Simone Toller

Italian National Research Council | CNR · Institute of Marine Science ISMAR

Introduction: Municipal Solid Waste Incineration (MSWI) plants generate significant amounts of solid end-products, such as bottom ash (BA), containing potentially toxic elements like Cr, Ni, As, Cd, and Pb, base elements (e.g., Si, Al, Fe, Ti, Cu, and Zn), and other technology-critical elements (TCE), such as Co, Ga, Mg, Nb, P, Sb, Sc, V, Li, Sr, a...

Introduction: Bottom ash (BA) constitutes a significant by-product obtained during the incineration of municipal solid waste in waste-to-energy (WtE) plants. BA is a heterogeneous material made of different fractions, glass, minerals, metals, and unburned residual organic matter. Due to the non-hazardous nature of the unburned material, BA can be e...

Vengono presentate le attività svolte e i risultati preliminari della campagna geologica, geochimica e microbiologica SeaGMA2023 svoltasi dal 09-03-2023 al 16-03-2023 nel mare Tirreno meridionale con la Nave da Ricerca R/V Dallaporta. L’obiettivo principale della campagna è stato l’esecuzione di campionamenti sistematici dei sedimenti di fondo e di...

Introduction: Bottom ashes (BA) from municipal solid waste incinerators (MSWIs) are currently classified by the European Waste Catalogue as industrial non-hazardous waste. To promote their reuse, identification and characterization of the heavy metal-bearing phases (both glass and minerals), as well as their weathering behavior, must be addressed f...

Metals are essential in our daily lives and have a finite supply, being simultaneously contaminants of concern. The current carbon emissions and environmental impact of mining are untenable. We need to reclaim metals sustainably from secondary resources, like waste. Biotechnology can be applied in metal recovery from waste streams like fly ashes an...

Microplastics (MPs) are widely distributed in the marine environment, posing a significant threat to marine biota. The contribution of anthropogenic and terrestrial sources to the aquatic ecosystem has led to an increase in MPs findings, and their abundance in aquatic biota has been reported to be of concern. MPs are formed mainly via photo degrada...

Rapporto sulle attività geologiche, geochimiche e microbiologiche svolte per il progetto SeaGMA (Geochemical and Microbiological Assessment of the sea: a combined survey for abiotic/biotic resources mapping) durante la campagna oceanografica a bordo della N/O Dallaporta nel mare Tirreno Settentrionale (2022, 28 Aprile - 05 Maggio)

The inter-element relationships and the forms in which metals exist strongly influence their mobility and, in turn, have a signature on the environment and human health. Located in the northern Apennines within the Emilia-Romagna region, the Ridracoli artificial lake is one of Italy's most important reservoirs that provides drinking water for about...

Ridracoli and Conca are both Reservoirs for the storage of drinking water in the Emilia-Romagna region of Italy but they differ in many ways. The Ridracoli reservoir is located upstream near the source on Apennines, it can store 33.06·106 m3 of water and shows the formation of a seasonal anoxic layer on the bottom in late summer (Toller et al., 202...

Sediment characterization of Ridracoli reservoir, an artificial lake for water supply, and surroundings of the Fiumi Uniti catchment in the northern Apennines, Emilia-Romagna, Italy, is carried out to evaluate the overall status of the drainage basin encompassing the reservoir. The study area combines the reservoir catchment that is part of the For...

Analisi delle caratteristiche fisico-chimiche e composizionali di acque e sedimenti di un invaso artificiale, con particolare riguardo al caso del Lago di Ridracoli, un grande lago artificiale nella provincia di Forlì-Cesena sugli Appennini gestito da Romagna Acque Società delle Fonti S.p.a. che immagazzina acqua potabile per l'Acquedotto della Rom...

Sediment samples were collected in 2019 from Fiumi Uniti catchment in Italy in an area between the Romagna Apennines and the Adriatic Sea. The sampling phase included the collection of sediments from the Ridracoli reservoir, a large artificial basin located at 480 m a.s.l. made by construction of a dam on the Bidente river and used as the main drin...

The Ridracoli artificial basin is the main water reservoir of the Emilia-Romagna region (Northeast Italy). The reservoir was made by construction of a dam on the Bidente River in 1982. It is used as the main drinking water supply of the region and for hydropower production. The physical and chemical parameterseters (temperature, pH, electrical cond...