Investigating the chromium status, heavy metal contamination, and ecological risk assessment via tannery waste disposal in sub-Saharan Africa (Kenya and South Africa)

Autor:	Richard O, Oruko, Joshua N, Edokpayi, Titus A M, Msagati, Nikita T, Tavengwa, Henry J O, Ogola, Grace, Ijoma, John O, Odiyo
Rok vydání:	2020
Předmět:	Chromium Soil South Africa Metals Heavy Soil Pollutants Kenya Risk Assessment Environmental Monitoring
Zdroj:	Environmental science and pollution research international. 28(31)
ISSN:	1614-7499
Popis:	To mitigate the negative environmental and public health concerns associated with increased industrial discharges amid the rapid industrial growth, sub-Saharan African countries have instituted several environmental regulations and policies. However, a paradox of good environmental policies but inadequate enforcement exists in most of these countries, with information on the pollution level unknown due to poor monitoring resources. In this study, potentially toxic heavy metal contamination and physicochemical characteristics in effluents and dumpsite soils of two tanneries in Kenya (DB) and South Africa (BO) were evaluated during the dry and rainy season of 2018. Pollution levels and ecological risk in the dumpsite soils were assessed by adopting geoaccumulation index (I
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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