Environmental Pollution of Heavy Metals in a Vietnamese Informal E-waste Processing Village

• Published in: Applied environmental research Vol. 42; no. 1
• Main Authors: Hien Thi Thu Ngo, Li Liang, Diep Bich Nguyen, Hai Ngoc Doan, Pensri Watchalayan
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Environmental Research Institute, Chulalongkorn University 16.03.2020
• Subjects: E-waste; Environmental pollution; Heavy metals; Indoor soil; Outdoor soil; Vietnamese village

Inappropriate handlings of informal e-waste processing have increasingly become a global environmental and public health issue of concern. This study was conducted to quantify the concentrations of five heavy metals found in the environmental media at an exposed village and a reference village in No...