The adoption of sustainable waste management strategies is a challenge faced by most European countries, mainly due to the need generate less and replace landfills with new methods treatment, associated increases in separate collection recycling rates. This paper highlights significance environmental legislation regarding removal protect ecosystems. aim was predict ecological responses heavy me...

Brief Communication: Can recent ice discharges following the Larsen-B ice-shelf collapse be used to infer the driving mechanisms of millennial-scale variations of the Laurentide ice sheet? J. Alvarez-Solas, A. Robinson, and C. Ritz Dpto. Astrof́ısica y Ciencias de la Atmósfera, Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l’Environnement (LSCE)-UMR8212, France ...

Irrigation food crops are intensively cultivated on/or around the abandoned tin mine areas in Plateau State, Nigeria. Vegetables on contaminated soil a potential risk to human health, particularly, through consumption. The physico-chemical properties of and sediment revealed that soil/sediment were acidic, non- saline low fertility. Most heavy metals’ concentrations agricultural soils above DPR...

The chemical speciation of heavy metals (arsenic, chromium, copper, lead, zinc and tin) in the sediments of former tin mining catchment Bestari Jaya, Peninsular Malaysia was determined by using the latest version of the Community Bureau of Reference, usually called the BCR 3-step sequential extraction procedure. Furthermore, a fourth step was introduced for digestion and analysis of the residue...

The present study seeks to both estimate and analyze the rate of heavy metal changes in soils road margins affected by traffic on Fasa-Darab Road, Iran. Muller index, contamination factor (CF), Geoaccumulation index (Igeo), potential ecological risk (PERI), pollution load (PLI) were calculated determine rate. Principal component analysis was also employed most relevant parameters affecting PERI...

In this study, to investigate the contamination characteristics and potential health implications of heavy metals in road dust typical county central China, (Cd, Co, Cr, Cu, Mn, Ni, V, Pb, Zn) with large traffic flow, different functional areas Yangxin County, were determined. The results geo-accumulation index (Igeo) showed that V not polluted, while other caused degrees pollution. According p...

The Kolleru Lake is a famous Ramsar wetland of international significance. In this study heavy metal contents in water and sediment samples are reported. It is found that certain potentially toxic metal ions like chromium (4.5-80 µg/L), copper (1-20 µg/L), manganese (1-313 µg/L) and zinc (1.2-57 µg/L) are present in variable quantities in the lake water. When normalized with respect to concentr...

The Kolleru Lake is a famous Ramsar wetland of international significance. In this study heavy metal contents in water and sediment samples are reported. It is found that certain potentially toxic metal ions like chromium (4.5-80 µg/L), copper (1-20 µg/L), manganese (1-313 µg/L) and zinc (1.2-57 µg/L) are present in variable quantities in the lake water. When normalized with respect to concentr...

The concentration of some heavy metals: Al, Ca, K, Fe, Ti, Mg, Mn, V, Cr, Zn, Ni and Co in sediments from Pulicat Lake to Vadanemmeli along Chennai Coast, Tamil Nadu has been determined using EDXRF technique. The mean concentrations of Mg, Al, K, Ca, Ti, Fe, V, Cr, Mn, Co, Ni, and Zn were found to be 1918, 25436, 9832, 9859, 2109, 8209, 41.58, 34.14, 160.80, 2.85. 18.79 and 29.12 mg kg-1 respec...