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    Superfund Site Essay

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    1) The remedy chosen must attain a degree of cleanup that assures the protection of human health and environment. 2) The hazardous substances that will remain after the cleanup, they must meet the applicable and/or relevant and appropriate requirements under federal and state law (ARARs). 3) The remedy chosen must utilize permanent solutions and alternative treatment technologies

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    Espanola Superfund Site: Railroad Avenue Espanola’s superfund site on North Railroad Avenue use to be the Norge Town Laundromat and Dry Cleaning. Evidence of water plume contamination was found within a fifty-eight acre area extending south from the site. The contaminates found in the ground water/aquifer of the site were tetrachloroethylene (PCE), trichloroethylene, cis-1, 2-dichloroethylene, trans-1, 2-dichloroethylene, and vinyl chloride (VC). On September 27, 2001, a Record of Decision by the

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    b) Health, safety and environmental issues related to the designated product. Marking criteria 1. All topic areas covered with appropriate balance 2. Article is commercially relevant and well summarised 3. Three or more professional resources (for entire Task 1) 4. Covered all topic areas stated with good breadth and depth, use professional and valid data sources. (for economic data) Health (source book) page 759 Cyclohexane is an acute irritant with low order toxicity due to its efficient metabolism

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    of Hazardous and Non-Hazardous Wastes. Our main discussions on this topic were Resource Conservation & Recovery Act (RCRA), Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation & Recovery & Liability Act (CERCLA) and Brownfields. We also discussed on blog posts, and their implication in our communities. Conservation & Recovery Act (RCRA) is administered under the federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). It is designed to provide safe handling and containment of hazardous and non-hazardous wastes

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    amount of hazardous waste, and proper disposal and treatment of this waste requires biomedical waste solutions Texas. Biomedical waste solutions begin with biomedical waste handling and storage. In any facility that produces this type of waste, that means having the proper equipment and training to allow every staff member to handle hazardous materials safely and to know how it must be bagged or boxed until it is picked up for professional disposal and treatment. Biohazardous Waste Disposal Texas:

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    Factory farming is a modern agricultural method that produces mass amounts of animals to meet the food consumption. In the 2009 documentary film, A River of Waste: The Hazardous Truth About Factory Farms directed by Don McCorkell, people can see actual accounts how modern agricultural methods of meat and poultry manufacturing has on the environment and human health. Observing the film, people can view why this matter is immediately necessary. To reduce operation cost and produce surplus amount of

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    A Cleaner Community

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    A Cleaner Community Emelle, Alabama holds one of the largest commercial hazardous-waste landfills in America, yet African-Americans compose 90% of the town’s population. In Philadelphia, Mississippi, a Choctaw Native American reservation holds a 466-acre hazardous landfill (Wright 532). These statistics reveal the sensitive boundary between racial and social classes. Specific human factors have driven the need for change in environmental practices, such as growing human population, increased natural

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    dramatic changes to the environment of the United States. Superfund aimed to cleanup hazardous waste sites in America and protect the health and safety of the general public. Over the years, the Superfund legislation has authorized the government to aid in the cleanup of toxic waste in a variety of effective ways that have ensured the welfare of its citizens. On the whole, CERCLA has transformed hazardous waste sites, changed the outdated disposal methods that companies utilized, and ignited environmental

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    come to mind. These three are distracted driving, hazardous waste, and extreme weather. The less severe of these three would be extreme weather. Even though one would think that this issue would be very severe, but with this issue only happening a small percentage of the time, I consider it the lesser of the three issues. The second issue, which is more severe than the weather, would be hazardous waste. With things like household and industrial waste. The last and most severe is distracted driving

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    Electronic Waste Management and Treatment

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    Introduction: One of the fastest growing solid waste in USA and the world is used electronic equipment. With everyday growth in electronic technology and its wide use in the industry, our everyday life gets easier. This day to day use of technological equipment like cell phones, GPS, CRT or even batteries has made our lives very dependent on the need for fast growth of technology and new designs. These new designs and the fast growth is the cause of early obsolescence for electronic devices. Usually

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