An overview of toxic environmental releases from e-waste

E-Waste: Management, Types and Challenges

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 205-220

  Hossain, M Mosharraf ^a   Rahman, Ismail M M ^a,b   Begum, Zinnat A ^b   Hasegawa, Hiroshi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHITTAGONG   (Bangladesh)

^b KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

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