CEST Proceedings are published under the ISSN 2944-9820.
Plastics in WEEE screens: difficulties and opportunities to improve the recycling rate
(Corresponding) Arduin R., Grimaud G., Charbuillet C., Laratte B., Perry N.
Topic:
Electric and electronic waste
Nowadays the screens collected by the official e-waste schemes in France are mostly comprised of Cathode Ray Tube (CRT). Nevertheless, Flat Panel Display (FPD) collection should increase in the following years. Among other differences in material compositions, FPD screens have higher plastic...Read more
Flame Retardants (polybrominated diphenyl ethers, PBDEs) and Organophoshates, OPFRs) In Dust from Canadian Fire Stations
Brown R., Tarrant D., Gill R., Dhaliwal J., Sarala R., Patton S., Park J., (Corresponding) Petreas M.
Topic:
Urban environment and health
Dust is a good medium to assess indoor exposures to many persistent organics, including flame retardants. With concerns regarding persistence, bioaccumulation and toxicity of many flame retardants, a series of bans and regulations have created shifts in their usage. For firefighters, exposures to...Read more
Keywords:
flame retardants, PBDEs, OPFRs, fire stations, dust
Characterisation of Radioactive Contaminated Waste: Alpha-Induced Air-Fluorescence Detection Under Daylight Conditions
(Corresponding) Gamage K., Crompton A.
Topic:
Hazardous waste management
Short travel of alpha particles in environments complicated the detection and characterisation of alpha-emitting contamination in mixed radiation fields in nuclear decommissioning sites. As a result, detection of alpha-induced radioluminescence became popular in nuclear decommissioning applications...Read more
Development of efficient techniques for the removal of brominated flame retardants from polymer blends with composition that simulates WEEE
(Corresponding) Charitopoulou M., Papadopoulou L., Achilias D.
Topic:
Electric and electronic waste
Waste electric and electronic equipment (WEEE) has increased enormously because of the rapid expansion and consumption of electronic devices and their short lifespan. Recycling of WEEE is challenging, due to the presence of various materials including glass, metals and plastics (Buekens and Yang...Read more
Application of catalytic hydrodehalogenation for the removal of brominated flame retardants
Nieto-Sandoval J., (Corresponding) Benito del Olmo R., Munoz M., De Pedro Z., Casas J.
Topic:
Water treatment
The aim of this work is to evaluate the feasibility of aqueous-phase catalytic hydrodehalogenation (HDH) for the fast and environmentally-friendly degradation of the flame retardant tetrabromobisphenol A (TBBPA). TBBPA is a pollutant of emerging concern characterized by a strong persistence that...Read more
