Sentences with phrase «dispose of toxic»

Today, companies are more careful about how they store and dispose of toxic waste, but accidents and polluting disasters still happen.

This followed an incident where a Trafigura - chartered ship hired contractors to dispose of toxic waste, which was then dumped in Abidjan, the Ivorian capital.

This helps the lymphatic system fight infection, destroy cancerous cells, and dispose of the toxic waste products of cellular functioning.

Here's how to dispose of toxic waste safely.

It was not previously known that cancer cells could dispose of the toxic SRC protein this way.

Ultimately, such cleanups most often require the investment of hundreds of millions of dollars, at minimum, as well as the basic infrastructure to properly dispose of toxic waste.

A Government Accountability Office report says environmental regulators are failing to adequately enforce rules for wells used to dispose of toxic waste from oil and gas drilling

Underground aquifers can be identified by aboveground formations, helping officials bring cleaner water to people by pointing out where not to place a landfill or dispose of toxic waste.

Finally, that the onset of Alzheimer's disease coincides with immunosenescence, indicates that the immune system is constantly disposing of toxic oligomers while leaving plaque untouched, until due to its decline with age, the immune system is unable to remove those oligomers and the disease appears.

Nearly four years ago, Cincinnati school officials decided to adopt safety procedures for handling and disposing of toxic and hazardous chemicals in the high schools and to bring some order to chemical storerooms in the schools.

State - level rules that do exist specify that new schools can't be built near facilities that use, store, release or dispose of toxics that range from petroleum products to pesticides.

Not exact matches

«As far as insuring that the toxic waste shards were securely generated and then disposed of properly, which was the crux of the ceremony, I can say with certainty that happened on our end.»

Hey multinational companies: it's a pretty jerk move to ship your toxic waste to developing nations because they will dispose of it for cheaper.

Disposable liners are non toxic biodegradable liners that can either be flushed or disposed of in the garbage.

The pit and skin of an avocado can be toxic to pets — so please make sure you dispose of them safely.

Since then, we have all learned a lot about the risks of fracking — about how the toxic chemicals used can migrate into drinking water, about how methane can leak out of well casements, about the danger of disposing of billions of gallons of polluted wastewater the process produces.

An example of fermentation engineering is the development of a microbial culture - based treatment system to degrade a phenol, which is toxic and very stable, to a liquid that can be safely disposed.

As Elizabeth Grossman reveals in High Tech Trash: Digital Devices, Hidden Toxics, and Human Health (Island Press, $ 29.95), her dense and damning book about the afterlife of techno - trash, much of what we cast away is improperly disposed of — regardless of our efforts — and ends up leaching toxins into the air, water, and soil.

The EPA also knows that this so - called e-waste contains cadmium, mercury and other toxic substances, and it is responsible for making sure that lead - laden monitors and television sets with cathode - ray tubes (CRT) are disposed of properly and the parts recycled.

Management tactics range from using bone charcoal to soak up the carcinogen and then dispose of it as toxic waste to chemically transforming hexavalent chromium to a more benign form.

The ability to dispose of proteins that are either aberrant or (in the worst case) toxic is fundamental to a cell's survival.

As long as the elimination system is in good working order, and the amount of toxic residue does not outweigh the rate at which it can be disposed of, in general, the body thrives.

This drainage helps the lymphatic system fight deadly infections, destroys cancerous cells and disposes of cellular toxic products.

Fat soluble antioxidants such as vitamin E's and A's may help prevent lipid membrane oxidation and methoxylated flavonoids (flavonoids [plant antioxidants] with free hydroxyl groups are much more easily disposed of by the liver and kidneys and have trouble entering the brain, and usually have very little biological effect) may also prevent damage and prevent the toxic aggregation of amyloid beta peptides.

Something so toxic it has to be disposed of safely... ready to find out what it is!

Unlike fat - soluble vitamins, water - soluble vitamins are disposed of regularly by the body, so there is less of a chance of them building up to toxic levels.

This ash is not an easy material to dispose of since it is laced with arsenic, lead, mercury, and other toxic materials.

But now due to aesthetic and sanitary environmental reasons; driven by increasing populations disposing of ever more; with resultant air and water pollution, and new toxic man made materials and modern commercial industrial chemical cocktails (some with a toxic half life of thousands of years); we now find the need to construct landfills with the contents better contained and separated from the environment.

The first thing he discovered is that solar panels in fact contain significant quantities of toxic metals like lead, chromium and cadmium — known carcinogens — and yet no nation outside of Europe has a plan to safely dispose of them.

This toxic sludge often must be disposed of at hazardous waste sites [7].

Safely dispose of products with toxic chemicals, such as fluorescent lights, batteries, and paint.

After all, they aren't going to biodegrade or go in the compost pile, and they're made with precious resources (many of which are toxic to the environment when disposed of incorrectly), so you may want to do your part to minimize the mountains of e-waste that are generated every single day of the year.

The really troubling part of that statistic is that only 18 percent of electronics are properly disposed of at the end of their lives, which means toxic chemicals are ending up in landfills and water supplies here or overseas.

«Numerous countries are developing strict regulations to avoid the trillions of toxic and non-biodegradable used - cigarette filters that are disposed of into the environment each year — our method is just one way of achieving this,» said Professor Jongheop Yi, from Seoul National University.

«Meanwhile, toxic dumping continues to rise: in 2010 alone, power plants used unsafe and leak - prone coal ash ponds to dispose of wastes containing 113.6 million pounds of toxic metals, a nearly ten percent increase from 2009.

And perhaps the scariest thing about the toxic ash is that as of now, there are no federal regulations for disposing the stuff and maintaining the storage sites.

Similarly, in the southern China city of Guangzhou, disposing toxic sludge into the nearby river required nothing more than a hired boat.

Electronic devices contain toxic metals which can cause health problems when incorrectly disposed of - not to mention the impact it has on the environment.

Generally, this kind of business is subject to minimal regulation, but environmental laws to limit the scope of businesses that may legally dispose of certain kinds of waste such as toxic materials (e.g. drugs, batteries, things containing lead or mercury such as many electronic parts, petroleum products, rubber tires), and how certain materials must be handled (e.g. old refrigerators have to have doors removed).

More importantly, they contain mercury, a toxic substance, and they should be specially disposed of, a fact of which many consumers aren't aware.