Recycling of Used Lead-Acid Batteries : Guidelines for Appraisal of Environmental Health Impacts / Katherine von Stackelberg [and four others].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stackelberg, Katherine von, author.

Series:

International development in focus.

International development in focus

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Environmental sampling--Methodology.

Environmental sampling.

Lead-acid batteries.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 100 pages) : illustrations, maps.

Other Title:

Recycling of Used Lead-Acid Batteries

Place of Publication:

Washington, DC : World Bank, 2021.

Summary:

"This document includes a pragmatic framework for designing representative studies and developing uniform sampling guidelines to support estimates of morbidity that are explicitly linked to exposure to land-based contaminants from used lead acid battery recycling (ULAB) activities. A primary goal is to support environmental burden of disease evaluations, which attempt to attribute health outcomes to specific sources of pollution. The guidelines provide recommendations on the most appropriate and cost-effective sampling and analysis methods to ensure the collection of representative population-level data, sample size recommendations for each contaminant and environmental media, biological sampling data, household survey data, and health outcome data. These guidelines focus on small-scale ULABs that are known to generate significant amounts of lead waste through the smelting process, as well as other metals including arsenic and cadmium. Data obtained following these recommendations can be used to support consistent, comparable, and standardized community risk and health impact assessments at contaminated sites in low- and middle-income countries. These data can also be used to support economic analyses and risk management decision-making for evaluating site cleanup and risk mitigation options in the most cost-effective and efficient manner. Following these recommendations will facilitate comparisons and meta-analyses across studies by standardizing data collection efforts at the community level." -- Provided by publisher.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Publisher Number:

10.1596/978-1-4648-1820-2