Hazardous waste status of discarded electronic cigarettes

Waste Management

Volumn 39, Issue , 2015, Pages 57-62

  Krause, Max J ^a   Townsend, Timothy G ^a  

^a J Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

E cigarette; E waste; Hazardous waste; Lead; Nicotine; WEEE

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONIC WASTE; HAZARDS; LAWS AND LEGISLATION; LEACHING; LEAD; NICOTINE; TOBACCO; TOXICITY;

COMMERCIAL CHEMICALS; CURRENT REGULATIONS; HAZARDOUS WASTE REGULATION; HAZARDOUS WASTES; REGULATORY THRESHOLDS; TOXICITY CHARACTERISTIC LEACHING PROCEDURES; TOXICITY CHARACTERISTICS; WEEE;

WASTE DISPOSAL;

ELECTRONIC CIGARETTE; LEAD; NICOTINE; HAZARDOUS WASTE;

HAZARDOUS WASTE; LEAD; SMOKING; TOXICITY; WASTE DISPOSAL; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; ECOLOGICAL PROCEDURES; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GOVERNMENT REGULATION; HAZARDOUS WASTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TOXICITY CHARACTERISTIC LEACHING PROCEDURE; UNITED STATES; WASTE EXTRACTION TEST; WASTE MANAGEMENT; ANALYSIS; CLASSIFICATION; ECONOMICS; ELECTRONIC CIGARETTE; LEGISLATION AND JURISPRUDENCE; WASTE DISPOSAL;

CALIFORNIA; UNITED STATES;

ELECTRONIC CIGARETTES; HAZARDOUS WASTE; REFUSE DISPOSAL; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

EID: 84928068715     PISSN: 0956053X     EISSN: 18792456     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.wasman.2015.02.005     Document Type: Article

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