Porcelain and plastic materials constitute bulk of household wastes. Owing to resistibility and slow degradability that accounts for higher residence time, these materials qualify as potential hazardous wastes. Retention of water permits these wastes to form a congenial biotope for the breeding of different vector mosquitoes. Thus porcelain and plastic wastes pose a risk from public health view...

The Pacifi c Basin includes countries in Asia, Australia, and North and South America. The Pacifi c Basin Consortium for Environment and Health (PBC), fi rst established in 1986, is an international organization that brings together scientists, policy makers, and representatives from non-governmental organizations with interest in health-related issues specifi c to this wide region. Initially, ...

M &i We a InnovatIo Alternatives to Incineration: There's More Than One Way to Remediate Hazardous waste is everywhere. It comes from paints, motor oil, hair spray, household cleaners, automotive chemicals, and all kinds of toxic medical, industrial and military products. Most industrial processes-from which come cosmetics and pharmaceuticals, computers and garden pesticides-generate wastes tha...

To evaluate the impact of hazardous chemicals in solid wastes on man and other organisms, it is necessary to have information about amounts of chemical present, extent of exposure, and chemical toxicity. This paper addresses the question of organism exposure by considering the major physical and biological transport pathways and the physicochemical and biochemical transformations that may occur...

background and purpose: due to the lack of accurate statistics on the amount of waste generated in the energy production sector in zahedan, before any planning, one should identify all waste producing centers associated with the energy sector and also the quantity and quality of their waste in zahedan. materials and methods: this research is a cross-sectional descriptive study. it examined the ...

most of electricity is generated by thermal power plants in iran. shahid rajaee thermal power plant consists of four 250mw natural gas and fuel oil burning units that is located at 100 km west off tehran. as a result of fuel oil burning in winter time, boilers air heaters are washed and cleaned frequently. the wastewater originating from air heater washing contains suspended solids and differen...