Sentences with phrase «toxic chemical waste»

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These new activities for Veolia include the likes of plastics and chemicals recycling, toxic waste handling, the management of water for aquaculture, the production of energy from waste or biomass and the capture of methane.

Securing dangerous or controlled substances: Businesses in a wide range of industries use biometric devices — with hand - readers being a particularly popular option — to help monitor access to toxic chemicals, radioactive waste, narcotic drugs and other potentially hazardous materials.

After Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria, millions of Americans have found out the hard way how close they are to toxic waste and how easily they can be exposed as harmful chemicals that leech into floodwaters and wash through homes.

But in this Gilead, Atwood has imagined a time when our nightmares about the perils of toxic waste, radioactive fallout, chemical and biological warfare, nuclear sabotage and the building

This approach assumes that if all communities take the NIMBY attitude, government agencies will not be able to find any backyard in which to dump toxic chemicals and nuclear waste, and the system will become plugged.

On top of this, millions of tons of untreated waste from the used diapers are added to our landfills as well, along with potentially - toxic chemicals that can find their way into our ground water tables.

He is the author or co-author of numerous reports including the Wasting of Rural New York State - Factory Farms and Public Health, Volatile Vinyl - the New Shower Curtain's Chemical Smell, Baby's Toxic Bottle - BPA Leaching From Popular Baby Bottles, No Silver Lining - An Investigation Into BPA in Canned Foods, and Toxic Toys R Us.

Overflowing sewers, runoff from chemical plants and seepage from toxic waste sites have created a hazardous stew in the waters covering much of the nation's fourth largest city, and officials are just beginning to grapple with the health problems looming.

Each gas drilling well requires 5 acres of road and well pad, 4 to 9 million gallons of water mixed with 50,000 gallons of hundreds of different chemicals — many of them highly toxic carcinogens, neurotoxins and endocrine disrupters (as well as many untested synergistically on living beings) forced into a spider web of miles of pipeline that is soon thick coated with radioactive radium when 60 % of that toxic brew is on its way back upward as gas waste «brine.»

The layer of sand Honeywell has applied to the Onondaga Lake bottom to keep toxic mercury and other chemicals in place has failed at least three times since 2012, spilling wastes onto areas of the lake that had been relatively clean.

In the summer of 1978, residents of Love Canal, a suburban development in Niagara Falls, NY, began protesting against the leaking toxic waste dump in their midst - a sixteen - acre site containing 100,000 barrels of chemical waste that anchored their neighborhood.

The researchers are now looking into developing a large - scale commercial model of the process, in partnership with Ronin8, a Richmond, B.C. recycling company that separates the different plastics, fibres and metals in electronic waste streams without using toxic chemicals or losing precious metals.

In the last decade, chemists have worked to develop reusable catalysts that separate out from the end products without the help of other often - toxic and waste - generating chemicals.

Some gadgets are designed to help measure and curb energy usage, cut down on wasted paper, and clean without the need for toxic chemicals.

Once competition between males was no longer a selective force, producing toxic chemicals seems to have become a maladaptive waste of energy.

But when in the early 1960s the German chemist Kurt Zosel hit on a novel way of removing caffeine from coffee beans, he could not have foreseen how the same technique would become the basis of a method for destroying toxic waste, the inspiration for ways of making industrially important chemicals without con - ventional, toxic solvents, and a bone of contention for real ale aficionados.

The waste is also physically hot as well as laced with numerous toxic and corrosive chemicals and heavy metals that threaten the integrity of the pipes and tanks carrying the waste, risking leakage.

They could one day be sent into waste - water plants to hunt out toxic chemicals.

He found 72 toxic chemicals exuding from the hazardous waste sites, but 113 at dumps taking household waste.

The sight of the dogs sniffing out toxic levels of chemicals helps students understand and explain to their communities the distribution of toxic waste.

When grown in TNT - laden areas, which include old mines, waste sites, and military conflict zones, plants absorb and remove the toxic chemicals from the soil through their roots in a process known as remediation.

Wiedinmyer wondered if this burning waste could be an underappreciated source of air pollutants, from greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide to tiny particles and toxic chemicals that can harm human lungs.

And they put their new genes to work, degrading toxic chemicals, such as chlorobenzene, that are commonly found at nuclear waste sites.

It can also be used for collection of toxic waste, chemicals or oil spill and in drug delivery systems, for odor control and sanitation after fire.

Put together, arsenic, chromium, lead, mercury and pesticides are the leading causes of such toxic hot spots largely created by mining, metal smelting, chemical manufacture, agriculture, heavy industry, tanneries and waste disposal, among other activities.

Environmental hazards such as climate change, waste and pollution from toxic chemicals are undermining global health.

Liver also plays an important role - if liver is backed up by toxic waste (pesticides, herbicides, chemicals, too much estrogen) then it will have a hard time clearing the waste and thus your skin will show this through acne.

