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Activated Sludge Technology Book

A Brief History of the Activated Sludge Process Although recorded history and surviving archaeological sites show that the Babylonians and Assyrians, and later the Romans all used quite sophisticated technology to collect and dispose of their wastes, this environmental awareness was not adopted by later societies, until the Industrial Revolution in Britain in the 19th century forced political ...

By WeDoTanks.com LLC

The Green Design Brief

- Do you need performance based evidence to back up your sustainable building project to your clients and investors? - Are you looking for applicable guidance, vetted by a sustainable design expert, to support your project’s design choices? - Do you require a ready-to-use specification checklist to follow and hand out to your design teams? - Or do you want a set of locally available green ...

By Green Building Consulting & Engineering

Children, Citizenship and Environment

When it was first published in 2012, Children, Citizenship and Environment correctly predicted a strong surge in youth activism as children are confronted by four difficult and intersecting challenges: dangerous environmental change, weakening democracies, growing social inequality, and a global economy marked by unprecedented youth unemployment and unsustainable resource ...

By Taylor & Francis Group

Ecosocialism and Climate Justice

This book investigates the broader climate movement to contextualise the role played by its climate justice wing, focussing specifically on the theoretical and practical contributions of ...

By Taylor & Francis Group

Solid Waste Management Policies in Kenya: The Silence on the Plight of Women and Children

Building on available evidence that there are differences of exposure to solid waste among men, women and children, it follows that effective solid waste management (SWM) policies need to recognise such variations, as a prelude to rolling out programmes to address associated socio-economic and health risks. However, this logical scenario does not seem to be the case in many middle- and low-income ...

By The Journal of Solid Waste Technology and Management

Recycled PVC as Material for Natural Fiber Composite Manufacturing—Study of Mechanical Performance and Durability

Manufacturing wood plastic composites from polyvinyl chloride (PVC) construction waste is one of the options for its continuously increasing scrap utilization. The aim of this study is to estimate the mechanical properties and durability of composites manufactured from recycled and commercially available PVC ...

By The Journal of Solid Waste Technology and Management

An Economic, Technical And Environmental Feasibility Study for Slurry Injection for Biosolids Management In the Dallas Fort Worth Metroplex

In Dallas Fort Worth (DFW), sewage is treated with a combination of anaerobic digestion, effluent filtration and lime stabilization to create biosolids which are then composted, landfilled, or land applied. The current treatment procedure has certain concerns including emissions or accumulation of odors, pathogens, nutrients, metals, and pharmaceutical ...

By The Journal of Solid Waste Technology and Management

European Journal of Sustainable Development

The opportunity to use the tangible resources of our planet – water, air, subterranean depths – secure the existence of our civilization. Despite the existence of private property and the division of ownership of tangible resources between natural and legal persons, the resources required for life are objectively determined by the very life form. Any living creature needs air, water ...

By European Journal of Sustainable Development (EJSD)

Contributions - 8th International Conference on Proton Transfer Reaction Mass Spectrometry and Its Applications

Book of Contributions to the 8th International PTR-MS Conference 2019 incl. all Abstracts. PTR-MS (Proton Transfer Reaction-Mass Spectrometry) is a relatively new technology developed at the Institute of Ion Physics at the University of Innsbruck in the 1990’s. PTR-MS has been found to be an extremely powerful and promising technology for the detection of volatile organic compounds (VOC) at ultra ...

By Ionicon Analytik Ges.m.b.H.

Sustainable Chemistry and Pharmacy

Sustainable chemistry technology, EcoBioClean®, degrades crude oil, catalyzing conversion into energy source used by microorganisms and other ...

By Jacor, LLC

AIOH Position Paper Inorganic Lead

This paper was compiled to give guidance on the assessment, evaluation and control of occupational exposure to inorganic lead and its commonly encountered compounds, with an emphasis on recommending a health-based occupational exposure guidance value. The current Safe Work Australia (SWA) workplace exposure standards (WES) and current international occupational exposure limits (OELs) are ...

By Australian Institute of Occupational (AIOH)

AIOH Position Paper Respirable Coal Dust

This paper was compiled to give guidance on the assessment, evaluation and control of occupational exposure to respirable coal dust (RCD), with an emphasis on recommending a health-based guidance occupational exposure ...

By Australian Institute of Occupational (AIOH)

Air Pollution XXVI

Dealing with issues related to the modelling, monitoring and management of air pollution, this book includes papers presented at the 26th International Conference on Modelling, Monitoring and Management of Air Pollution. The papers from this conference continue a wide ranging collection of high quality research works that develop the fundamental science of air ...

By WIT Press

Standards Official Notice - June 2018

The following AWWA Standards will be effective June 2018: ANSI/AWWA B604-18 Granular Activated Carbon ANSI/AWWA B605-18 Reactivation of Granular Activated Carbon ANSI/AWWA G485-18 Direct Potable Reuse Program ...

By American Water Works Association (AWWA)

Pamphlet 9 Chlorine Vaporizing Systems

Contains information intended to assist in the selection, design and safe operation of vaporizers. ...

By The Chlorine Institute Inc. (CI)

AIOH Position Paper Diesel Particulate Matter and Occupational Health

This paper was compiled to give guidance on the assessment, evaluation and control of occupational exposure to diesel particulate matter (DPM), with an emphasis on recommending a health-based guidance occupational exposure value. It is an update of the previous Position Paper on DPM issued by the AIOH in ...

By Australian Institute of Occupational (AIOH)

Food and Resilience

43.2 FOOD AND RESILIENCE explores the impacts of climate change on our food systems, with a particular eye on the innovations that will allow us to create a more resilient nutritional ...

By Alternatives Journal

Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater, 23rd Edition

Analysts, researchers, and regulators have relied on this peer-reviewed publication since 1905. The trusted source of accurate, proven methodology for analyzing natural waters, water supplies, and wastewaters. The 23rd edition of Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater® contains over 400 laboratory methods for the analysis of: Dissolved Solids Metals Free and Total ...

By American Water Works Association (AWWA)

Ecological Economics

43.1 ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS: Partnering with the Canadian Society for Ecological Economics (CANSEE) and led by guest editors Katie Kish, Brett Dolter and Andreas Link, this issue seeks to help us understand how to balance environmental protection with ...

By Alternatives Journal

Marine Ecosystem-Based Management in Practice

Julia Wondolleck and Steven Yaffee are hopeful. Rather than lamenting the persistent conflicts in global marine ecosystems, they instead sought out examples where managers were doing things differently and making progress against great odds. They interviewed planners, managers, community members, fishermen, and environmentalists throughout the world to find the best lessons for others hoping to ...

By Island Press