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Industries produce and handle toxic products that can cause environmental and health problems, which haven’t been properly monitored, nor their impact truly reduced. A strategy to deal with this type of problem involves extracting pollutants from the resulting waste using a Solid-Phase Extraction (SPE) technique. The SPE, combined with UV-Vis spectroscopy, constitute a powerful method to follow the kinetic adsorption of extracted composites, in particular the so-called BXTE (benzene, xylene, toluene, and ethylbenzene). The project, established in partnership with the Molecular and Engineering Thermodynamics (MET) research group of the Structural Chemistry Center (CQE) of the University of Lisbon (FCUL), includes the collaboration of professors, researchers and students of ISEC Lisboa and the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon (FCUL). The project intends to study and to develop technological solutions conducive to the removal of wastewater pollutants by using SPE, and is part of the Strategic Axis 1 – Organizational and Environmental Sustainability.