Tracking the Global Distribution of Persistent Organic Pollutants Accounting for E-Waste Exports to Developing Regions

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 798-805

  Breivik, Knut ^a,b   Armitage, James M ^c   Wania, Frank ^c   Sweetman, Andrew J ^d   Jones, Kevin C ^d  

^a NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR AIR RESEARCH   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^d LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INDUSTRIAL EMISSIONS; POLLUTION; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS; WASTE DISPOSAL; WASTES;

CHEMICAL MANAGEMENT; ELEVATED CONCENTRATIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL TRANSPORT; HISTORICAL EMISSIONS; LONG RANGE TRANSPORT; PERSISTENT ORGANIC POLLUTANT (POP); PERSISTENT ORGANIC POLLUTANTS; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL (PCBS);

ORGANIC POLLUTANTS;

POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL; AIR POLLUTANT;

CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DEVELOPING WORLD; ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY; EMISSION INVENTORY; GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; LIFE CYCLE ANALYSIS; PCB; PERSISTENT ORGANIC POLLUTANT; VOLATILIZATION; WASTE TECHNOLOGY;

AIR POLLUTANT; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; ELECTRONIC WASTE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; LIFE CYCLE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PERSISTENT ORGANIC POLLUTANT; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; VOLATILIZATION; WASTE DISPOSAL; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT; ANALYSIS; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; POLLUTION; THEORETICAL MODEL;

AIR POLLUTANTS; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; ELECTRONIC WASTE; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION; MODELS, THEORETICAL; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS;

EID: 84955506413     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.5b04226     Document Type: Article

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