As the link between health and environmental quality is receiving due attention, the commitment to safeguard the environment from both the physical and social impacts associated with hospital waste is growing. Many aspects of human well-being are influenced by the environment and many diseases can be initiated, promoted, sustained or stimulated by environmental factors. Environmental health is ...

The proper treatment and characterization of past hazardous waste sites is becoming more and more important as world population extends into areas previously deemed undesirable. Historical photographs, past records, current aerial satellite imagery can play an important role in characterizing these sites. These data provide clear insight into defining problem areas which can be surface sampled ...

What makes recycling work? We study the factors driving household waste disposal and recycling in 18 cities in Taiwan and Japan in order to understand the impact of alternative waste management incentives. We show that this depends on the effect of distinct policies on the relative costs of the main alternative disposal methods: recycling, disposal to landfill and illegal dumping. The willingne...

Quantification of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), polychlorinated-dibenzo-p-dioxins (PCDDs) and polychlorinated dibenzofurans (PCDFs) in waste oil by high resolution gas chromatography-high resolution mass spectrometry (HRGC-HRMS), and profiling of their congeners and homologues were described. Waste oil packed in drums which were estimated to have been exposed to the weather for more than 20...

1. Study corroborates our analysis done in October-November, 2009 that the UCIL site is heavy contaminated with chlorinated benzene compounds, organochlorine pesticides, carbmate pesticides (Carbaryl and Aldicarb. It also confirms that this contamination has nothing to do with the gas accident, but is caused by UCC/UCIL dumping and disposing off waste indiscriminately on the site. All pesticide...

The small scale industries located at Mira Road, Mumbai, are engaged in various processes/operations which generate the wastes. The waste generated are collected and disposed of at the dumping ground near the industrial estate. In the present study, the physico-chemical and microbial status of the contaminated sites has been carried out. The heavy metal with special reference to copper was expo...

Libby Legacy Minnesota Community Exhibits Nonoccupational Health Impacts Consistent with Asbestos Damage Adverse health effects of asbestos have been documented worldwide for the better part of the last half-century, with a large number of studies focused on occupa tional exposures received during the mining and processing of vermiculite ore. A new study reports on nonoccupational health effect...

Libby Legacy Minnesota Community Exhibits Nonoccupational Health Impacts Consistent with Asbestos Damage Adverse health effects of asbestos have been documented worldwide for the better part of the last half-century, with a large number of studies focused on occupa tional exposures received during the mining and processing of vermiculite ore. A new study reports on nonoccupational health effect...