Hazardous Waste Articles

• Soil Types
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  Recycling and Waste
  Agriculture and Food
  Food
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  Vermicompost

  Vermicompost (or Worm Compost) the process of using earthworms to breakdown kitchen and garden waste, to create a faster than normal composting. Compared to ordinary soil, the earthworm castings (the ... > more
• Hazardous Waste
  Petroleum
  Pollution
  Water
  Oil Spills
  Energy and the Environment
   
  

  Methyl tert-butyl ether

  MTBE (methyl tertiary-butyl ether) is a chemical compound that is manufactured by the chemical reaction of methanol and isobutylene. MTBE is produced in very large quantities (more than 200,000 ... > more
• Hazardous Waste
  Environmental Science
  Healthy Aging
  Attention Deficit Disorder
  Sports Medicine
  Pregnancy and Childbirth
   
  

  Mercury poisoning

  Mercury poisoning, also known as mercuralism, is the phenomenon of toxication by contact with mercury. The main dangers associated with elemental mercury are that at standard conditions for ... > more
• Pollution
  Water
  Ecology
  Acid Rain
  Air Pollution
  Sustainability
   
  

  Eutrophication

  Eutrophication is the enrichment of an ecosystem with chemical nutrients, typically compounds containing nitrogen, phosphorus, or both. Eutrophication can be a natural process in lakes, occurring as ... > more
• Environmental Issues
  Environmental Policy
  Healthy Aging
  Sustainability
  Attention Deficit Disorder
  Environmental Science
   

  Environmental impact assessment

  An Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) is an assessment of the likely human environmental health impact, risk to ecological health, and changes to nature's services that a project may have. The ... > more
• Sports Medicine
  Healthy Aging
  Attention Deficit Disorder
  Invasive Species
  Birds
  Pregnancy and Childbirth
   
  

  Carbofuran

  Carbofuran is one of the most toxic carbamate pesticides. It is marketed under the trade names Furadan, by FMC Corporation and Curater, among several others. It is used to control insects in a wide ... > more
• Wildfires
  Oil Spills
  Rainforests
  Trees
  Ecology Research
  Ecology
   
  

  Controlled burn

  Prescribed or controlled burning is a technique sometimes used in forest management, farming, or prairie restoration. Fire is a natural part of both forest and grassland ecology and controlled fire ... > more
• Hazardous Waste
  Sports Science
  Chemistry
  Organic Chemistry
  Construction
  Physics
   
  

  Arsenic

  Arsenic is a chemical element in the periodic table that has the symbol As and atomic number 33. This is a notoriously poisonous metalloid that has three allotropic forms; yellow, black and grey. ... > more
• Wildfires
  Natural Disasters
  Forest
  Environmental Science
  Oil Spills
  Ecology
   
  

  Smoulder

  Smouldering (or smoldering in American spelling) combustion is a flameless form of combustion, deriving its heat from oxidations occurring on the surface of a solid fuel. Common examples are the ... > more
• Energy and the Environment
  Petroleum
  Renewable Energy
  Environmental Science
  Oil Spills
  Fossil Fuels
   
  

  Biodiesel

  Biodiesel refers to a diesel-equivalent, processed fuel derived from biological sources. Though derived from biological sources, it is a processed fuel that can be readily used in diesel-engined ... > more

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