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A Mexican company called Biofase has developed a way to turnavocado pits into 100% biodegradable plastic resins. Avocado pits are normally discarded as waste. Biofase will collect some of the estimated 30,000 metric tons of avocado pits discarded each month for processing. The company has patent...
In its turn, the environmental protection agency of the state of São Paulo published its technical manual, contemplating methods, standards and deadlines for investigation and clean-up of contaminated areas. 4 Regulation of waste What types of waste are regulated and how? The management of solid...
“Heavy metals” are the chemical elements which, in their standard state, have a specific gravity of more than about 5 g cm−3 i.e. their densities are five times greater than water. These constitute a very heterogeneous group of elements greatly...
grants exemptions based on the presence of lactating and pregnant employees and presence of female guests in the premises during operating hours [39]. CSC, through the issuance of Memorandum Circular No. 12 series of 2015, considers the physical size of the agency, number of female employees, ...
National Environment Agency (2016a) ‘National Recycling Programme’ (WWW), Available at: http://www.nea.gov.sg/energy-waste/3rs/national-recycling-programme; Accessed 2/8/16. 56 National Environment Agency (2016b) ‘Smoking prohibited’ (WWW), Available at: http://www.nea.gov.sg/public...
1, 2013. One rationale for the proposed exemption is that the higher gate fees small landfills would need to charge to comply with the ETS would lead to an increase in illegal waste dumping. The Climate Change Response Act 2002 allows the government to grant exemptions if these ...
The COVID-19 pandemic will have profound impacts on the waste sector which may not be initially evident but shall manifest in due course of time. The present situation demands the need to highlight the essential role that solid waste management must play as a humanitarian response towards growin...
Emission of PFAS from industrial waste leads to water, air, and soil contamination. Due to this ubiquitous nature, combined with the fact that PFAS in humans are known to have carcinogenic and reprotoxic effects and to cause vaccine resistance and depression of the immunity system, PFAS may ...