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Future implementation of international regulatory actions is expected according that the 25th UNEP Governing Council decided strengthening the management of mercury containing waste and the storage of elemental mercury. Provision of mercury management plan is necessary through the estimation for recoverable amount of mercury and management from domestic major mercury using and discharging facilities. The distribution of mercury from domestic major industries estimated through UNEP Toolkit level2. In this study, mercury emissions are estimated for major mercury containing waste and by-product discharging facilities using spread sheet toolkit provided by UNEP. Of these, primary metal production was found to be dominant to release mercury to all media.
Also in the result of previous study entitled "The study on estimation for amount of recoverable mercury and management plan in domestic major industrial facilities" conducted by NIER and Yonsei university, high concentration of mercury is discharging in wastewater sludge from primary metal production facility. The basic experiment for mercury recovery from high concentrating mercury containing wastewater sludge is performed through thermal treatment to find our proper temperature condition with introducing several treatment methods to recover or stabilize mercury in waste streams.
