Cigarette butts abundance and association of mercury and lead along the Persian Gulf beach: an initial investigation.

Ostovar, Afshin and Dobaradaran, Sina and Schmidt, TC and Nabipour, Iraj and Raeisi, Alireza and saeedi, R and Khorsand, M and Khajeahmadi, N and Keshtkar, M (2017) Cigarette butts abundance and association of mercury and lead along the Persian Gulf beach: an initial investigation. Environmental science and pollution research international.

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Abstract

The toxic metal contents of cigarette butts and distribution of cigarette butts have not been studied well in maritime environment. In the present study, cigarette butts distribution and the associations of Hg and Pb from cigarette butts were monitored along the Persian Gulf with 10 days interval sampling time. The number of cigarette butts, and Hg and Pb associations of butts were found to vary widely between 2 and 38 items per square meter, 2.5 and 86.32 ng/g cigarette butt (CB), as well as 650 and 8630 ng/g CB, respectively. Wilcoxon signed-rank test showed that there were no significant differences between the number of butts, and Hg and Pb contents of the butts at different sampling times. Considering amount of cigarette butts littered yearly, this study demonstrates that remarkable toxic metals of Hg and Pb may enter maritime environment each year and may introduce critical hazards to aquatic organisms, enter food chain, and finally human body. KEYWORDS: Bushehr; Cigarette butts; Lead; Mercury; Persian Gulf

Item Type: Article
Subjects: WA Public Health
Divisions: Faculty of Public Health
Depositing User: محسن زارعی
Date Deposited: 02 Jul 2018 07:04
Last Modified: 02 Jul 2018 07:04
URI: http://eprints.bpums.ac.ir/id/eprint/6658

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