The bedroom of 74-year-old Cherifa Attia smells like burnt rubber. The vast phosphate processing plant beside her home has been belching out toxic fumes into the atmosphere, blighting this Tunisian ...

The design of a reusable film adsorbent with easy solid–liquid separation for the removal of phosphate is necessary and significant but remains hugely challenging. Herein, the hyperbranched ...

Waste products from phosphate processing include toxic gases such as sulphur dioxide and ammonia, heavy metals like lead and arsenic, and phosphogypsum, which contains radioactive radium.