نتایج جستجو برای: hazardous waste sites

تعداد نتایج: 370314  

2008
Manfred Wiebelt

There is no doubt that an improved hazardous waste management in mining and mineral processing will reduce environmental and health risks in South Africa. However, skeptics fear that waste reduction, appropriate treatment and disposal are not affordable within the current economic circumstances, neither from an economic nor from a social point of view. This paper mainly deals with the first asp...

2009
Carla Guerriero John Cairns

BACKGROUND Evaluating the economic benefit of reducing negative health outcomes resulting from waste management is of pivotal importance for designing an effective waste policy that takes into account the health consequences for the populations exposed to environmental hazards. Despite the high level of Italian and international media interest in the problem of hazardous waste in Campania littl...

2001
Bruce E. Pivetz

The EPA Regional Ground Water Forum is a group of EPA professionals representing Regional Superfund and Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) Offices, committed to the identification and resolution of ground-water issues impacting the remediation of Superfund and RCRA sites. The Forum is supported by and advises the Superfund Technical Support Project. Emerging technologies that could p...

2001
D. M. Crumbling

U.S. EPA’s Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response is promoting more effective strategies for characterizing, monitoring, and cleaning up hazardous waste sites. In particular, the adoption of a new paradigm holds the promise for better decision-making at waste sites. This paradigm is based on using an integrated triad of systematic planning, dynamic work plans, and real-time measurement te...

Journal: :South African medical journal = Suid-Afrikaanse tydskrif vir geneeskunde 2013
Karen Du Toit Johannes Bodenstein

The Constitution of the Republic of South Africa provides that everyone has the right to an environment that is not harmful to their health and well-being. The illegal dumping of hazardous waste poses a danger to the environment when pollutants migrate into water sources and ultimately cause widespread infection or toxicity, endangering the health of humans who might become exposed to infection...

Journal: :iranian journal of health sciences 0
abdoliman amouei reza hoseini hoseinali asgharnia hourieh fallah hosein faraji zahra aghalari

background and purpose: it is extremely important to recognize the qualitative and quantitative characteristics of this type of waste before any planning on them due to the lack of the prepared program in the field of household hazardous waste (hhw) management in the country. this research has been done in babol, iran, in order to achieve this important goal. materials and methods: the cross-se...

2001
Bruce E. Pivetz

The EPA Regional Ground Water Forum is a group of EPA professionals representing Regional Superfund and Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) Offices, committed to the identification and resolution of ground-water issues impacting the remediation of Superfund and RCRA sites. The Forum is supported by and advises the Superfund Technical Support Project. Emerging technologies that could p...

2001

Executive Summary U.S. EPA’s Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response is promoting more effective strategies for characterizing, monitoring, and cleaning up hazardous waste sites. In particular, the adoption of a new paradigm holds the promise for better decision-making at waste sites. This paradigm is based on using an integrated triad of systematic planning, dynamic work plans, and on-sit...

2011
Wendell P. Ela David L. Sedlak Morton A. Barlaz Heather F. Henry Derek C.G. Muir Deborah L. Swackhamer Eric J. Weber Robert G. Arnold P. Lee Ferguson Jennifer A. Field Edward T. Furlong John P. Giesy Rolf U. Halden Tala Henry Ronald A. Hites Keri C. Hornbuckle Philip H. Howard Richard G. Luthy Anita K. Meyer A. Eduardo Sáez Frederick S. vom Saal Chris D. Vulpe Mark R. Wiesner

BACKGROUND This commentary evolved from a workshop sponsored by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences titled "Superfund Contaminants: The Next Generation" held in Tucson, Arizona, in August 2009. All the authors were workshop participants. OBJECTIVES Our aim was to initiate a dynamic, adaptable process for identifying contaminants of emerging concern (CECs) that are likely t...

Journal: :Environmental Health Perspectives 1999
D Warshawsky

A symposium on "Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs) in Carcinogenesis" was presented at the third International Congress of Pathophysiology held in Lathi, Finland, 28 June-3 July 1998. The congress was also sponsored by the International Union of Biological Sciences and the International Society of Free Radical Research. Institutional support for the symposium included the Electric Power Re...

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