Sustainable recovery and recycling of scrap copper and alloy resources: A review

X Li, B Ma, C Wang, Y Chen - Sustainable Materials and Technologies, 2024 - Elsevier
Copper, as a bulk metal, has been widely used around the world in the past decades.
Historical consumption determines the supply of materials for recycling, as the scrap copper …

Overview of the recycling technology for copper-containing cables

L Li, G Liu, D Pan, W Wang, Y Wu, T Zuo - Resources, Conservation and …, 2017 - Elsevier
With the rapid development of the power industry and the constant update of electric and
electronic products, the quantity of waste wires also increases. Because the copper …

Release of chlorinated, brominated and mixed halogenated dioxin-related compounds to soils from open burning of e-waste in Agbogbloshie (Accra, Ghana)

NM Tue, A Goto, S Takahashi, T Itai, KA Asante… - Journal of Hazardous …, 2016 - Elsevier
Although complex mixtures of dioxin-related compounds (DRCs) can be released from
informal e-waste recycling, DRC contamination in African e-waste recycling sites has not …

Occurrence, profiles, and toxic equivalents of chlorinated and brominated polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in E-waste open burning soils

C Nishimura, Y Horii, S Tanaka, KA Asante… - Environmental …, 2017 - Elsevier
We conducted this study to assess the occurrence, profiles, and toxicity of chlorinated
polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (Cl-PAHs) and brominated polycyclic aromatic …

Dechlorination of polyvinyl chloride electric wires by hydrothermal treatment using K2CO3 in subcritical water

G Gandon-Ros, A Soler, I Aracil, MF Gómez-Rico - Waste Management, 2020 - Elsevier
Polyvinyl chloride (PVC) waste generation has significantly increased in recent years and
their disposal is considered a major environmental concern. Removal techniques of chlorine …

Reductive dechlorination of tetrachlorobisphenol A by Pd/Fe bimetallic catalysts

Q Huang, W Liu, W Huang - Journal of hazardous materials, 2013 - Elsevier
Abstract The Pd/Fe bimetallic catalysts of micron sizes were synthesized and the rates of
tetrachlorobisphenol A (TCBPA) degradation were measured under various conditions …

Characterization and production of fuel briquettes made from biomass and plastic wastes

MA Garrido, JA Conesa, MD Garcia - Energies, 2017 - mdpi.com
In this study, the physical properties of briquettes produced from two different biomass
feedstocks (sawdust and date palm trunk) and different plastic wastes, without using any …

Complex mixtures of brominated/chlorinated diphenyl ethers and dibenzofurans in soils from the Agbogbloshie e-waste site (Ghana): Occurrence, formation, and …

NM Tue, T Matsushita, A Goto, T Itai… - … science & technology, 2019 - ACS Publications
The distribution and toxic equivalents (TEQs) of brominated and chlorinated dibenzo-p-
dioxins/dibenzofurans (PBDD/Fs and PCDD/Fs) in soils from Agbogbloshie e-waste site …

PCBs, PBDEs and dioxin-related compounds in floor dust from an informal end-of-life vehicle recycling site in northern Vietnam: contamination levels and implications …

S Takahashi, NM Tue, C Takayanagi, LH Tuyen… - Journal of Material …, 2017 - Springer
Floor dusts from Vietnamese end-of-life vehicle (ELV)-processing households were
investigated to elucidate the contamination levels and exposure risk of polychlorinated …

Formation pathways of polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins and dibenzofurans from burning simulated PVC-coated cable wires

M Zhang, T Fujimori, K Shiota, X Li, M Takaoka - Chemosphere, 2021 - Elsevier
Open burning of PVC-coated cables is a major source of polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins
and dibenzofurans (PCDD/F). In the present study, the formation characteristics of PCDD/F …