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Pollution characteristics and health risks of heavy metals in road dust in Ma’anshan, China

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Road dust contains various heavy metals, which are re-suspension in the air under the action of wind and other external forces, threatening people’s health all the time. Road dust was collected in the industrial heavy traffic area (IHT), non-industrial heavy traffic area (HT), urban area (UA), and study recreation area (SR) of Ma’anshan. The pollution degree of heavy metals in the four areas was calculated and demonstrated IHT > HT > UA > SR. In addition to the Ni (24.24 mg kg−1)metals, the metals concentrations of Cr (74.14 mg kg−1), Cu (91.8 mg kg−1), Zn (393.03 mg kg−1), Cd (9.93 mg kg−1), and Pb (72.85 mg kg−1) were all higher than the local soil background values. Cu comes from traffic emissions, Pb, Cd, and Zn mainly come from industrial emissions, as well as traffic emissions. While Cr and Ni mainly come from industrial emissions and local soil re-suspension. The non-carcinogenic risk of each heavy metal to children is 10 times higher than that of adults. Among them, the non-carcinogenic risk of Cr, Cd, and Pb to children is close to 1, so great attention should be paid to it. According to the study of enrichment factor (EF) and geo-accumulation index (Igeo), Cd is extremely polluted and it is imperative to reduce Cd pollution.

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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 52176095), Anhui Provincial Natural Science Foundation (No. 2008085J25).

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    Ya Liu, Tao Jin, Shuihua Yu & Huaqiang Chu

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Ya Liu: writing—original draft, conceptualization. Tao Jin: writing—review and editing. Shuihua Yu: writing—review and editing, validation. Huaqiang Chu: writing—review and editing, validation, supervision, and funding acquisition. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.

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• The concentration of heavy metals in road dust from different functional areas of Ma’anshan was detected.

• The pollution degree of six heavy metals and the sources of seven metals were analyzed and discussed.

• The health risks of six heavy metals to the human body were calculated and analyzed.

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Liu, Y., Jin, T., Yu, S. et al. Pollution characteristics and health risks of heavy metals in road dust in Ma’anshan, China. Environ Sci Pollut Res 30, 43726–43739 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-023-25303-2

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