To the Editor—Medical and healthcare institutions can be the source of life-saving medical interventions, but they also play a significant role as a vital energy hogs. At the same time, healthcare and medical institutions conduct different kinds of therapeutic activities that result in the production of infectious waste, sharp objects, radioactive waste, and chemical materials. Research conduct...

Background & Aims of the Study: Increasing hazardous industrial wastes and lack of necessary regulations for management of them have led to serious problems in some parts of Iran. The aim of this study was to evaluate the situation of collection, transportation, recycling, and disposal of hazardous industrial wastes in the Khazra Industrial Park of Kerman, Iran. Materials & Meth...

it is an important work for testing workers to recycle waste wire used in Oilfield testing. This paper introduces a new type of spinner developed by TRIZ Method. The machine ingenious conception, shortens the working time and achieves certain economic benefits.

The Pollution Prevention Program provides free technical assistance to North Carolina industries and municipalities on ways to reduce, recycle and prevent wastes before they become pollutants. This non-regulatory program, located in the Division of Environmental Management, addresses water and air quality, toxic materials, and solid and hazardous waste. Designated as the lead agency in waste re...

We examine the strategic interplay between a buyer’s design decision and the ensuing competition between suppliers in a three-tier closed-loop supply chain setting with significant recycling considerations. The nature of the engineering design decision in our research entails choice of integral versus modular design that has direct implications for the input raw material waste and ensuing compe...

A B S T R A C T Membrane Assisted Liquid Extraction of Actinides and Remediation of Nuclear Waste: A Review N.S. Rathore1, Ana Maria Sastre2, Anil Kumar Pabby1,* * Corresponding author at: Phone: + 91 2525265197, Fax: +91 2525244158 Article history: Received 2014-08-01 Revised 2014-12-05 Accepted 2014-12-10 Available online 2014-12-10 Membrane assisted liquid extraction (MALE) technologies are ...

Humanity knows three ways to deal with waste: incineration, burial (landfills) and recycling. All the methods, except reuse recycle, destroy nature are dangerous for ecology human health exactly. Each year Russians produce about 50 million tons solid waste, most part of which goes landfills. National green projects aimed create visible eco-friendly system by awarding greenwashing grants: landfi...