Levels of trace metals inside can be higher than the sources of contamination outside. It underscores the need for households to take care to prevent those contaminants being brought indoors.
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The world recently celebrated the end of leaded petrol, as sales ceased in Algeria.
Early exposure to lead pollution may lead to less mature personality traits as an adult.
There is an urgent need for legislation dealing specifically with electronic waste in Nigeria.
Technical advances are reducing the volume of e-waste generated in the US as lighter, more compact products enter the market. But those goods can be harder to reuse and recycle.
Unregulated and hazardous lead acid battery manufacturing and recycling plants are often adjacent to residential areas, agricultural and grazing lands.
A giant ocean fish swims into the heart of industrial Port Kembla looking for food. What if we take its presence, a few km from an ancient, living midden, as a symbol of both new and old ways to learn in the age of the Anthropocene?
Serbia was pumping out lead pollution while Britain was still in the stone age.
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