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    Medications that are excreted through urine are only partially removed by depuration systems, with 50-90% of pills eliminated this way. This means the remaining portion ends up in oceans, as there are no completely effective systems to remove all traces of medications from wastewater. The BBC article discusses how excreted medications from human waste have accumulated in oceans around the world.

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    Medications that are excreted through urine are only partially removed by depuration systems, with 50-90% of pills eliminated this way. This means the remaining portion ends up in oceans, as there are no completely effective systems to remove all traces of medications from wastewater. The BBC article discusses how excreted medications from human waste have accumulated in oceans around the world.

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    The inexistence of 100% effective depuration systems implies that the part of the pill that we eliminate

    through the urine (between the 50-90% of the pill).


    https://www.bbc.com/mundo/noticias/2012/12/121210_ciencia_medicamentos_oceano_dp

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