Potentially toxic elements in street dust from an urban city of a developing country: ecological and probabilistic health risks assessment

Autor: Rahat Khan, Rifat Shahid Shammi, Abubakr M. Idris, Tanmoy Roy Tusher, Shafiqul Islam, Md. Saiful Islam, Tapos Kormoker, Ram Proshad, Md. Humayun Kabir
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: Environmental Science and Pollution Research. 28:57126-57148
ISSN: 1614-7499
0944-1344
DOI: 10.1007/s11356-021-14581-3
Popis: Anthropogenic activities in and around the urban highways followed by aerodynamic processing generate street dusts, which can cause adverse health effects through different exposure pathways. Hence, considering the high degree of industrialization, concomitant unplanned urbanization, and rapid demographic augmentation, street dust samples from an urban city (Gazipur, Bangladesh) were investigated in terms of potentially toxic elements (using ICP-MS) to evaluate their ecological and health risks. Mean concentrations (± SD) of lead (Pb), copper (Cu), chromium (Cr), cadmium (Cd), zinc (Zn), nickel (Ni), and arsenic (As) in the analyzed air-dried samples were 40.9 ± 13.6, 44.9 ± 15.4, 83.3 ± 19.0, 9.1 ± 5.4, 239.1 ± 34.7, 33.5 ± 10.4, and 2.1 ± 0.8 mg/kg, respectively with heterogeneous distribution which were 0.2 (As) to 82.7 (Cd) times higher than the available internationally recommended limits. Element-specific environmental indices revealed that contamination levels followed the descending order as Cd > Zn > Cu > Pb > Cr > Ni > As, whereas individual ecological risks followed the descending order as Cd > Cu > Pb > Ni > Zn > Cr > As. Sampling site-specific composite indices indicated that sampling sites with high loadings of traffic, population, industrialization, and urbanization were mostly polluted. Multivariate statistical approaches also deduced the similar origins of the studied elements. In terms of the investigated elements, the study site possessed high potential ecological risks, although non-carcinogenic and carcinogenic risks through different pathway’s exposures seem insignificant, where children are more vulnerable than adults.
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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