Waste refineries focusing on multiple outputs of material resources, energy carriers, and nutrients may potentially provide more sustainable utilization of waste resources than traditional waste technologies. This consequential life cycle assessment (LCA) evaluated the environmental performance of a Danish waste refinery solution against state-of-the-art waste technology alternatives (incinerat...

The term "triangle of death" was used for the first time by Senior and Mazza in the journal The Lancet Oncology referring to the eastern area of the Campania Region (Southern Italy) which has one of the worst records of illegal waste dumping practices. In the past decades, many studies have focused on the potential of illegal waste disposal to cause adverse effects on human health in this area....

Feathers are byproduct waste of poultry processing plant and produced in large amount. A small percentage of feather waste is steamed, chemically treated, ground, to form feather meal a dietary protein supplement for animals. Alternatively, keratin can be biodegraded by some Keratinolytic bacteria and in this study Keratinase producing bacteria and their Keratinolytic enzyme production was inve...

Heavy metal pollution increases day by day due to the intensive discharge of hazardous waste in soil and ground water. This hazardous waste generated by the activities of industries i.e. metal processing, surface treatment, smelting and mining, and the uncontrolled dumping of waste in soil. Living microorganisms used to reduce the contamination of heavy metal and waste by the process known as b...

On the basis of three years' intensive observation of the community and interactions at the Love Canal in Niagara Falls, NY, the present study addresses the psychosocial problem of creating and maintaining trust between the residents of an area contaminated by toxic waste materials and the government-sponsored scientific researchers and other health professionals who worked and studied there (t...

Germany is a most appropriate place for this exploration. Johannes Gutenberg’s western invention of the printing press about 1450 made the Renaissance possible and the printed text both possible and affordable. Martin Luther’s insistence fifty years later that the written word was not a danger to people and that the Bible and other texts should be “unchained” and made available in the vernacula...

Male house mice produce large quantities of major urinary proteins (MUPs), which function to bind and transport volatile pheromones, though they may also function as scavengers that bind and excrete toxic compounds ('toxic waste hypothesis'). In this study, we demonstrate the presence of an industrial chemical, 2,4-di-tert-butylphenol (DTBP), in the urine of wild-derived house mice (Mus musculu...