"Waste"-ing away: Presence of Cu ions influences microbial degradation kinetics and metabo

• 作 者: Jie Chen Birget Moe Lizhong Zhu X.Chris Le
• 机 构: Department of Environmental Science, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China“,”Zhejiang Provinci
• 出 处: 环境科学学报（英文版）
• 发表日期: 2020年1期
• 关键词: BDE-47 Polybrominated diphenyl ethers Copper Pycnoporus sanguineus Microbial deg

Have you ever wondered what happened to that old cell phone you threw out last month? How about the 150 million other cell phones that were also disposed of in the past year? Although the world population has doubled in the past 50 years,global consumption of electronic devices has increased six fold (Belkhir and Elmeligi,2018) with nearly 45 million tonnes of electronic waste (e-waste) being produced in 2016 alone (Baldé et al.,2017).That equates to 6.1 kg of e-waste per person across the globe and is equivalent in weight to over four thousand Eiffel towers (Baldé et al.,2017)!