Flame retardants and plasticizers in a Canadian waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) dismantling facility
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216224%3A14310%2F19%3A00110365" target="_blank" >RIV/00216224:14310/19:00110365 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048969719318005?via%3Dihub" target="_blank" >https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048969719318005?via%3Dihub</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.04.265" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.04.265</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Flame retardants and plasticizers in a Canadian waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) dismantling facility
Original language description
Here we report on the concentrations of 79 flame retardants (FRs) and plasticizers, including 34 polybrominated diphenyl ethers or PBDE congeners, 17 "novel" brominated FRs (NBFRs), 15 dechloranes, and 13 organophosphate esters (OPEs) in air (n = 9) and dust (n = 24) samples from an active waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) dismantling facility in Ontario, Canada, collected in February-March 2017. This is the first study of its kind in North America. The facility processes a range of WEEE including monitors, computers, printers, phones, and toys. Of the 79 target compounds, at least 60 were detected at a frequency of at least 50% in both air and dust. Dust and air concentrations were dominated by three compounds: BDE-209 (median 110,000 ng/g and 100 ng/m(3), respectively), DBDPE (median 41,000 ng/g and 41 ng/m(3)), and TPhP (median 42,000 ng/g and 27 ng/m(3)). Levels of PBDEs, NBFRs, and dechloranes were close to two orders-of-magnitude higher in dust from the dismantling facility than in residential homes, while OPEs were one order-of-magnitude higher. Congener profiles of PBDEs indicated debromination of BDE-209. We calculated that a total mass of 44 +/- 1 mg day(-1) of 79 target analytes were released to air from WEEE processed in the dismantling hall and a further 270 +/- 91 mg day(-1) were released to dust. It is clear that WEEE dismantling facilities are a serious concern as a source of emissions for a wide range of FRs at relatively high concentrations to both workers and the immediate environment.
Czech name
—
Czech description
—
Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
—
OECD FORD branch
10511 - Environmental sciences (social aspects to be 5.7)
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/LH12074" target="_blank" >LH12074: Emerging brominated flame retardants in the environment</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)<br>I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2019
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Science of the Total Environment
ISSN
0048-9697
e-ISSN
1879-1026
Volume of the periodical
675
Issue of the periodical within the volume
July
Country of publishing house
NL - THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS
Number of pages
10
Pages from-to
594-603
UT code for WoS article
000467391900055
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85064634624