Cadmium Toxicity: Where is Cadmium Found? | Environmental ...
The most important sources of airborne cadmium are smelters. Other sources of airborne cadmium include burning fossil fuels such as coal or oil and incineration of municipal waste such as plastics and nickel-cadmium batteries (which can be deposited as solid waste) (Sahmoun et al. 2005).Cadmium may also escape into the air from iron and steel production facilities.
