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After medicines protect human health, some of their active ingredients and metabolites can pass through wastewater treatment and enter rivers. This article examines pharmaceutical pollution, combined exposure to antibiotics, ecological effects, antimicrobial resistance, and how the entire life cycle of medicine can be redesigned.

Tires release tiny particles whenever vehicles move. Rain can carry these microplastics from roads into storm drains, rivers, and eventually the ocean. The problem involves not only the particles themselves, but also chemicals such as 6PPD-quinone.