Description: Sustainable E-Waste Management: Challenges, Opportunities, and Health Implications explores various means that can be utilized to provide complete remediation of the devastating impact of e-wastes on health and the environment. The book provides the complete challenges associated with improper e-waste management and its associated impacts, while also offering potential solutions to counter the demerits. Sections cover e-waste recycling and management, risks and opportunities, hazardous substances present, occupational health hazards, capacity building, evidence about health impacts, e-waste and its leachates' impact, health implications, the role of government regulations, and Sustainable Development Goals. Users will find an in-depth analysis of the numerous environmental and health issues that are associated with poor handling of e-wastes along with mitigative solutions.
Brief description:
Dr. O.O. Ayeleru is a SEnior Research Fellow at the Centre for Nanoengineering and Advanced Material, Department of Engineering Metallurgy, University of Johannesburg, South Africa. He obtained his B.Eng. degree in Chemical Engineering from the Federal University of Technology, Yola, Adamawa State, Nigeria, and MTech. and PhD degrees from the University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, South Africa. His field of research is in the Advanced Materials Synthesis, Municipal Solid Waste Management, Soft-Computing Applications, Fruit and Vegetable Research, Water and Wastewater Treatment, Electrical Energy Consumption and Renewable Energy Research. He was part of the team who developed a Feasibility Study Report on Biomethane Generation from Municipal Organic Solid Waste for the City of Johannesburg in 2016 and is a co-innovator of a patented innovation (filed in South Africa).