Plans to distribute the next billion computers by 2015 creates lead pollution risk

Journal of Cleaner Production

Volumn 17, Issue 18, 2009, Pages 1620-1628

  Cherry, Christopher R ^a   Gottesfeld, Perry ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^b Occupational Knowledge International   (United States)

Author keywords

Computer market; Electronic waste; Lead acid battery; Lead pollution; Uninterruptible power supply

Indexed keywords

BACK-UP POWER; BATTERY MANUFACTURING; COMPUTER USERS; DEVELOPING WORLD; DIGITAL DIVIDE; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; ELECTRICITY SHORTFALL; ELECTRONIC WASTE; EMERGING ECONOMIES; LEAD EMISSION; LEAD EXPOSURE; LEAD POLLUTION; LEAD-BATTERY; NEGATIVE IMPACTS; SOFTWARE COMPANY; UNINTERRUPTIBLE POWER SUPPLY;

ACIDS; COMMERCE; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; ECONOMICS; ELECTRIC INVERTERS; ELECTRIC POWER TRANSMISSION NETWORKS; ELECTRIC POWER UTILIZATION; ENERGY CONVERSION; LEAD ACID BATTERIES; POWER SUPPLY CIRCUITS; RECYCLING; RISK PERCEPTION; UNINTERRUPTIBLE POWER SYSTEMS;

COMPUTERS;

EID: 70349332448     PISSN: 09596526     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2009.08.003     Document Type: Article

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