In the mid-1980s, a citizens' organization in New Jersey --Clean Ocean Action, led by Cindy Zipf --launched an aggressive campaign to protect the oceans from the dumping of toxic sewage sludge. They were up against extraordinary power: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) opposed them; New York and New Jersey environmental officials opposed them; nearly every municipal government opposed ...

For over 50 years, the people of Amskapi Piikani (Blackfeet) Nation have relayed information “something bad” being covertly dumped within their remaining homelands. These stories, addressing contaminated waste and locations rumored dump sites, also been linked with perceived cancer clusters among residents who live Blackfeet Nation. The concept environmental injustice suggests that often most v...

Tailings dams in mining areas frequently experience the phenomenon of haphazard dumping and stacking a large amount tailings waste. Under influence surface runoff groundwater infiltration, heavy metals from waste can migrate to surrounding underground soil, resulting extensive metal pollution. To analyze pollution level ecological risk an abandoned lead–zinc mine dam, this study first employed ...

Healthy soils are essential for progressive agronomic activities. Organic fertilization positively affects agro-ecosystems by stimulating plant growth, enhancing crop productivity and fruit quality improving soil fertility. Soil health food security the key elements of Agriculture 3.0. Landfilling and/or open-dumping animal wastes produced from slaughtering cause environmental pollution releasi...

The paper describes environmental project ZmapujTo.cz which is intended to fight against illegal waste dumps in the Czech Republic with using geographic information systems (GISs). The smartphone/tablet GIS reporting application ZmapujTo has been developed. This free available mobile application enables to report illegal dumps and also overloaded containers of municipal waste. The project Zmapu...

In the contemporary world industry, urbanization, and capitalism have destroyed the environment on such a large-scale that to solve this problem would require expensive and long-term treatments. Public participation is a low-cost way to address these issues. Women are able to protect the environment because some of the environment’s problems begin from the home. The current research is using th...

The objectives of this project are to create a spatial digital database consisting of LU/LC and road network maps with the help of IRS-ID, PAN & LISS-III merged data and SOI toposheets, to create database consisting of traffic volume, vehicle density and details of solid waste and to evolve an optimal transportation route maps for efficient, safe and economic disposal of solid waste. The final ...