Pollutant Diseases, Remediation and Recycling

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Lichtfouse, Eric (Editor), Schwarzbauer, Jan (Editor), Robert, Didier (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Series: Environmental Chemistry for a Sustainable World, 4
• Subjects: Environment.; Neurochemistry.; Environmental chemistry.; Ecotoxicology.; Air pollution.; Water pollution.; Environmental Chemistry.; Waste Water Technology / Water Pollution Control / Water Management / Aquatic Pollution.; Atmospheric Protection/Air Quality Control/Air Pollution.

Pollution has no borders. This popular 70’s saying from early ecologists is surprisingly still true nowadays despite overwhelming scientific evidence and public awareness of the occurrence of artificial toxic substances in water, food, air, living organisms and the environment. This book presents ad...

Table of Contents:

• 1. School air quality: pollutants, monitoring and toxicity
• 2. Organic contaminants from industrial wastewaters: identification, toxicity and fate in the environment
• 3. Fly ash pollutants, treatment and recycling
• 4. Organotin compounds from snails to humans
• 5. Surfactants: chemistry, toxicity and remediation
• 6. Cadmium, lead, thallium: occurrence, neurotoxicity and histopathological changes of the nervous system
• 7. Lead, arsenic, cadmium, mercury: occurrence, toxicity and diseases
• 8. Plants as monitors of lead air pollution
• 9. Carcinogenic nitrosamines: remediation by zeolites
• 10. Dioxins and furans: sources, impacts and remediation.