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ArticleInternational journal of environmental research and public health2020

The Management of Health Hazards Related to Municipal Solid Waste on Fire in Europe: An Environmental Justice Issue?

Walter Mazzucco, Claudio Costantino, Vincenzo Restivo, Davide Alba, Claudia Marotta, Elisa Tavormina, Achille Cernigliaro, Maurizio Macaluso, Rosanna Cusimano, Rosario Grammauta and 3 more

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Article in International journal of environmental research and public health, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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2citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed, 20 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

13 authors at 5 institutions in 2 countries.

Walter MazzuccoHealth Promotion Sciences, Maternal and Infant Care, Internal Medicine and Medical Specialties (PROMISE) Department, University of Palermo, 90133 Palermo, Italy.ORCID 0000-0001-5090-1366
Claudio CostantinoHealth Promotion Sciences, Maternal and Infant Care, Internal Medicine and Medical Specialties (PROMISE) Department, University of Palermo, 90133 Palermo, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-3397-7331
Vincenzo RestivoHealth Promotion Sciences, Maternal and Infant Care, Internal Medicine and Medical Specialties (PROMISE) Department, University of Palermo, 90133 Palermo, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-5406-884X
Davide AlbaHealth Promotion Sciences, Maternal and Infant Care, Internal Medicine and Medical Specialties (PROMISE) Department, University of Palermo, 90133 Palermo, Italy.
Claudia MarottaHealth Promotion Sciences, Maternal and Infant Care, Internal Medicine and Medical Specialties (PROMISE) Department, University of Palermo, 90133 Palermo, Italy.ORCID 0000-0003-4199-9060
Elisa TavorminaDepartment of Health Services and Epidemiological Observatory, Regional Health Authority, Sicilian Region, 90145 Palermo, Italy.
Achille CernigliaroDepartment of Health Services and Epidemiological Observatory, Regional Health Authority, Sicilian Region, 90145 Palermo, Italy.
Maurizio MacalusoCollege of Medicine, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH 45267, USA.
Rosanna CusimanoPalermo Health Agency, 90146 Palermo, Italy.
Rosario GrammautaInstitute for the Study of Anthropogenic Impacts and Sustainability in the Marine Environment (IAS), National Research Council, 91021 Torretta Granitola (Trapani), Italy.
Fabio TramutoHealth Promotion Sciences, Maternal and Infant Care, Internal Medicine and Medical Specialties (PROMISE) Department, University of Palermo, 90133 Palermo, Italy.ORCID 0000-0003-0108-4608
Salvatore ScondottoDepartment of Health Services and Epidemiological Observatory, Regional Health Authority, Sicilian Region, 90145 Palermo, Italy.
Francesco VitaleHealth Promotion Sciences, Maternal and Infant Care, Internal Medicine and Medical Specialties (PROMISE) Department, University of Palermo, 90133 Palermo, Italy.
University of Palermo · ITRegione Siciliana · ITAzienda Ospedaliera Universitaria Policlinico "Paolo Giaccone" di Palermo · ITInstitute for Coastal Marine Environment · ITUniversity of Cincinnati Medical Center · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Landfilling should be the last option in an integrated Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) management approach. In the European Union (EU), the policy framework to protect the environment and the public health against the impact of health hazards related to urban solid waste management has been consistently implemented in recent decades. A growing interest in the negative impact of fires in waste landfills on the environment and people's health was reported in some European countries. In Italy, an increasing occurrence of arsons in MSW and landfills has been reported in recent years. During the summer of 2012, a multi-site arson occurred in the Palermo Municipal solid waste landfill of Bellolampo (western Sicily), giving rise to an environmental emergency of public health concern. Local health authorities reacted by creating an inter-institutional multidisciplinary task force with the aim to implement measures to prevent and control the risk of exposure by delimiting a protection area to be taken under strict monitoring. Environmental and epidemiological investigations were put in place by air, soil, and farm product sampling. A syndromic surveillance of the exposed population was conducted as well. The air monitoring stations system in place detected an increase in the concentrations of dioxins and dioxin-like substances with the PM10 highest emission pick documented within the first 24 h and estimated at about 60 μg/m

Indexed as

Refuse DisposalWaste Disposal FacilitiesWaste ManagementEnvironmental MonitoringEuropeHumansSicilySolid WasteSolid Wasteenvironmental justiceenvironment pollutionhealth effectsmunicipal solid wastepublic health

Identifiers

PMID32932886
PMCPMC7558387
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