Plastic is readily available and inexpensive, so it is becoming the main material for packaging. Unfortunately plastics do not biodegrade and, if reduced in small pieces, contaminate soil and waterways. In the present work, natural films composed of chitosan, methylcellulose, and silica (SiO(2)) nanoparticles (NPs) were developed as new packaging materials. The effect of the incorporation of NP...

Plastic production has increased dramatically worldwide over the last 60 years and it is nowadays recognized as a serious threat to the marine environment. Plastic pollution is ubiquitous, but quantitative estimates on the global abundance and weight of floating plastics are still limited, particularly for the Southern Hemisphere and the more remote regions. Some large-scale convergence zones o...

Plastic is a difficult chemical to degrade or decompose naturally, taking hundreds even thousands of years for nature break down plastic. However, the reality that plastic widely used in various human needs, from food packaging materials automotive materials. One way overcome waste through eco-brick utilizing with bottle media. Ecobrick one creative effort manage into useful objects and reduce ...

plastics are well-established for convenient and safe packaging and distribution of food and feed goods. at present, this special sector of the plastic market displays remarkably increasing quantities of its annual production. caused by the ongoing limitation and strongly fluctuating prices of fossil feedstocks, classically used for plastic production, there is an evident trend to switch toward...

This paper compiles the available information on historic tailings dam failures with the purpose to establish simple correlations between tailings ponds geometric parameters (e.g., dam height, tailings volume) and the hydraulic characteristics of floods resulting from released tailings. Following the collapse of a mining waste dam, only a part of tailings and polluted water stored at the dam is...

The increasing energy demand for space cooling and environmental pollution caused by post-consumer plastic waste are two of the most challenging issues today. Passive daytime cooling, which dissipates heat to outer without external input, has emerged recently as a sustainable technique cooling. In this work, waste-based passive foil is reported alleviate both simultaneously. mirror-like aluminu...

conclusions the mssrhs could be considered as a more suitable packing material for long-term biofilter operation to remove h2s pollution. results in this study, after 53 days of operating time and 54 g/m3h mass loading, the ph values in the ss and mssrhs packed filters were reduced from 6.8 to 1.8 and from 6.9 to 3.4, respectively. the mssrhs packed filter showed more buffering capacity to resi...

Air-stripping method was used to remove ammonia from the wastewater collected from natural gas fertilizer factory. Different materials were used as packing materials for the air stripping system. The effect of pH over 10.5, air-water flow ratio, nature of packing materials, height of materials and initial influent concentration of ammonia on air stripping unit were investigated. An attempt has ...