This study aims to identify and address the challenges associated with managing waste in Ghana. Additionally, it proposes specific measures to mitigate climate change and its effects on the environment and human health resulting from WM. A descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted with 101 ...
The improper handling of industrial hazardous waste (IHW), which comprises large amounts of toxic chemicals, heavy metals, or irradiation substances, is a considerable threat to human health and the environment. This study aims to quantify the life cycle environmental impacts of IHW landfilling and...
Industrial emissions are one of the primary air pollutants and waste fumes produced from several activities cause a crisis to individual health and cause ecological damage. Above all, due to the industrial emissions and consequent odor issues, safety and occupational health of employees becomes a sign...
Research has been done to provide information on the effects of every chemical. Because waste chemicals often mix together it will also be necessary to learn how the combinations of these chemicals affect human health. Some governments have realized how serious the problem is and are making laws ...
Urbanization level. The improvement of urbanization level has both positive and negative effects on pollution. Urbanization can improve the agglomeration effect of cities. The improvement of agglomeration effect can not only promote the sharing of public resources such as infrastructure, health care, but...
based on field study. The lack of information on source-specific chemicals and relevant chemical-specific toxicities limits the current understanding of the adverse impacts of exposure to industry-emitted PM, which also hinders the formulation of effective control strategies for human health protection....
Classification and categorization of treatment methods for ash generated by municipal solid waste incineration: a case for the 2 greater metropolitan regio... The primary goal of managing MSW incineration residues is to avoid any impact on human health or the environment. Incineration residues consist...
”And those are only the human health costs, they do not mention impacts on climate, impacts on fisheries or farmland productivity.” Making things more efficient and convenient has its limits, but humans keep trying to beat the consequences of Earth’s dwindling natural resources while ignoring ...
Risk assessment is a multi-step procedure of estimating the nature and probability of adverse human health effects that are caused by HMs in an environmental medium32. Risk assessment is based on the consideration of human exposure to soil or dust via three different pathways, namely oral intake...
In the meantime, economic powers continue to justify the current global system where priority tends to be given to speculation and the pursuit of financial gain, which fail to take the context into account, let alone the effects on human dignity and the natural environment. Here we see how en...