The paper describes environmental project ZmapujTo.cz which is intended to fight against illegal waste dumps in the Czech Republic with using geographic information systems (GISs). The smartphone/tablet GIS reporting application ZmapujTo has been developed. This free available mobile application enables to report illegal dumps and also overloaded containers of municipal waste. The project Zmapu...

Knowledge of the probable origin and behaviour of arsenic certainly gives valuable insights into the potential for transfer in the environment and of the risks involved in mining sites. Sequential extraction analyses are common experiments often used to study the origin and behaviour of potentially toxic elements. The method, however, presents some deficiencies, including labor-intensive proced...

The specific hydrogeoecological conditions of aquifers some technogenic formations, mainly iron ore skarn-magnetite and titanium-magnetite are considered. resulting wastes, which stored in waste disposal sites during development deposits, due to the impact a number factors (natural technogenic) form waters. Waste facilities complex engineering structures (dumps sludge storages), turn create the...

OBJECTIVES Adverse effects of waste management represent a public health issue. Mortality meta-analysis in Italian National Priority Contaminated Sites (NPCSs) with industrial waste landfills or illegal dumps is presented. METHODS 24 NPCSs include industrial waste landfills or illegal dumps. Class 1 (10 NPCSs with industrial waste landfills) and Class 2 (14 NPCSs with illegal dumps) were cate...

knowledge of the probable origin and behaviour of arsenic certainly gives valuable insights into the potential for transfer in the environment and of the risks involved in mining sites. sequential extraction analyses are common experiments often used to study the origin and behaviour of potentially toxic elements. the method, however, presents some deficiencies, including labor-intensive proced...

Between 2001 and 2009, the area of Naples, South Italy, repeatedly hit the headlines of national and international media due to the waste management crisis that on many occasions filled up the streets of the region with huge piles of waste. What soon emerged as the main bone of contention concerned the connections between the population's health and the presence of dumps on the territory. What ...

BACKGROUND The positive matrix factorization is a powerful environmental analysis technique which has been successfully utilized to assess air-born particulate matter source contribution. The new version of this model (PMF5) has two additional estimation error methods and some other useful advantages compared to the previous versions. In the present study, the capability of PMF5 for identificat...