Mitigation of indoor air pollution: A review of recent advances in adsorption materials and catalytic oxidation

X Yue, NL Ma, C Sonne, R Guan, SS Lam… - Journal of hazardous …, 2021 - Elsevier
Indoor air pollution with toxic volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and fine particulate matter
(PM2. 5) is a threat to human health, causing cancer, leukemia, fetal malformation, and …

Nano-remediation technologies for the sustainable mitigation of persistent organic pollutants

L Fei, M Bilal, SA Qamar, HM Imran, A Riasat… - Environmental …, 2022 - Elsevier
The absence of novel and efficient methods for the elimination of persistent organic
pollutants (POPs) from the environment is a serious concern in the society. The pollutants …

Passive air sampling for semi-volatile organic chemicals

F Wania, C Shunthirasingham - Environmental Science: Processes & …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
During passive air sampling, the amount of a chemical taken up in a sorbent from the air
without the help of a pump is quantified and converted into an air concentration. In an …

WEEE treatment in develo** countries: Environmental pollution and health consequences—An overview

M Vaccari, G Vinti, A Cesaro, V Belgiorno… - International journal of …, 2019 - mdpi.com
In the last few decades, the rapid technological evolution has led to a growing generation of
waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE). Not rarely, it has been exported from …

[HTML][HTML] Soil pollution at a major West African E-waste recycling site: Contamination pathways and implications for potential mitigation strategies

C Moeckel, K Breivik, TH Nøst, A Sankoh… - Environment …, 2020 - Elsevier
Organic contaminants (polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), polybrominated diphenyl
ethers (PBDEs), polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), and chlorinated paraffins (CPs)) and …

Human health risk assessment for PAHs, phthalates, elements, PCDD/Fs, and DL-PCBs in PM2. 5 and for NMVOCs in two East-Mediterranean urban sites under …

M Fadel, F Ledoux, C Afif, D Courcot - Atmospheric Pollution Research, 2022 - Elsevier
This study evaluates the carcinogenic and the non-carcinogenic health risks related to non-
methane volatile organic compounds (NMVOCs) and elements, dioxins, furans, dioxin-like …

Temporal trends of persistent organic pollutants across Africa after a decade of MONET passive air sampling

KB White, J Kalina, M Scheringer… - Environmental …, 2020 - ACS Publications
The Global Monitoring Plan of the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants
(POPs) was established to generate long-term data necessary for evaluating the …

E-waste recycling practices: a review on environmental concerns, remediation and technological developments with a focus on printed circuit boards

SP Tembhare, BA Bhanvase, DP Barai… - Environment …, 2021 - Springer
Decrease in life span of electronic devices and consumer's urge to use advanced
technology leads to obsolescence of such devices, resulting in electronic waste generation …

Polyurethane foam-based passive air sampling for simultaneous determination of POP-and PAH-related compounds: A case study in informal waste processing and …

HQ Anh, I Watanabe, NM Tue, PH Viet, NK Chi… - Chemosphere, 2020 - Elsevier
Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs),
hexabromobiphenyl (BB-153), novel brominated flame retardants (NBFRs), and …

Comparing pollution patterns and human exposure to atmospheric PBDEs and PCBs emitted from different e-waste dismantling processes

R Liu, S Ma, G Li, Y Yu, T An - Journal of hazardous materials, 2019 - Elsevier
Highlights•Five typical waste printed circuit boards recycling workshops were
investigated.•Electric heating of television emitted highest PBDEs and PCBs among five …