The increasing generation of toxic heavy metals from smelting activities poses significant
threat to food safety, human health, and soil ecosystem, due to their unacceptable exposure …

One of the serious environmental concern around the world is heavy metals contamination.
They can enter to the environment through human activities such as mining, farming, and …

Contamination by heavy metals is a significant issue worldwide. In recent decades, soil
heavy metals pollutants in China had adverse impacts on soil quality and threatened food …

This paper presents the latest overview of the environmental impact of wastes from the non-
ferrous metallurgical industry. Ashes, slags and dusts–by-products from mining and metal …

Nonferrous metallurgy is causing significant concerns due to its emissions of heavy metals
into environment, degrading environmental quality, and consequently posing high risks to …

Cadmium (Cd) contamination from mining and smelting operations has led to growing
environmental health concerns. In this study, soil, surface water, drinking water, rice …

The nature of sediment dissolved organic matter (SDOM) can reflect the environmental
background, nutritional status and human activities and is an important part of lakes. The …

Based on 1186 published studies, the first national-scale assessment of cadmium (Cd)
contamination in agricultural soils across China was conducted. Cd concentrations …

The increasing demand for minerals pressurizing the mining authorities to extract low-grade
ore results in more mining waste and degradation of the environment. The main aim of …

Due to the vast consumption and shortened lifespan of mobile phones, waste mobile
phones (WMPs) have become one of the fastest-growing global waste electrical and …