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Sustainable Solutions for the Prevention and Control of Mercury Pollution

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Hazards and Sustainability".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2021) | Viewed by 2727

Special Issue Editors

Institute of Carbon Science and Technology (INCAR), Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), 33011 Oviedo, Spain
Interests: mercury; metal contamination; carbon materials; gas cleaning; soil amendments
Carbon Science and Technology Institute, Spanish Council for Scientific Research (INCAR-CSIC), 33011 Oviedo, Spain
Interests: wastewater treatment; soil remediation, control of emissions; heavy metals; adsorbents; carbon materials; nanoparticles
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Institute of Carbon Science and Technology (INCAR), Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), 33011 Oviedo, Spain
Interests: carbon materials; metal contamination; PAH contamination; gas cleaning; soil amendments
Institute of Carbon Science and Technology (INCAR), Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), 33011 Oviedo, Spain
Interests: carbon materials; mercury control; PAH contamination; gas cleaning; soil amendments

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

To protect people and the environment from mercury, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), through the Minamata Convention of Mercury, has set an objective to act and make anthropogenic emissions and releases of mercury and mercury compounds a matter of the past. In this context, different objectives have been set, focusing on eliminating mercury mining and the use of mercury, as well as developing control measures for emissions produced in industrial activities. This includes the control of emissions to air and releases to land and water, with the goal of finding alternatives to mercury and mercury-containing products, and designing control processes. In this way, it is intended to avoid future contamination by mercury, but, also, to implement methods and processes to clean already contaminated soils and waters.

This Special Issue intends to gather innovative contributions, providing an overview of the most recent achievements and potential challenges, for sustainable solutions in the prevention and control of mercury pollution. It is the intention of the editors to cover all the areas related to mercury, and, with this aim in mind, the articles will provide a multidisciplinary perspective of the actions, alternatives and developments currently in progress to comply the Minamata Convention objectives, with sustainability being the mandatory and inescapable principal attribute ot the policies, actions, methods and technologies provided.

Dr. M. Rosa Martinez-Tarazona
Dr. M. Antonia López Antón
Dr. Roberto García Fernandez
Dr. Elena Rodríguez Vazquez
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • artisanal and small scale gold mining
  • mercury accumulation
  • mercury control in energy production
  • industrial mercury control
  • occupational exposure to mercury
  • mercury sorbents
  • soil amendments for mercury
  • alternatives to the use of mercury

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Case Report
Multimedia Pollution Prevention of Mercury-Containing Waste and Articles: Case Study in Taiwan
by Wen-Tien Tsai
Sustainability 2022, 14(3), 1557; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/su14031557 - 28 Jan 2022
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Abstract
In response to the Minamata Convention on Mercury, effective 16 August 2017, the Taiwan government in recent years started to implement the sustainable material management of mercury-containing waste and articles. This was completed by a cross-ministerial collaboration for preventing the adverse effects of [...] Read more.
In response to the Minamata Convention on Mercury, effective 16 August 2017, the Taiwan government in recent years started to implement the sustainable material management of mercury-containing waste and articles. This was completed by a cross-ministerial collaboration for preventing the adverse effects of mercury on human health and the environment, based on the multimedia approach. The legislative or regulatory frameworks on the control and prevention of mercury emissions and releases have been established in environmental distributions, including air, water, soil, waste, food, and article (or commodity). Therefore, the central authorities included the Environmental Protection Administration (EPA), Council of Agriculture (COA), Ministry of Health and Welfare (MOHW), Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA), and Ministry of Labor (MOL). Furthermore, the implementation plans covered the reduction in mercury-containing products by restricted use and bans on its use, remediation of soil and groundwater for mercury-pollution sites, control of stationary source emissions, environmental monitoring, and compulsory recovery of mercury from electronic waste such as waste lightings. A successful case study on the recovery of mercury from electronic waste using a thermal treatment, and its capture control by activated carbon, was also addressed in this work. Due to the effectiveness of source control in Taiwan, the annual reported amount of mercury emissions from the stationary air pollution sources indicated a decreasing trend from 1.989 metric tons in 2016 to 1.760 metric tons in 2019. More significantly, the ministerial collaboration in implementing the Convention in Taiwan also echoed the United Nations (UN) Agenda 2030 for sustainable development goals (SDGs). Full article
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