Heavy metals in PM 2.5 and in blood, and children's respiratory symptoms and asthma from an e-waste recycling area

2016 ◽  
Vol 210 ◽  
pp. 346-353 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiang Zeng ◽  
Xijin Xu ◽  
Xiangbin Zheng ◽  
Tiina Reponen ◽  
Aimin Chen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Heavy Metals ◽  
Respiratory Symptoms ◽  
Waste Recycling ◽  
Pm 2.5

scholarly journals Human Body Burden of Heavy Metals and Health Consequences of Pb Exposure in Guiyu, an E-Waste Recycling Town in China

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (23) ◽  
pp. 12428
Author(s):  
Wenlong Huang ◽  
Xiaoling Shi ◽  
Kusheng Wu
Keyword(s):  
Heavy Metals ◽  
Body Burden ◽  
Local Environment ◽  
Waste Recycling ◽  
The Body ◽  
Health Consequences ◽  
Long Term Effects ◽  
Adaptive Immune ◽  
Pb Exposure

Guiyu accommodates millions of tons of e-waste from overseas and domestic sources each year and is notorious for its e-waste dismantling industry. As a consequence, Guiyu has been described as “the world’s most toxic place” and “junk town”. Informal e-waste recycling activities have caused severe pollution to the local environment and are associated with extensive health problems to the residents. This review provides updated insights on the body burden of heavy metals derived from e-waste and health outcomes resulted from lead (Pb) exposure. The review identified that Guiyu has been highly contaminated by heavy metals, especially Pb. Excessive exposure to Pb has been associated with multi-system and long-term effects in neonates and children, covering nervous, cardiovascular, adaptive immune, and hematologic systems as well as chromosome and DNA damage. Our review indicates strong associations that emphasize the need to develop strong regulations for prevention of exposure and health consequences in Guiyu and similar sites around the world.

scholarly journals Heavy metals distribution and risk assessment in soil from an informal E-waste recycling site in Lagos State, Nigeria

2017 ◽  
Vol 24 (20) ◽  
pp. 17206-17219 ◽  
Author(s):  
Khadijah A. Isimekhai ◽  
Hemda Garelick ◽  
John Watt ◽  
Diane Purchase
Keyword(s):  
Heavy Metals ◽  
Risk Assessment ◽  
Waste Recycling ◽  
Lagos State

Potential health risk for residents around a typical e-waste recycling zone via inhalation of size-fractionated particle-bound heavy metals

2016 ◽  
Vol 317 ◽  
pp. 449-456 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chun-Li Huang ◽  
Lian-Jun Bao ◽  
Pei Luo ◽  
Zhao-Yi Wang ◽  
Shao-Meng Li ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Heavy Metals ◽  
Health Risk ◽  
Waste Recycling ◽  
Potential Health ◽  
Potential Health Risk

Environmental Susceptibility: Soil Contamination of Heavy Metals in the Territory of E-Waste Recycling Area

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (01) ◽  
pp. 25-31 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charu Gangwar ◽  
Aprajita Singh ◽  
Raina Pal ◽  
Atul Kumar ◽  
Saloni Sharma ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Heavy Metals ◽  
Heavy Metal ◽  
Metal Contamination ◽  
Heavy Metal Contamination ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Contamination Factor ◽  
Industrial Area ◽  
Waste Recycling ◽  
Pollution Load Index ◽  
Physiological Analysis

E-waste is a popular name given to those electronic products nearing the end of their useful life which has become a major source of heavy metal contamination in soil and hence, became the global concern. Various samples of soil were collected from different sites and were determined for heavy metal analysis by the ICP-AAS after the digestion process. The main source of contamination is illegal e-waste recycling activities such as burning of PCB's acid baths etc. Different soil indices like contamination factor, I-geo, pollution load index, were calculated to determine the quality of the soil. Results indicate that e-waste recycling and industrial area are strongly contaminated by the heavy metals. Physiological analysis of soil revealed that e-waste processing and industrial activities decrease the soil pH and organic matter while enhancing the electrical conductivity of soil. The exceedance of metal contamination imposed negative impact to the soil environment and human health.

scholarly journals Use of scalp hair as indicator of human exposure to heavy metals in an electronic waste recycling area

2009 ◽  
Vol 157 (8-9) ◽  
pp. 2445-2451 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thanh Wang ◽  
Jianjie Fu ◽  
Yawei Wang ◽  
Chunyang Liao ◽  
Yongqing Tao ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Heavy Metals ◽  
Human Exposure ◽  
Scalp Hair ◽  
Electronic Waste ◽  
Waste Recycling ◽  
Electronic Waste Recycling

Children with health impairments by heavy metals in an e-waste recycling area

Chemosphere ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 148 ◽  
pp. 408-415 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiang Zeng ◽  
Xijin Xu ◽  
H.Marike Boezen ◽  
Xia Huo
Keyword(s):  
Heavy Metals ◽  
Waste Recycling ◽  
Health Impairments

scholarly journals The technology of producing sorbents from linseed flax shive

2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (5) ◽  
pp. 517-525
Author(s):  
E. M. Puchkov ◽  
A. V. Galkin ◽  
I. V. Ushchapovsky
Keyword(s):  
Heavy Metals ◽  
Sorption Capacity ◽  
Raw Materials ◽  
Waste Recycling ◽  
Processing Waste ◽  
Bast Fiber ◽  
Federal Research ◽  
Rostov Region ◽  
Udmurt Republic ◽  
Disposal Problem

Flax processing waste, flax shive is of great importance for producing sorbents from non-wooden materials in Russia. There are more than 700 thousand hectares of linseed flax crops in the country. Linseed flax shive had been burned everywhere until recently as there was no technology of its processing. The waste disposal problem in the linseed flax cultivation regions could be solved by introducing new flax waste recycling and linen producing technologies developed by scientists of the Federal Research Center for Bast Fiber Crops. In 2015-2018 some studies were carried out in research laboratories and on the experi-mental plant of the center as well as on flax-sowing farms of the Udmurt Republic, Rostov region and Krasnodar territory. The research has shown that linseed shive contains 49-51% of cellulose and 23-27% of lignin, on which the sorption capacity of the material depends. The values of flax waste sorbent sorption capacity by the effective sorption of ions in relation to heavy metals are 85-91 %, to oil products - from 3.9 to 17.3 mg/g, to iodine and methylene blue - 222 and 220 mg/g, respectively. These values don’t concede the sorbents from wood and can replace the use of the latter. The developed technology of obtaining sorbent from flax allows to organize the production directly on flax-sowing farms and flax factories applying raw materials ready to use.

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