Table 2: List of selected items.
Country |
Name of the Landfill |
Studies |
Ivory Coast |
Akouédo |
1. Characterization of the chemical and microbiological pollution of the environment of the Akouédo landfill, Abidjan-Côte d’Ivoire [15]. 2. Toxicological risks of cohabitation with a landfill: Case of Akouédo in Côte d’Ivoire [5]. 3. Relative mobility of mercury from the Akouédo landfill and risk of contamination of the Continental Terminal aquifer [28]. |
Nigeria |
Aba-Eku |
Assessment of groundwater pollution near Aba-Eku municipal solid waste dumpsite [38]. |
Nigeria |
Olushosun |
1. Reproductive toxicity assessment of Olusosun municipal landfill leachate in Mus musculus using abnormal sperm morphology and dominant lethal mutation [31]. 2. Evaluations of groundwater contamination by leachates around Olusosun open dumpsite in Lagos metropolis, southwest Nigeria [17]. 3. An exploratory evaluation of the potential pulmonary, neurological and other health effects of chronic exposure to emissions from municipal solid waste fires at a large dumpsite in Olusosun, Lagos, Nigeria [39]. |
Ghana |
Kronum |
Distribution of heavy metals in soils from abandoned dump sites in Kumasi, Ghana [35]. |
Ghana |
Amakon |
Distribution of heavy metals in soils from abandoned dump sites in Kumasi, Ghana [35]. |
Ghana |
Kpone |
Assessment of heavy metal contamination in soils at the Kpone landfill site, Ghana: Implication for ecological and health risk assessment [13]. |
Ghana |
Agbogbloshie |
1. Soil concentrations of polybrominated diphenyl ethers and trace metals from an electronic waste dump site in the Greater Accra Region, Ghana: Implications for human exposure [16]. 2. Bioaccessibility and human health risk assessment of metal (loid) s in soil from an e-waste open burning site in Agbogbloshie, Accra, Ghana [18]. |
Togo |
Agoè |
Assessmentof the quantity of heavy metals in the Agoè landfill (Lomé-Togo): Case of lead, cadmium, copper, nickel and zinc [40]. |
Niger |
Niamey 2000 |
Physico-chemical characterization of landfill leachate: Case of the uncontrolled landfill of Niamey 2000 [25]. |
Sierra Leone |
Granville Brook |
Environmental and Health Impact of Solid Waste Disposal in Developing Cities: A Case Study of Granville Brook Dumpsite, Freetown, Sierra Leone [26]. |
Senegal |
Mbeubeuss |
1. Low-level environmental exposure to lead and renal adverse effects: A cross-sectional study in the population of children bordering the Mbeubeuss landfill near Dakar, Senegal [29]. 2. Childhood saturnism near a landfill [41]. 3. Effects of environmental cadmium and lead exposure on adults neighboring a discharge: Evidences of adverse health effects [33]. 4. Renal impairment assessment on adults living nearby a landfill: Early kidney dysfunction biomarkers linked to the environmental exposure to heavy metals [34]. 5. [11] (Cabral 2012). 6. Contamination of chicken eggs near the Mbeubeuss landfill site in a suburb of Dakar, Senegal, with dioxins, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and hexachlorobenzene [12]. |
Gambia |
Bakoteh |
Preliminary and detailed engineering design study of the Bakoteh dump Site [24]. |