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Heavy metal contamination in soils and vegetables near an e-waste processing site, south China
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The data showed that uncontrolled e-waste processing operations caused serious pollution to local soils and vegetables, and the cleaning up of former incineration sites should be a priority in any future remediation program.About:
This article is published in Journal of Hazardous Materials.The article was published on 2011-02-15. It has received 584 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Environmental pollution & Pollution.read more
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An overview of chemical additives present in plastics: Migration, release, fate and environmental impact during their use, disposal and recycling.
TL;DR: The present overview highlights the waste management and pollution challenges, emphasising on the various chemical substances contained in all plastic products for enhancing polymer properties and prolonging their life.
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Foliar heavy metal uptake, toxicity and detoxification in plants: A comparison of foliar and root metal uptake.
TL;DR: This is the first review regarding biogeochemical behaviour of heavy metals in atmosphere-plant system and summarizes the mechanisms involved in foliar heavy metal uptake, transfer, compartmentation, toxicity and in plant detoxification.
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A review of functionalized carbon nanotubes and graphene for heavy metal adsorption from water: Preparation, application, and mechanism.
TL;DR: This critical revies assesses the recent development of various functionalized carbon nanotubes and graphene that are used to remove heavy metals from contaminated water, including the preparation and characterization methods of functionalizedhene and graphene, their applications for heavy metal adsorption, effects of water chemistry on the Adsorption capacity, and decontamination mechanism.
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The uptake and bioaccumulation of heavy metals by food plants, their effects on plants nutrients, and associated health risk: a review.
TL;DR: Consumption of vegetables grown on metal-contaminated soil were nutrient deficient and consumption of such vegetables may lead to nutritional deficiency in the population particularly living in developing countries which are already facing the malnutrition problems.
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Soil contamination with cadmium, consequences and remediation using organic amendments
TL;DR: This review paper focuses on the sources, generation, and use of different organic amendments to remediate Cd contaminated soil, discusses their effects on soil physical and chemical properties, Cd bioavailability, plant uptake, and human health risk, and provides an update of the most relevant findings.
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Sequential extraction procedure for the speciation of particulate trace metals
TL;DR: In this paper, an analytical procedure involving sequential chemicai extractions was developed for the partitioning of particulate trace metals (Cd, Co, Cu, Ni, Pb, Zn, Fe, and Mn) into five fractions: exchangeable, bound to carbonates, binding to Fe-Mn oxides and bound to organic matter.
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Health risks of heavy metals in contaminated soils and food crops irrigated with wastewater in Beijing, China
TL;DR: It is highlighted that both adults and children consuming food crops grown in wastewater-irrigated soils ingest significant amount of the metals studied, however, health risk index values of less than 1 indicate a relative absence of health risks associated with the ingestion of contaminated vegetables.
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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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Health risk from heavy metals via consumption of food crops in the vicinity of Dabaoshan mine, South China.
TL;DR: Estimated daily intake (EDI) and THQs for Cd and Pb of rice and vegetables exceeded the FAO/WHO permissible limit and bio-accumulation factors of heavy metals were significantly higher for leafy than for non-leafy vegetable.