Insight of chemical environmental risk and its management from the vinyl chloride accident

Bin Wang; Liping Heng; Qian Sui; Zheng Peng; Xuezhi Xiao; Minghui Zheng; Jianxin Hu; Heidelore Fiedler; Damià Barceló; Gang Yu

doi:10.1007/s11783-023-1652-x

Insight of chemical environmental risk and its management from the vinyl chloride accident

Bin Wang
, Liping Heng^*
, Qian Sui
, Zheng Peng
, Xuezhi Xiao
, Minghui Zheng
, Jianxin Hu
, Heidelore Fiedler
, Damià Barceló
, Gang Yu^*

^*Corresponding author for this work

School of Chemistry

Tsinghua University
East China University of Science and Technology
Ministry of Ecology and Environment
CAS - Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences
Peking University
Örebro University
Spanish Council for Scientific Research (CSIC)
Beijing Normal University

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The combustion of vinyl chloride (VC) after the train derailment accident in Ohio, USA in February, 2023 has caused widespread concern around the world. This paper tried to analyze several issues concerning the accident, including the appropriateness of the VC combustion in the emergency response in this accident, the meanings of so-called “controlled combustion”, the potential environmental risks caused by VC and combustion by-products, and follow-up work. In our view, this accident had surely caused environmental and health risks to some extent. Hence, a comprehensive environmental risk assessment is necessary, and then the site with risk should be comprehensively remediated, hazardous waste should be harmlessly treated as soon as possible. Finally, this accident suggests that further efforts should be taken to bridge the gap between chemical safety management and their environmental risk management.

Original language	English
Article number	52
Journal	Frontiers of Environmental Science and Engineering
Volume	17
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s11783-023-1652-x
State	Published - Apr 2023

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SDG 3 Good Health and Well-being
SDG 12 Responsible Consumption and Production

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Chemical safety management
Combustion
Emerging contaminants
Environmental risk
Vinyl chloride

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