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Pine bark removes pharmaceutical residues from wastewater—an affordable way to keep antibiotics out of nature (phys.org)
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Researchers at the University of Oulu, Finland, have developed a pine-bark–based water-treatment medium that efficiently removes antibiotics as well as residues of blood-pressure and antidepressant medicines from wastewater treatment plant effluent. A new doctoral thesis reports promising results with a simple and low-cost method in which pine bark was modified with iron.

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