0 [pii]
AID - 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.171490 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Sci Total Environ. 2024 May 10;924:171490. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.171490. 
      Epub 2024 Mar 10.