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Tracking Global Flows of E-Waste Additives by Using Substance Flow Analysis, with a Case Study in China
The ongoing process of globalization and global trade of products have been an important topic in media as well as in social and economic science. Overlaid by the well-known global trade pathways for feedstock...
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A Revision of Current Models for Environmental and Human Health Impact and Risk Assessment for Application to Emerging Chemicals
Nowadays, we are living in the global circular economy, where products are produced, used, and finally disposed in different parts of the world. These products have a huge amount of additives, that in many cas...
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Environmental Fate Models
The environmental fate of chemicals describes the processes by which chemicals move and are transformed into the environment. Environmental fate processes that should be addressed include: persistence in air, ...
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Human and Environmental Impact Produced by E-Waste Releases at Guiyu Region (China)
Over the last decades, the amount of electronic waste (e-waste) has increased rapidly in the world. It has become one of the emerging problems of the twenty-first century. About 50–80% of e-waste from industri...
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Monitoring Metals near a Hazardous Waste Incinerator. Temporal Trend in Soils and Herbage
In recent years, incineration has been demonstrated to be a commercially available technology for hazardous waste (HW) disposal (Richter and Johnke, 2004). However, because of the potential adverse effects of tox...
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Trends in the Levels of Metals in Soils and Vegetation Samples Collected Near a Hazardous Waste Incinerator
In 1998 and 2001, the levels of a number of elements (As, Be, Cd, Cr, Hg, Mn, Ni, Pb, Sn, Tl, and V) were determined in 40 soil and 40 herbage samples collected near a new hazardous waste incinerator (HWI) (Co...
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Health Risk Assessment of PCDD/PCDF Exposure for the Population Living in the Vicinity of a Municipal Waste Incinerator