A review of heavy metal risks around e-waste sites and comparable municipal dumpsites in major African cities: Recommendations and future perspectives

ES Okeke, A Enochoghene, BC Ezeudoka, SD Kaka… - Toxicology, 2024 - Elsevier
In Africa, the effects of informal e-waste recycling on the environment are escalating. It is
regularly transported from developed to developing nations, where it is disassembled …

E‐waste: mechanisms of toxicity and safety testing

C Eze, M Vinken - FEBS Open bio, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Currently, information on the toxicity profile of the majority of the identified e‐waste
chemicals, while extensive and growing, is admittedly fragmentary, particularly at the cellular …

West African e-waste-soil assessed with a battery of cell-based bioassays

CTG Eze, AA Otitoloju, OO Eze, TE Ugochukwu… - Science of The Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
Soil samples randomly taken from major e-waste sites in West Africa (Nigeria, Benin and
Ghana) were examined for an extensive range of organic contaminants. Cytotoxicity …