Flame retardant emission from e-waste recycling operation in northern Vietnam: Environmental occurrence of emerging organophosphorus esters used as alternatives for PBDEs

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 514, Issue , 2015, Pages 492-499

  Matsukami, Hidenori ^a,b   Tue, Nguyen Minh ^c,d   Suzuki, Go ^a   Someya, Masayuki ^e   Tuyen, Le Huu ^d   Viet, Pham Hung ^d   Takahashi, Shin ^c,f   Tanabe, Shinsuke ^c   Takigami, Hidetaka ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c EHIME UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d VIETNAM NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Viet Nam)

^e The Tokyo Metropolitan Research Institute for Environmental Protection   (Japan)

^f EHIME UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

E waste recycling; Open burning; Open storage; Organophosphorus flame retardants; Polybrominated diphenyl ethers; Tetrabromobisphenol A

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATIONS; ETHERS; FLAME RETARDANTS; ORGANIC POLLUTANTS; RECYCLING; SEDIMENTS; SOILS; WASTES;

E-WASTE RECYCLING; OPEN BURNING; ORGANOPHOSPHORUS FLAME RETARDANTS; POLYBROMINATED DIPHENYL ETHER (PBDES); TETRABROMOBISPHENOL A;

ELECTRONIC WASTE;

(2 ETHYLHEXYL)DIPHENYL PHOSPHATE; 1,3 PHENYLENE BIS(DIPHENYL PHOSPHATE); BISPHENOL A BIS(DIPHENYL PHOSPHATE); FLAME RETARDANT; ORGANOPHOSPHATE; POLYBROMINATED DIPHENYL ETHER; TETRABROMOBISPHENOL A; TRIPHENYL PHOSPHATE; TRIS(METHYLPHENYL)PHOSPHATE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; 4,4' ISOPROPYLIDENEDIPHENOL; BENZHYDRYL DERIVATIVE; DIPHENYL ETHER DERIVATIVE; ORGANOPHOSPHORUS COMPOUND; PHENOL DERIVATIVE; POLLUTANT; POLYBROMINATED BIPHENYL; TRIS(2,3-DIBROMOPROPYL)PHOSPHATE;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRONIC WASTE; INCINERATION; LEGAL ASPECT; POLLUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECYCLING; RISK FACTOR; SEDIMENT; SURFACE SOIL; VIET NAM; WASTE MANAGEMENT; WASTE STORAGE; ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; POLLUTANT;

BENZHYDRYL COMPOUNDS; ELECTRONIC WASTE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; FLAME RETARDANTS; HALOGENATED DIPHENYL ETHERS; ORGANOPHOSPHATES; ORGANOPHOSPHORUS COMPOUNDS; PHENOLS; POLYBROMINATED BIPHENYLS; RECYCLING; VIETNAM;

EID: 84925483095     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2015.02.008     Document Type: Article

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