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Bioremediation Techniques for E-waste Management

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Waste Bioremediation

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Bioremediation or microbial cooperation can improve the e-waste management process in a greener way. Every management strategy is concentrated upon the organic and inorganic portion of the e-waste. Organic part consists of variety of thermo and thermosetting plastic with the presence of halogenated material. Microbes are involved in the process of dehalogenation in many ways. Microbes can manage the leaching of inorganic portion of e-waste which consists of both metallic and nonmetallic components.

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Abbreviations

WEEE:

Waste of electrical and electronic equipment

E-waste:

Electronic waste

DNA:

Deoxyribose nucleic acid

CRT:

Cathode ray tube

PCBs:

Polychlorinated biphenyls

NADH:

Nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide

HXRF:

Handheld X-ray fluorescence analysis

IC:

Ion Chromatography

ICP:

Inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry

OES:

Optical Emission Spectroscopy, Mt: Million Ton

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Pant, D., Giri, A., Dhiman, V. (2018). Bioremediation Techniques for E-waste Management. In: Varjani, S., Gnansounou, E., Gurunathan, B., Pant, D., Zakaria, Z. (eds) Waste Bioremediation. Energy, Environment, and Sustainability. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-7413-4_5

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