Public Health Occupational Safety And Environmental Concerns In Municipal Solid Waste Recycling Operations

This teaching text discusses the details of full loop recycling. Covers the special topics that buyers & purchasing agents must face before they will become committed to buying recycled in an effort to help everyone understand the problems of perception that must be overcome. Also provides information on where to purchase recycled products & gives tips about getting to know the products. Discusses how to create the demand for recycled products. Illustrated.

This report will increase environmental protection by significantly reducing the potential for pollution of the State of Texas' land, water, & air in the exploration & production of oil & gas. Provides oil & gas operators with training & technical assistance on source reduction & recycling, also known as waste minimization. Includes: waste managment plans, & a list of hazardous & nonhazourdous oil & gas wastes. Provides success stories in drilling operations, oil field production operations, gas field production & gas plant operations. Glossary.

Incineration has been used widely for waste disposal, including household, hazardous, and medical wasteâ€"but there is increasing public concern over the benefits of combusting the waste versus the health risk from pollutants emitted during combustion. Waste Incineration and Public Health informs the emerging debate with the most up-to-date information available on incineration, pollution, and human healthâ€"along with expert conclusions and recommendations for further research and improvement of such areas as risk communication. The committee provides details on: Processes involved in incineration and how contaminants are released. Environmental dynamics of contaminants and routes of human exposure. Tools and approaches for assessing possible human health effects. Scientific concerns pertinent to future regulatory actions. The book also examines some of the social, psychological, and economic factors that affect the communities where incineration takes place and addresses the problem of uncertainty and variation in predicting the health effects of incineration processes.