E-waste: an assessment of global production and environmental impacts.

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• Publication year

  2009

• Venue

  Science of the Total Environment

• Publication date

  2009-12-20

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Engineering, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2009.09.044PMID 19846207
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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