Maybe that's why there's such higher diabetes risk, since more than 90 % of the persistent organic pollutants comes from animal foods — unless you work in a chemical factory, or stumble across some toxic waste.

The function is to get the body into a healthy condition, such that the natural metabolic processes are not hindered by the presence of processed food waste, synthetic chemicals and toxic substances.

It's a given that outdoor air is host to any number of toxic chemicals, from car to fumes, to factory waste, as well as pesticides and herbicides sprayed on industrial farms and your neighbor's lawn.

The company recently launched a campaign encouraging facilities producing chemical waste — much of it toxic, flammable and corrosive - to detox their laboratories on a regular basis.

Richmond is nestled within a ring of five major oil refineries, three chemical companies, eight Superfund sites, dozens of other toxic waste sites, highways, two rail yards, plus a port that supplies tankers.

The kibble should not contain preservatives, chemicals, dyes or materials that your dog's body can not metabolize because these materials leave toxic wastes in the body.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) classifies dog waste as an environmental pollutant - placing it in the same category as toxic chemicals!

Among them are: to filter metabolic waste such as urea, mineral salts, and various toxins from circulating blood; to help regulate the volume of body fluids and the blood levels of important chemicals and hormones; to initiate the recirculation of purified blood throughout an animal's system; and to facilitate the excretion of the filtered - out waste products (mixed with water to form urine) before they reach toxic concentrations in the body.

Staff doubles it as metaphor for the use of certain chemicals in hormone therapy, while vistas of desolate freeways and toxic waste sites flicker in and out; Soshoux appears as an infrared inversion, a swift comment on technology's mercilessness in transforming human beings into anonymous data points.

Not only does it cut down on waste, but it is far healthier for babies, as conventional new clothes are often laden with toxic chemicals, as research by Greenpeace has shown.

The industrial waste as well as the chemicals used in cities and fields can produce an effect of bio-accumulation in the bodies of the inhabitants of neighboring areas, which occurs even when the amount of a toxic element in a given place is low.

A report released by EarthJustice and the Sierra Club in early February 2011 stated that there are many health threats associated with a toxic cancer - causing chemical found in coal waste called hexavalent chromium.

One final note, when it comes to the treatment of our environment I will be the first to say that I do not agree with the use of harsh chemicals, fossil fuels, clear cutting, dumping, toxic waste disposal, etc..

Thus, we are wasting ever increasing amounts of money to control ever decreasing amounts of toxic chemicals in our environment — resources that could be better used elsewhere.

From communities that are dealing with waterways that are contaminated with toxic chemicals from coal ash waste seeping into their waters to communities that are having drinking water supplies contaminated by fracking, our reliance on dirty energy sources is having a huge impact on water quality and quantity.

Industrial plants fill the air with smoke and dangerous chemicals, pollute the lakes and streams with waste and toxic by products, and wear out or damage parts of the surrounding land.

Along with organizations such as the Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives (GAIA) Philippines and Greenpeace Southeast Asia, we oppose these «waste to energy technologies» because they release large amounts of carbon dioxide that contribute to global warming, along with toxic chemicals that pollute the environment.

While nuclear energy is regarded as the lesser of the two evils when compared at an emission level to the burning of fossil - fuels, it may trump on the containment of the heat process, which burns in a contained nuclear reactor through an in - ward heat - chemical reaction called fission, but nuclear energy production is a chain from uranium mining to the toxic waste disposal and therefore as an entire process is an equally high risk environmental option.

«Nuclear waste remains radioactive for thousands of years and the nuclear industry has not come up with a technological process to deal with this highly toxic waste and similarly as toxic chemical industry dump their waste in the ground, so does the nuclear industry.

These practices are aimed at improving our energy and water efficiency, providing sustainable food, making eco-conscious purchasing decisions, eliminating toxic chemicals and pollution, and improving our solid waste management.

Major Environmental Issues: air pollution from heavy industry, emissions of coal - fired electric plants, and transportation in major cities; industrial, municipal, and agricultural pollution of inland waterways and sea coasts; deforestation; soil erosion; soil contamination from improper application of agricultural chemicals; scattered areas of sometimes intense radioactive contamination; ground water contamination from toxic waste.

Plastic waste was collected and analyzed to see in which form it's most commonly found, which toxic chemicals are used to create the plastics, and what recovery systems (i.e. recycling, composting, reuse) exist, if any.

This is happening to thousands of Americans right now — and the toxic waste is coal ash, the by - product of burning coal for energy.Coal - fired power plants produce approximately 131 million tons of waste per year, making coal combustion waste the second largest industrial waste stream in the U.S. Coal ash contains numerous hazardous chemicals, including arsenic, selenium, lead, mercury, cadmium, chromium, boron, thallium, and aluminum.