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ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT REVIEW
Volume 62, Issue -, Pages 110-114Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.eiar.2016.08.004
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Chemical footprint; USEtox; Ecotoxicity; Human toxicity; Zinc; E-PRTR
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- Swedish Environmental Protection Agency
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In a recent paper, Sorme et al. (Environ. Impact Assess. Rev., 56, 2016), took a first step towards an indicator of a national chemical footprint, and applied it to Sweden. Using USEtox 1.01, they calculated national impact potentials for human toxicity and ecotoxicity. The results showed that zinc dominated impacts, both for human toxicity and ecotoxicity. We calculated updated indicators of the Swedish national human toxicity and ecotoxicity footprint using USEtox 2.01. We also compared impact potentials based on USEtox with the mass of chemical emissions. The two model versions produced relatively consistent results. Zinc is still a major contributor to the human toxicity and ecotoxicity impact potentials when-characterized with USEtox 2.01. The mass-based indicator pinpoints somewhat different substances than the impact-based indicators. (C) 2016 Published by Elsevier Inc.
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