Crude or primitive recycling practices are often adopted in material resource recovery from E-
waste in developing nations. Significant human health and environmental impacts may …

Abstract In 2015, the United Nation (UN) launched 17 Sustainable Development Goals
(SDG) as part of an Agenda to be achieved by 2030. The target is having a global plan of …

Mining generates large volumes of waste, which if not regulated can release toxic metals,
causing widespread environmental contamination. This study focused on heavy metal …

The spatial and vertical distributions of heavy metals were quantitatively determined for
organic-rich agricultural soils in the Southwestern Nile Delta. This study aims to undertake …

Purpose The objectives of this study were (1) to determine the concentrations and
background concentrations of Ba, Co, Cr, Mn, and Ni in the urban soils of Talcahuano …

River Iyiudene is a vital distributary resource in Abakaliki, southeastern Nigeria and conveys
an abundant amount of sediments to provincial and residual ecosystems. Although the …

Abstract Nine metals (Al, Ba, Cr, Cu, Fe, Mn, Pb, V, and Zn) and three natural radionuclides
(40 K, 238 U, and 232 Th) were quantitatively determined in the cultivated and uncultivated …

Concentrations of metals (As, Cr, Cd, Fe, Ni, Pb, Sb, and Zn) in soil samples from Kombo-
Laka were investigated. The area under study is subjected to traditional gold mining and …

Evaluating the metallic risky pollution of soil in the vicinity of National Iranian Lead and Zinc
Company in Zanjan Province, Iran is considered in this study. Twenty-six composite samples …

Metals, when introduced into a high pH aquatic environment, generally sink into bottom
sediments and can pose a direct and indirect threat to aquatic organisms as well as humans …