10(a). Location of a landfill near residential areas may raise public concerns like air pollution, visual pollution, noise pollution, chances of fire and diseases in the area. It is for these reasons that landfill should be located at an appropriate distance away from residential areas. In ...
“If you want to talk to me, you’ll have to help.” She bobs her head at the ground. The not-pond-attendant begins picking up sticks and putting them into Petunia’s waiting arms. They come face to face as he does so, and she looks down to avoid his gaze and sees that his fi...
“I think we’re in a race to save what’s left,” the Republican said. “That’s what I believe, and I believe people in Brookhaven value open space,” adding, “We have the Joseph Macchia [Environmental Preservation] Capital Reserve Fund, open space funds that we use. I would certai...
But increasing expansion due to ever- increasing population and urbanization have resulted in development of land adjacent to dumps as either public buildings or residential houses. Therefore, humans are exposed to a range of environmental hazards but particularly percolation of polluted leachate into ...
250 mL of pre-treated samples, at different photo- Fenton times, without hydrogen peroxide and at neutral pH were added to an open borosilicate glass beaker, magnetically stirred and kept in the dark at 25 C. Activated sludge from a municipal wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) located in ...
Yet the implementation of the Ley de Envases also represented a much greater public and private investment in waste pickers than cooperativisation, which enjoyed ideological but little material or financial support from the state. If precarity is to have purchase as a concept, a structural ...
In addition, to enhance public participation for land suitability evaluation, several studies applied the integration of GIS and AHP in the World Wide Web environment, which was also known as Web-based multi-criteria spatial decision support system [59,60] or Web GIS-based multicriteria decision ...
introduced a Community Database on Road Accidents (so-called CARE) resulting in death or injury (i.e., crashes “between road users involving at least one vehicle in motion on a public highway normally open to traffic and causing the death of and/or injury to one or more of the road ...
The RESRAD-OFFSITE results showed that the dose incurred during the study period for both ranges of AC was all below the public dose limit of 1 mSv/y. NORM and LegacY Site Assessment (NORMALYSA) code was used to validate the result of the RESRAD-ONSITE code, and the results showed that...
The emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic followed by social distancing measures to con- trol the spread of the disease has led to an increase in plastic waste [3]. Following different public health protection directives and measures, a substantial surge in the waste volume has been documented ...