Monitoring of organic micropollutants in Ghana by combination of pellet watch with sediment analysis: E-waste as a source of PCBs

Marine Pollution Bulletin

Volumn 86, Issue 1-2, 2014, Pages 575-581

  Hosoda, Junki ^a   Ofosu Anim, John ^b   Sabi, Edward Benjamin ^b   Akita, Lailah Gifty ^c   Onwona Agyeman, Siaw ^a   Yamashita, Rei ^a   Takada, Hideshige ^a  

^a TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GHANA   (Ghana)

^c FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

Electronic waste; Linear alkylbenzenes; Molecular markers; PCBs; Pellet watch; Triphenylbenzene

Indexed keywords

ORGANIC POLLUTANTS; PELLETIZING; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS; WASTE INCINERATION; WASTES; WATCHES;

ELECTRONIC WASTE; LINEAR ALKYL BENZENE; MOLECULAR MARKER; PCBS; TRIPHENYLBENZENE;

ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT;

ALKYLBENZENE; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBON; RESIN; PLASTIC; WATER POLLUTANT;

ARTICLE; COMBUSTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRONIC WASTE; GHANA; ORGANIC POLLUTION; POLLUTION MONITORING; RIVER; RURAL AREA; SEASHORE; SEDIMENT; URBAN AREA; ANALYSIS; CHEMISTRY; CITY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; PROCEDURES; WATER POLLUTANT;

CITIES; ELECTRONIC WASTE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; GHANA; PLASTICS; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS; POLYCYCLIC HYDROCARBONS, AROMATIC; RIVERS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EID: 84922611417     PISSN: 0025326X     EISSN: 18793363     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2014.06.008     Document Type: Article

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