505. Quantitative Analysis of Microbial Burden on Hospital Room Environmental Surfaces Contributing to Healthcare-Associated Infections William A. Rutala, PhD, MPH; Hajime Kanamori, MD, PhD, MPH; Maria Gergen, MT (ASCP); Emily Sickbert-Bennett, PhD, MS; Lauren P. Knelson, MSPH; Luke F. Chen, MBBS, MPH, MBA, CIC, FRACP; Deverick Anderson, MD, MPH, FSHEA, FIDSA; Daniel Sexton and David J. Weber, ...

The Southern Cross Group of forest researchers and practitioners calls for stewardship support for private native forests to reward and encourage private forest owners to provide environmental services enjoyed by the community. We propose an annual payment, to foster recognition that environmental services are ‘core business’. We propose incentives that are outcome oriented, transparent and eas...

Throughout the chemical and process industries, ever more emphasis is being placed upon extracting increasingly greater value from plant equipment, with substantial interest in energy efficiency and responsible environmental stewardship. Improved process control is almost unique in its ability to deliver substantial operational efficiency and environmental improvements with relatively little ad...

Sarah M. Bisbing,* David J. Cooper, David V. D’Amore and Kristin N. Marshall 1 Department of Natural Resources Management and Environmental Sciences, California Polytechnic State University, 1 Grand Ave San Luis Obispo, 93407, CA, USA 2 Forest and Rangeland Stewardship, Colorado State University, 1472 Campus Mail, Fort Collins, CO, 80523, USA 3 USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research St...

All food production systems have an impact upon the environment, regardless of how and where the food is produced. The effects that agricultural practices have upon environmental parameters are increasingly well-known, not only to the global and national industries, but also to policy-makers and consumers. Increased public awareness of these issues underlines the critical need to adopt dairy pr...

The Covid-19 pandemic has contributed to a significant increase in the amount of waste generated by healthcare industry. Due lack ecologically conscious options and policies, much industries’ ends up landfills or incinerated, contributing landmass pollution methane gas production release toxic chemicals into air. Environmental pollutants have been worsening climate conditions for decades, plane...