Estimating Particulate Exposure from Modern Municipal Waste Incinerators in Great Britain

Philippa Douglas; Anna Freni-Sterrantino; Maria Leal Sanchez; Danielle C. Ashworth; Rebecca E. Ghosh; Daniela Fecht; Anna Font; Marta Blangiardo; John Gulliver; Mireille B. Toledano; Paul Elliott; Kees De Hoogh; Gary W. Fuller; Anna L. Hansell

doi:10.1021/acs.est.6b06478

Estimating Particulate Exposure from Modern Municipal Waste Incinerators in Great Britain

Philippa Douglas, Anna Freni-Sterrantino, Maria Leal Sanchez, Danielle C. Ashworth, Rebecca E. Ghosh, Daniela Fecht, Anna Font, Marta Blangiardo, John Gulliver, Mireille B. Toledano, Paul Elliott, Kees De Hoogh, Gary W. Fuller, Anna L. Hansell^*

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Municipal Waste Incineration (MWI) is regulated through the European Union Directive on Industrial Emissions (IED), but there is ongoing public concern regarding potential hazards to health. Using dispersion modeling, we estimated spatial variability in PM₁₀ concentrations arising from MWIs at postcodes (average 12 households) within 10 km of MWIs in Great Britain (GB) in 2003-2010. We also investigated change points in PM₁₀ emissions in relation to introduction of EU Waste Incineration Directive (EU-WID) (subsequently transposed into IED) and correlations of PM₁₀ with SO₂, NOx, heavy metals, polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins/furan (PCDD/F), polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) and polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) emissions. Yearly average modeled PM₁₀ concentrations were 1.00 × 10^-5 to 5.53 × 10^-2 μg m^-3, a small contribution to ambient background levels which were typically 6.59-2.68 × 10¹ μg m^-3, 3-5 orders of magnitude higher. While low, concentration surfaces are likely to represent a spatial proxy of other relevant pollutants. There were statistically significant correlations between PM₁₀ and heavy metal compounds (other heavy metals (r = 0.43, p = <0.001)), PAHs (r = 0.20, p = 0.050), and PCBs (r = 0.19, p = 0.022). No clear change points were detected following EU-WID implementation, possibly as incinerators were operating to EU-WID standards before the implementation date. Results will be used in an epidemiological analysis examining potential associations between MWIs and health outcomes.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	7511-7519
Number of pages	9
Journal	Environmental science & technology
Volume	51
Issue number	13
Early online date	16 Jun 2017
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.6b06478
Publication status	Published - 5 Jul 2017

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Douglas, P., Freni-Sterrantino, A., Leal Sanchez, M., Ashworth, D. C., Ghosh, R. E., Fecht, D., Font, A., Blangiardo, M., Gulliver, J., Toledano, M. B., Elliott, P., De Hoogh, K., Fuller, G. W., & Hansell, A. L. (2017). Estimating Particulate Exposure from Modern Municipal Waste Incinerators in Great Britain. Environmental science & technology, 51(13), 7511-7519. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.6b06478

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