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Handling e-waste in developed and developing countries: initiatives, practices, and consequences.
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The faster growth of e-waste generated in the developing than in the developed world presages continued expansion of a pervasive and inexpensive informal processing sector, efficient in its own way, but inherently hazard-ridden.About:
This article is published in Science of The Total Environment.The article was published on 2013-10-01. It has received 438 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Extended producer responsibility & Hazardous waste.read more
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Biohydrometallurgical Recovery of Metals from Waste Electronic Equipment: Current Status and Proposed Process
Kundani Magoda,Lukhanyo Mekuto +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper , a two-stage bio-hydrometallurgical process is proposed to extract base metals from e-waste, where the first stage consists of acidophilic iron and sulphur oxidising organisms to extract the base metals, followed by the second stage which will consist of cyanide-producing organisms for the solubilisation of rare earth and precious metals.
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Addressing the Missing Link for Sustainable African Continental Free Trade: Lessons from Ghana’s Manufacturing Industry
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined how local manufacturing firms could increase their contribution to the African economy and found a positive and highly significant relationship between the value of capital and investment at the 5% significance level.
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Metals, Metallic Compounds, Organic Chemicals, and E-Waste Chemical Mixtures
TL;DR: In this paper, the major inorganic elements including metals, metalloids, and binary and multielemental materials, including nanomaterials used in the production of modern electronic devices, which ultimately find their way into electronic waste streams.
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Metal recovery using supercritical carbon dioxide
Daniel Assumpção Bertuol,Franco Dani Rico Amado,Estevan Dorneles Cruz,Eduardo Hiromitsu Tanabe +3 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors reviewed the application of supercritical CO2 (ScCO2), in the presence of cosolvents and complexing agents, for the recovery of metals from different matrices.
Dissertation
Closed-loop Supply Chain: A Systematic Review
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a Table of Contents (table of contents) and a List of FIGURES (list of figures) and Table of TABLES (lists of columns and columns).
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E-waste: An assessment of global production and environmental impacts
TL;DR: Miniaturisation and the development of more efficient cloud computing networks, where computing services are delivered over the internet from remote locations, may offset the increase in E-waste production from global economic growth and theDevelopment of pervasive new technologies.
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Global perspectives on e-waste
TL;DR: The Basel Ban, an amendment to the Basel Convention that has not yet come into force, would go one step further by prohibiting the export of e-waste from developed to industrializing countries as discussed by the authors.
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Export of toxic chemicals – A review of the case of uncontrolled electronic-waste recycling
Ming Hung Wong,Shengchun Wu,Wenjing Deng,X. Z. Yu,Qian Luo,Anna Oi Wah Leung,Coby S.C. Wong,W. J. Luksemburg,A. S. Wong +8 more
TL;DR: It is obvious that the environment is highly contaminated by these toxic chemicals derived from the recycling processes, especially on tracking the exposure pathways of different toxic chemicals which may affect the workers and local residents especially mothers, infants and children.
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Spatial distribution of polybrominated diphenyl ethers and polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins and dibenzofurans in soil and combusted residue at Guiyu, an electronic waste recycling site in southeast China.
TL;DR: The crude processing of e-waste has become one of the major contributors of PBDEs and PCDD/Fs to the terrestrial environment and acid leaching and open burning emitted the highest concentrations.
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Heavy Metals Concentrations of Surface Dust from e-Waste Recycling and Its Human Health Implications in Southeast China
TL;DR: Risk assessment predicted that Pb and Cu originating from circuit board recycling have the potential to pose serious health risks to workers and local residents of Guiyu, especially children, and warrants an urgent investigation into heavy metal related health impacts.