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While use of asbestos materials in developed nations has been decreasing because of the harmful health effects of asbestos dust mining, processing and use of the ancient material in developing countries is increasing. The regulatory mechanism for use, handling and disposal of asbestos and associated waste in developing countries are weak and information on asbestos-related diseases is scanty bu...

We have read the recently published article under an interesting title " Environmentally Related Diseases and the Possibility of Valuation of Their Social Costs " by I. Hajok et al. [1], the main objective of which was " to estimate the risks of the morbidity of the asbestos-related lung cancer in the general population of Poles as the result of increased exposure to asbestos fibers which occur...

Asbestos is still used in Mongolia in the energy and construction sectors, among others. However, limited data is available on asbestos consumption and asbestos-related disease in Mongolia. The purpose of this paper is to present the available information on the importation of asbestos into Mongolia. We used data on annual asbestos imports between 1996 and 2014 from Mongolian Customs Statistics...

Since the ban on use of asbestos due to its carcinogenic properties, removal cement, representing major asbestos-containing waste, has proven be a challenge in most industrial countries. Asbestos-containing products are mainly disposed landfills and have remained untreated. Bioremediation involving bacteria previously reported ability Pseudomonas aeruginosa release iron from flocking waste thro...

Numerous industrial and experimental facilities have been set up, particularly in the last ten years, as a result of studies and researches on treating asbestos-containing waste (ACW) to stabilise it and to enable its reuse. Some of the stabilisation processes reduce the hazards of ACW by imprisoning in a cement or resonoid matrix. Other processes modify the fibrous structure of asbestos and tr...

In 2007, research was carried out to determine the type and amount of asbestos fibers in a Croatian factory with a long history of making asbestos-containing products.Since the 1970s, asbestos fibres have been considered carcinogenic in humans i.e as a known cancer-causing agent. In the environment, asbestos fibres are inactive and naturally resist biodegradation. In time, fibres can only be gr...

Asbestos is a generic term for a group of six naturally-occurring, fibrous silicate minerals that have been widely used in commercial products. These minerals are more commonly found in nonfibrous forms that are not asbestos. Asbestos minerals fall into two groups or classes, serpentine asbestos and amphibole asbestos. Chrysotile, a serpentine asbestos, possesses relatively long and flexible cr...

This paper provides a narrative of the national intervention strategy in Sweden aimed to restrict the industrial use of asbestos. For many years, asbestos was imported for widespread industrial use, resulting in large amounts throughout Swedish society. In 1972, the whistle was blown in a Communist Party parliamentary motion describing asbestos as a health hazard and requesting action to prohib...