Environmental hazards constitute a lot of economic development bottlenecks in Nigeria. In this study, the different forms of environmental problems facing households Ibadan were identified and composite indicators of hazard vulnerability were computed from them. Data were collected from 120 households from Ibadan metropolis using the stratified sampling method. Data were analyzed with the Facto...

the main objective of this investigation was to achieve a clear pattern of solid waste collection and disposal in selected hospital and health care establishments in certain cities of tehran province. this study was done in more than 82 percent of all hospitals with 3017 beds during the year 1996. solid waste produced per bed was evaluated to be 2.87 kg per day which was 8670 kg per day, for al...

The majority of British textile finishing firms discharge their waste water to sewers for treatment by local authorities, and their problems are mainly those of pretreatment torender the wastes acceptable, by removal of alkali or acid, and other materials that are prohibited. Firms discharging to watercourses have to purify the waste water to a high standard before discharge and this usually in...

Background: The energy crisis is a growing problem around the world, requiring creation of alternative sources that can generate less carbon dioxide and benefit ecosystem. Reutilization wastewater becoming emerging solution. Wastewater contains large amount organic matter be oxidized in microbial fuel cells (MFCs) to produce electricity. MFCs use biodegradable materials create presence microorg...

Partitioning-transmutation technology (PT) will produce radioactive wastes of different physical and chemical properties and in different amounts from those generated in the current nuclear fuel cycle. To assess quantitatively the effects of PT on waste disposal, we first analyzed the amounts of the PT wastes, assumed conditioning for each type of the waste, and then made an attempt to estimate...

Most of the methods adopted for processing of decayed fruits and degradation of wastes are not economical. In order to achieve 100% resource recovery from wastes, a novel type of waste treatment is to be followed, so that, the recovered byproducts could be used as biofertilizers. The objective of this study is identification of bacteria for studying their phenotypic and genotypic characters usi...