Health risk assessment of toxic elements in sedimentable dust from landfills-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Health risk assessment of toxic elements in sedimentable dust from landfills

Published:2023 Issue:7-8 Volume:88 Page:777-791
ISSN:0352-5139
Container-title:Journal of the Serbian Chemical Society
language:en
Short-container-title:JSCS

Author:

Marceta Una¹^ORCID,Vucinic-Vasic Milica²^ORCID,Ninkov Jordana³^ORCID,Ilic Strahinja²^ORCID,Vujic Bogdana¹^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. University of Novi Sad, Technical Faculty “Mihajlo Pupin”, Zrenjanin, Republic of Serbia

2. University of Novi Sad, Faculty of Technical Sciences, Novi Sad City, Republic of Serbia

3. Institute of Field and Vegatable Crops, National Institute of the Republic of Serbia, Laboratory for Soil and Agroecology, Novi Sad City, Republic of Serbia

Abstract

Four monitoring campaigns of sedimentable dust were provided from two large non-sanitary landfills (Zrenjanin and Novi Sad) in Serbia during 2021. Particle size analysis by laser diffraction and inductively coupled plasma-optical emission spectrometry were carried out in order to obtain the particle size distribution (PSD) and the toxic elements (TEs) concentrations. The health risk assessment of the landfill employees was performed according to the United States Environmental Protection Agency methods based on TEs concentrations. The PSD results demonstrated that the majority of sedimentable dust samples mass were not concentrated neither within PM2.5 neither within PM10 fraction. Analysis revealed high concentration of TEs at both landfills: an extremely high concentrations of Cr and Zn in samples from Zrenjanin landfill was detected. Health risk potential of elements was as follows for both landfills: Cr > Co > Pb > Ni > Zn > Cu. According to the results, maximal hazard index for landfill employees in Zrenjanin (0.197) and Novi Sad (0.113) showed that non-cancer risk was very low. For both landfill sites, cancer risk was highest for Cr (2.75?10-5 for Zrenjanin and 2.02?10-7 for Novi Sad), though still within the defined threshold for tolerable cancer risk.

Funder

Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development of the Republic of Serbia

Publisher

National Library of Serbia

Subject

General Chemistry

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