Besides for the general ban, a number of other policy and regulatory tools targeting PCBs have been developed, including a directive governing disposal of PCB that aims for a phase-out of equipment with PCB by 2010 (EC1996), a ‘Strategy for dioxins , furans and PCB’Footnote5(European Comm...
In order to avoid problems of treatment and disposal, it is necessary to work on the requests for the input of technology on waste minimization [1,2,3,4]. In the case of non-hazardous waste, it can be returned to the production process using appropriate technologies with reasonable ...
Recently, the amount of waste, particularly municipal solid waste (MSW), has been rapidly growing in many countries worldwide due to the increasing standard of living or because of industrial and business development [1,2,3]. One of the most widespread methods used for the final disposal of ...
6.4. Other Organic Chemicals In addition to hydrocarbons, a large class of other organic chemicals is often present in hazardous waste disposal sites and represents a significant risk to human and ecological health. As a major component and waste by-product of industrial, agricultural and military ...
systems such as the Landsat MultiSpectral Scanner (MSS) and Thematic Mapper (TM) and a variety of aircraft-based systems have been utilized to monitor hazardous waste sites with respect to land use, regional risk and the spectral characteristics of specific disposal sites and their pollution ...