Polybrominated diphenyl ethers in plastic waste of electrical and electronic equipment: a case study in Belarus

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216224%3A14310%2F20%3A00116505" target="_blank" >RIV/00216224:14310/20:00116505 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs11356-020-09670-8" target="_blank" >https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs11356-020-09670-8</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11356-020-09670-8" target="_blank" >10.1007/s11356-020-09670-8</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Polybrominated diphenyl ethers in plastic waste of electrical and electronic equipment: a case study in Belarus

Original language description

Plastic waste of electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) can contain polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) that have been used as fire retardants for a long time. PBDEs were listed in the Stockholm Convention as persistent organic pollutants, so PBDE-containing plastic waste should be separated and disposed of in an ecologically sound manner. In the article, the results of bromine and PBDE content in plastic samples of WEEE collected in Belarus are presented. The screening method for bromine identification and HRGC/HRMS for PBDE identification were applied. It is shown that bromine is present in 43% of the 111 studied samples. Most often, Br-containing plastic was found in CRT monitor, CRT TVs and LCD monitor (about 50%), printers (35%), and LCD TVs (25%). PBDEs were revealed in 12 Br-containing samples, representing TVs, monitors, and printers. The sum of n-ary sumation 10PBDEs varied from 6.6 to 21,000 mu g/kg. BDE-209 dominated in 9 samples (75% of cases); BDE-183, in two; and BDE-47 and BDE-99, in one sample. Based on the low content of PBDEs in the plastic, year of equipment production, and year of restriction of PBDEs applied in the countries-manufacturers, it was concluded that the presence of PBDEs in plastic is a consequence of contaminated waste recycling. Despite the relatively low concentrations of PBDEs (below the limit values established by the Stockholm and Basel conventions for POP wastes), further research is necessary with an extension of the list of analyzed types of equipment and identification of other brominated flame retardants.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10511 - Environmental sciences (social aspects to be 5.7)

Project

<a href="/en/project/LM2015051" target="_blank" >LM2015051: Research Centre for Toxic Compounds 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

Publication year

2020

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Environmental Science and Pollution Research

ISSN

0944-1344

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

27

Issue of the periodical within the volume

25

Country of publishing house

DE - GERMANY

Number of pages

8

Pages from-to

32116-32123

UT code for WoS article

000541061500005

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85086729216