Open AccessThe Electronics Industry and Their Chemical Effects in the Environment of Arid Regions of Northwest of Mexico
Author(s) -
Gustavo López Badilla,
Juan Manuel Terrazas Gaynor
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
indian journal of advanced chemistry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2582-8975
DOI - 10.35940/ijac.b2007.101221
Subject(s) - arid , electronics , population , business , environmental protection , natural resource economics , environmental planning , engineering , environmental science , environmental health , economics , ecology , medicine , electrical engineering , biology
The electronics industry is very important in theworld economy, because is one of more dynamic activities, due toa great quantity and different electronic products manufacturedand used in a lot quotidian operations. This type of industry hasstrongly attracted attention to the environmental authorities in therecent 10 years, due to the deterioration that causes to theecosystems. The electronics industry generates a lot liquidchemical waste, which are thrown into soils and aquifers that areclose to companies. The interest of the relation of environmentalproblems and the electronics industry has manifested with morefrequency, from 20 years ago, especially in countries that regulatestrictly to care the ecosystems, being some countries of Europe,United States and Japan. The lack of control in certain liquidwastes from activities of the electronics industry, that aredischarged into areas next to companies or by the drainagesystems has caused a great deterioration of the ecosystems. Thisoccurs with some companies installed in the Mexicali citydedicated to manufacture electronic products. This city is locatedin the northwest of Mexico that is a border city with the UnitedStates of America (USA), where some soils and aquifers are beendamaged for some years. This has negative effects in thepopulation too, by the generation and proliferation of respiratorydiseases (RD), being a beginning of some environmental andhealth crisis, particularly in areas adjacent to these companies.This study examined the environmental problems of the industryelectronics in Mexicali, and the increase of persons that suffer ofRD, being principally in the winter periods. The analysis wasmade based in two steps, being the first to evaluate the pollution ofsoil and water levels with the principal climatic factors as relativehumidity (RH) and temperature variations around two companiesof the electronics sector to be correlated with the RD levels. Thesecond step was to analyze the pH of soil and water, around thethree companies evaluated in this city and to elaborate anevaluation of soils with the Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM)technique to know their level of deterioration. The study was madefrom 2018 to 2019.