PILLS – Pharmaceutical Input and Elimination from Local Sources

Emschergenossenschaft (German water board)

2007-2012

British Isles Central Europe Western Europe

Aims to find out whether the separation and treatment of concentrated pharmaceutically burdened waste water from highly concentrated waste water point sources (such as hospitals, old people’s homes) can be regarded as a sustainable cost-effective step in the reduction of overall discharge of such substances into the aquatic system

Hospitals, Hospitals/health system stakeholders, Local governments, National/Local decision and policy makers, and Scientists

Emergence of anti-microbial resistance (AMR), Occurrence of pharmaceuticals in the environment, Pharmaceutical consumption by humans, Risks to ecosystems, Wastewater, and Water treatment technologies

1) To gain comparable (scientific and practical) solutions to treat different types of point sources that can also be transferred to other locations
2) To take the problem to a broad discussion about protective measures as well as about the responsibility of individuals, water boards, suppliers, hospitals or health service providers to avoid the pollution of water resources

• Pharmaceutical residues in the aquatic system – a challenge for the future. Insights and activities of the European cooperation project PILLS
• Pharmaceutical residues in the aquatic system – a challenge for the future. Insights and activities of the European cooperation project PILLS
• The PILLS project – Background, objectives & main topics
• Spurenstoffe im Abwasser – Wir handeln!
• Pharmaceutical Input and Elimination from local sources. Final report of the European cooperation project PILLS
• PILLS – Pharmaceutical Input and Elimination from Local Sources
• The PILLS and noPILLS projects: Strategies for the reduction of pharmaceutical inputs into the aquatic environment