Informal e-waste recycling: Environmental risk assessment of heavy metal contamination in Mandoli industrial area, Delhi, India

Environmental Science and Pollution Research

Volumn 21, Issue 13, 2014, Pages 7913-7928

  Pradhan, Jatindra Kumar ^a   Kumar, Sudhir ^a  

^a JAYPEE UNIVERSITY OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

Electronic waste; Environmental risk assessment; Heavy metals; Informal recycling; Multivariate analysis

Indexed keywords

BIOACCUMULATION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); ENVIRONMENTAL RISK; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; HEAVY METAL; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; POLLUTION EFFECT; RECYCLING; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOIL POLLUTION; WASTE; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

DELHI; INDIA;

CYNODON DACTYLON;

GROUND WATER; HEAVY METAL; SOIL; SOIL POLLUTANT;

ANALYSIS; CHEMISTRY; ELECTRONIC WASTE; INDIA; INDUSTRY; RECYCLING; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOIL; SOIL POLLUTANT;

ELECTRONIC WASTE; GROUNDWATER; INDIA; INDUSTRY; METALS, HEAVY; RECYCLING; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOIL; SOIL POLLUTANTS;

EID: 84902545353     PISSN: 09441344     EISSN: 16147499     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11356-014-2713-2     Document Type: Article

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