Atrazine has been identified in at least 20 of the 1,636 hazardous waste sites that have been proposed for inclusion on the EPA National Priorities List (NPL) (HazDat 2003). However, the number of sites evaluated for atrazine is not known. The frequency for these sites within the United States can be seen in Figure 6-1. Of these sites, all 20 are located within the United States and none are lo...

STUDY OBJECTIVE To determine whether there was a higher incidence of respiratory ill health in children living near to a cement works than in those from a different area, and if so whether the higher incidence was due to the use of a hazardous waste-derived fuel at the works. STUDY DESIGN A sample of the population of children living near the cement works (the study area) was compared with a ...

E-waste is one of the fastest growing waste streams in India due to increasing “market penetration” in developing countries, “replacement market” in developed countries and “high obsolescence rate”. The composition of e-waste is very diverse and differs in products across different categories. It contains more than a 1000 different substances, which fall under “hazardous” and “nonhazardous” cat...

Approximately 40 million people live within a 4-mile radius of waste sites that the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) has assessed to date. Human populations living in the vicinity of such sites are often subjected to complex chemical exposures that may contribute to the total body burden of oxogenous chemicals. Apart from the contaminants found at waste sites, exposure m...

Disposal of metal finishing wastes is one of the most critical industrial waste problems in the United States today. Recent legislation greatly restricts the discharge of most heavy metals to watercourses and future discharge regulations may further restrict their release to the environment. Furthermore, interest in developing possible methods for reclaiming metals from plating waste streams is...

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BACKGROUND The Superfund Research Program (SRP) is an academically based, multidisciplinary, translational research program that for 25 years has sought scientific solutions to health and environmental problems associated with hazardous waste sites. SRP is coordinated by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS). It supports multi-project grants, undergraduate and postdoct...

the paper demonstrates the result of changes in the physicochemical and biological properties in soil as a result of the operation of illegal dumping sites. soil was sampled from the research points located on the outskirts of the city of bydgoszcz (poland) from the site not affected by illegal dumping sites (control c), within the dumping sites, having removed the waste layer (w), and 10 m awa...