Occurrences and inventories of heavy metals and brominated flame retardants in wastes from printed circuit board production

Environmental Science and Pollution Research

Volumn 21, Issue 17, 2014, Pages 10294-10306

  Zhou, Xiaoyu ^a   Guo, Jie ^a   Zhang, Wei ^a   Zhou, Peng ^a   Deng, Jingjing ^a   Lin, Kuangfei ^a  

^a EAST CHINA UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Brominated flame retardant; Heavy metal; Inventory; PCB production; Powdered solid waste; TCLP

Indexed keywords

BROMINE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; HEAVY METAL; LEACHING; POLLUTION POLICY; SOLID WASTE; WASTE DISPOSAL;

DANGEROUS GOODS; DIPHENYL ETHER DERIVATIVE; FLAME RETARDANT; HEAVY METAL; POLLUTANT; POLYBROMINATED BIPHENYL; TETRABROMOBISPHENOL A; WASTE;

ANALYSIS; DANGEROUS GOODS; MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY; POLLUTANT; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; WASTE;

ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; FLAME RETARDANTS; HALOGENATED DIPHENYL ETHERS; HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCES; MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY; METALS, HEAVY; POLYBROMINATED BIPHENYLS; WASTE PRODUCTS;

EID: 84906795011     PISSN: 09441344     EISSN: 16147499     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11356-014-2927-3     Document Type: Article

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