Purdue University is committed to preserving a balance between protecting the health of people and the environment, while accommodating increasingly sophisticated and productive research operations.

Disposing waste either in incinerators (burning of waste at high temperature to convert them into heat, flue gas and ash) or burning them in landfills will slow down the path to waste minimization and ...

The project is aimed at promoting waste minimization, effective storage (including long term storage), and the development of new technologies for the characterisation (including safeguard related ...

Hazardous waste as defined by the EPA is waste that is dangerous or potentially harmful to our health or the environment. Hazardous wastes can be liquids, solids, gases, or sludges. All hazardous ...

TORONTO, Jan. 18, 2012 /CNW/ - For some, the concept of sorting and weighing lunch waste might seem like a sticky, smelly nuisance. Not so for the 200,000 Ontario elementary students that participated ...

Solid waste is related to every household. Poor management of solid waste causes environmental pollution. Plastics in the solid waste that go in to the ocean cause marine pollution. The Ningbo ...

Graphite has been used as a moderator and reflector of neutrons in more than 100 nuclear power plants and in many research and plutonium-production reactors, in quantities ranging from a few kilograms ...

Section 3002(b) of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) requires generators of hazardous waste to certify that they have a waste minimization program in place, for the purpose of reducing ...