Purpose In recent years, electronic waste has become the fastest growing waste stream
globally with potential deleterious environmental and public health effects from its …

Background. Environmental impacts from informal e-waste recycling are increasing in Africa.
E-waste handling and disposal exposes people to highly toxic cocktails of heavy metals …

Uncontrolled electronic-waste (e-waste) recycling processes have induced serious
environmental pollution and human health impacts. This paper reviewed studies on the wide …

Investigations were made to analyze the effects of heavy metals on the adults and children
working in informal e-waste recycling sectors of Chandigarh and Ludhiana, Punjab, India …

Electronic waste (e-waste) has become a subject of growing environmental concern in
developing countries due to legal/illegal import of electronics from developed nations. In this …

Multivariate analysis of a heavy metal pollution survey of closed and active landfill
precursors was carried out in order to compare environmental risk levels in relation to age …

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 …

Background. Soil contamination from heavy metals and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons
(PAHs) released during informal e-waste processing and disposal poses human and …

Informal E-waste recycling can pose a risk to human health and the environment which this
study endeavours to evaluate. The distribution of a number of heavy metals in soil from an …

Background. Recycling of electronic waste (e-waste) in developing nations poses a risk to
the environment and human health through the release of heavy metals. Objectives. The aim …