A relative risk assessment of the open burning of WEEE

• DOI: 10.1007/s11356-019-04282-3
• Publication Date: 2019-02-21T17:56:30Z
• Authors: Alessandra Cesaro; Vincenzo Belgiorno; Giuliana Gorrasi; Gianluca Viscusi; Mentore Vaccari; Giovanni Vinti; Aleksander Jandric; Maria Isabel Dias; Andrew Hursthouse; Stefan Salhofer
• Keywords: Air Pollutants; Inhalation Exposure; Air pollutants; Electronic waste; Environmental risk assessment; Informal recycling; Incineration; Electronic waste; Environmental risk assessment; Dioxins; Risk Assessment; 01 natural sciences; 7. Clean energy; Electronic Waste; Air pollutants; Electronic waste; Environmental risk assessment; Informal recycling; Environmental Chemistry; Pollution; Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis; 12. Responsible consumption; Metals; 13. Climate action; 11. Sustainability; Humans; Recycling; Plastics; Informal recycling; Air pollutants; Research Article; 0105 earth and related environmental sciences

Waste electric and electronic equipment (WEEE) represents a potential secondary source of valuable materials, whose recovery is growing business activity worldwide. In low-income countries, recycling carried out under poorly controlled conditions resulting in severe environmental pollution. High concentrations both metallic organic pollutants have been confirmed air, soil, water, sediments countries with informal areas. The release these contaminants into the environment presents risk to health exposed population that has widely acknowledged but still needs be quantified. aim this work was evaluate relative from inhalation associated open burning different kinds WEEE. shrinking core model applied estimate concentration metals which would released during incineration types addition, generation dioxins same practice estimated, based on plastic content results provided for first time comparative analysis posed WEEE components, proposing methodology address absolute assessment workers