MORPHEUS
The background to MORPHEUS (Model Areas for Removal of Pharmaceutical Substances in the South Baltic) is the constant release of pharmaceuticals and other micropollutants via wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) to the South Baltic Sea.
The project will combine information on upstream pharmaceuticals consumption patterns with estimates of the downstream discharge of pharmaceuticals from a few selected WWTPs located in the coastal regions Skåne (Sweden), Mecklenburg (Germany), Klaipeda (Lithuania) and Pomerania (Poland). Additionally an inventory of the status of existing treatment technologies will be made available.
This information will aid WWTPs and autorities in a future implementation of the moste suitable advanced treatment technology.
The main outputs of MORPHEUS are recommendations for actions on how to reduce chemical burden, roadmaps for investment in advanced treatment technologies at selected regional wastewater treatment plants, training courses on basic pharmaceutical analysis and advanced treatment technologies for target groups as well as awareness raising among consumers.
MORPHEUS is a part of the BSR pharmaceuticals platform, a flagship project of the EU Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region.
MORPHEUS is coordinated by the Kristianstad University (Sweden), project partners are EUCC-D, Rostock University, Gdansk Water Foundation (Poland), Gdansk University of Technology (Poland), the Environmental Protection Agency (Lithuania) and Klaipeda University (Lithuania).
Duration: 2017 to 2019
Funded by: EU South Baltic Programme 2014-2020
Results
Newsletter Articles:
- Küsten Newsletter 6-2019
- Küsten Newsletter 5-2019
- Küsten Newsletter 4-2019
- Küsten Newsletter 3-2019
- Küsten Newsletter 6-2018
- Coastal and MarinE-News 11-2018
- Coastal and MarinE-News 11-2018
- Küsten Newsletter 5-2018
- Küsten Newsletter 5-2018
- Coastal and MarinE-News 9-2018
- Coastal and MarinE-News 5-2018
- Küsten Newsletter 2-2018
- Küsten Newsletter 6-2017
- Küsten Newsletter 3-2017
- Küsten Newsletter 2-2017
- Küsten Newsletter 3-2017
- Coastal and MarinE-News 6-2017
Information material:
- Project Poster
- Project Leaflet (EN)
- Postcard "Don't flush" (EN)
- Postcard Lup Lars Leuchtturm MORPHEUS (EN)
- Leaflet "Best practices in chemical analysis of pharmaceuticals in the environment" (EN)
- Leaflet "Advanced treatment technologies for the removal of pharmaceutical substances in WWTPs" (EN)
Movie:
Interviews:
- Cornelia Rudolph, European Commission, DG Environment
Policy briefs:
- No.1: Pharmaceutical Consumption
- No.2: Overview of advanced technologies in wastewater treatment for removal of pharmaceuticals and other micropollutants
Publications:
- Estimating and reducing the discharge of pharmaceutical substances into the South Baltic (Coastal & Marine Magazine 2019-2)
- Determination of the Regional Pharmaceutical Burden in 15 Selected WWTPs and Associated Water Bodies using Chemical Analysis
- Pharmaceutical consumption patterns in four coastal regions of the South Baltic Sea – Germany, Sweden, Poland and Lithuania
- Overview of advanced technologies in wastewater treatment for removal of pharmaceuticals and other micropollutants
- Inventory of existing treatment technologies in wastewater treatment plants
- Meer & Küste 7/2018 (pp. 21; 28-31)
- Pharmaceutical emissions from Scanian wastewater treatment plants in 2017