Balabanova, Biljana (2024) Eco-toxicological risk assessment of e-waste soil pollution. In: 4th International Meeting Agriscience & Practice (ASP 2024), 13 June 2024, Stip, Republic of North Macedonia.
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Abstract
Electronics have unique characteristics that make their production and distribution a source of high impact on the environment, as well as hazardous toxicological waste. In the past few decades, the need for e-waste management has significantly advanced by standardizing protocols for their treatment. However, huge amounts of e-waste do not succumb to such standardized protocols, which is why these landfills pose a serious threat to soil health. This study reviews recent reports on the environmental risks of e-waste, with a particular focus on routes of exposure and human toxicities. In general, the main environmental basin that deposits untimely treated electronic waste is the soil. It was determined that specific e-waste chemical elements and compounds are: a) toxic heavy metals (lead, cadmium, chromium and mercury) and b) organic pollutants (poly-brominated diphenyl ethers (PBDE), polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), poly-brominated biphenyls (PBB), poly-halogenated aromatic hydrocarbons (PHAHs), biphenyl A (BPA) and others. This research also covers the mechanisms that mostly affect the retention and transformation of these components in soils exposure routes and toxicity effects in the human population are reviewed.
| Item Type: | Conference or Workshop Item (Poster) |
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| Subjects: | Agricultural Sciences > Agriculture, forestry, and fisheries Natural sciences > Earth and related environmental sciences |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Agriculture |
| Depositing User: | Biljana Balabanova |
| Date Deposited: | 17 Sep 2024 08:30 |
| Last Modified: | 17 Sep 2024 08:30 |
| URI: | https://eprints.ugd.edu.mk/id/eprint/34456 |
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