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You don’t want to start a landfill fire by dumping flammable liquids like gasoline. However, there may be additional combustible elements present on a workplace. When in doubt about the flammability of a chemical dumpster, look for the flammable hazard symbol on it. Unknown liquids and chemica...
The illegal dumping monitoring technology uses an openpose algorithm to identify the joints of the dumper and type of trash bag according to the “you only look once” (YOLO) model by detecting the distance between the dumper and trash bag to determine whether there is illegal dumping. After a...
yes, it looks medieval because you’re dumping waste right next door. But if you really think about how this is being calculated in the long term, generating new land that becomes really expensive—it
摘要:In the city of Bahia Blanca, as well as in most Argentine cities, construction waste materials are placed in official dumping sites and an important percentage in illegal dumping sites where they are usually mixed with urban solids. Bahia Blanca is located 700 km south of Buenos Aires and...
The results of seasonal variation indicated that higher levels of these hazardous meta(loids) were detected in the pre-monsoon (Nov – May) season than the rest of the year, as open dumping/burning of e-waste were practiced commonly and frequently in the monitored sites. The results ...
contaminating groundwater, reaching distances of several kilometers (El-Fadel et al.1997). Open dumps are the most common waste disposal strategy seen in many urban areas in Iran, characterized by the irresponsible disposal of waste products. In addition to open-pit dumping, unsafe disposal and ...
Rather than jurisdiction being “nothing more than the map of law’s interaction with society” (Ford, 1999, p. 929) there is, in the work of jurisdiction, no society, law, and space as separate domains, but worldings; the formatting of moral cosmologies; political and economic forms ...
(mainly for the undeveloped countries) to collect and sort plastic waste from other solid waste and arrange special recycling or dumping process. Secondly, due to lack of space or dumping sites, small and underdeveloped countries prefer incineration or open burring to reduce the mass and volume ...
Many states, however, bar landfilling and the dumping of used electronics. Many also have e-waste recycling programs. But there is no federal law overseeing e-waste recycling. To fill this gap and to rein in the rampant export that BAN and other NGOs documented in the early 2000s, the ...