Fate of pharmaceuticals and pesticides in fly larvae composting

• DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2016.04.147
• Publication Date: 2016-05-10T15:31:48Z
• Authors: C. Lalander; J. Senecal; M. Gros Calvo; L. Ahrens; S. Josefsson; K. Wiberg; B. Vinnerås
• Keywords: Fly larvae

A novel and efficient organic waste management strategy currently gaining great attention is fly larvae composting. High resource recovery efficiency can be achieved in this closed-looped system, but pharmaceuticals pesticides could potentially accumulate every loop of the treatment system spread to environment. This study evaluated fate three (carbamazepine, roxithromycin, trimethoprim) two (azoxystrobin, propiconazole) a composting control with no larvae. It was found that half-life all five substances shorter compost (<10% control) bioaccumulation detected Fly thus impede into