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The project is focused on the elimination of anthropogenic pollution by pharmaceutical substances (especially resistant antibiotics) from wastewater, which leads to the accumulation of unnaturally occurring substances in the environment. At present, wastewater treatment plants do not have technologies that would be able to eliminate these pollutants from wastewater, and are therefore further entrained in the environment (especially in surface water). It is therefore in the general interest to reduce the input of this pollution, thereby protecting itself and the environment. Due to the evident dominance of the input of pharmaceutical substances into the environment from surface sources (wastewater from the population) (Santos et al., 2013), the project intends to eliminate or reduce the input of these substances from the effluents of biological wastewater treatment plants. The project partners will realize field-tests of technologies that have been developed at both sites and promise very effective removal of the contaminants in question from the wastewater.