An overview of the environmental pollution and health effects associated with waste landfilling and open dumping

A Siddiqua, JN Hahladakis, WAKA Al-Attiya - Environmental Science and …, 2022 - Springer
Landfilling is one of the most common waste management methods employed in all
countries alike, irrespective of their developmental status. The most commonly used types of …

Removal of heavy metals from industrial wastewaters: a review

A Azimi, A Azari, M Rezakazemi… - ChemBioEng …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Heavy metals like arsenic, copper, cadmium, chromium, nickel, zinc, lead, and mercury are
major pollutants of fresh water reservoirs because of their toxic, non‐biodegradable, and …

Environmental health and risk assessment metrics with special mention to biotransfer, bioaccumulation and biomagnification of environmental pollutants

R Chormare, MA Kumar - Chemosphere, 2022 - Elsevier
The environment pollutants, which are landed up in environment because of human
activities like urbanization, mining and industrializations, affects human health, plants and …

Heavy metals in surface sediments of the Jialu River, China: their relations to environmental factors

J Fu, C Zhao, Y Luo, C Liu, GZ Kyzas, Y Luo… - Journal of hazardous …, 2014 - Elsevier
This work investigated heavy metal pollution in surface sediments of the Jialu River, China.
Sediment samples were collected at 19 sites along the river in connection with field surveys …

Contamination of stream sediment with heavy metals in the Awetu watershed of southwestern Ethiopia

H Astatkie, A Ambelu, E Mengistie - Frontiers in Earth Science, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Surface sediment samples were collected from different streams of Awetu Watershed in
southwestern Ethiopia. Sediment samples were analyzed for As, Cd, Cr, Pb, and Hg levels …

Optimization of electrocoagulation (EC) process for the purification of a real industrial wastewater from toxic metals

E Gatsios, JN Hahladakis, E Gidarakos - Journal of Environmental …, 2015 - Elsevier
In the present work, the efficiency evaluation of electrocoagulation (EC) in removing toxic
metals from a real industrial wastewater, collected from Aspropyrgos, Athens, Greece was …

Heavy metal pollution risk assessments and their transportation in sediment and overlay water for the typical Chinese reservoirs

M Deng, X Yang, X Dai, Q Zhang, A Malik… - Ecological …, 2020 - Elsevier
To assess the metals (Cr, Mn, Cu, Zn, Cd, Hg and Pb) pollution risks and their transportation
in sediment and overlay water from the typical reservoirs in the rapidly developing economic …

[HTML][HTML] Assessment of metal (loid) s pollution in water and sediment from an urban river in Bangladesh: An ecological and health risk appraisals

MR Haque, MM Ali, W Ahmed, MM Rahman - Case Studies in Chemical …, 2022 - Elsevier
The current study is the initial study on metal-to-metal correlation and metal concentration
correlation within sediment and water in Bangladesh. It also covers ecological and human …

Speciation of Cu and Zn during composting of pig manure amended with rock phosphate

D Lu, L Wang, B Yan, Y Ou, J Guan, Y Bian, Y Zhang - Waste management, 2014 - Elsevier
Pig manure usually contains a large amount of metals, especially Cu and Zn, which may
limit its land application. Rock phosphate has been shown to be effective for immobilizing …

Evaluation of heavy metals contamination and pollution indices levels in surface sediments of the Bizerte coastal line, Tunisia

A Aydi, S Ghannem, A Nasri, R Hessine… - Marine Pollution Bulletin, 2022 - Elsevier
Heavy metal concentrations in surface sediments collected from 17 stations samples in
Bizerte coastal line were determined in order to evaluate the contamination status in the …