Tracing pharmaceuticals in a municipal plant for integrated wastewater and organic solid waste treatment

► Removal and fate of pharmaceuticals during wastewater and sludge treatment were studied. ► 23 pharmaceuticals were detected in effluent wastewater and 11 in dewatered sludge. ► The influent concentrations were mostly affected by BNR process, and less by AcoD. ► Sorption to sludge was not a relevant removal pathway for the studied pharmaceuticals.