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Use of Plastic Wastes in the Construction of Roads
Bitumen is a useful binder for road construction and elastomers like natural rubber, crumb rubber, SBR, etc. as well as plastomeric substances like Polyethylene, Ethylene Vinyl Acetate and Ethylene Butyl Acrylates are mixed with bitumen to modify...
UASB Technology for Waste Water Treatment
Domestic/municipal wastewater and many industrial effluents contain significant amounts of biodegradable organic wastes. Organic pollutants are most economically treated by biological methods, wherein microbes convert them to inert biomass that...
Waste Management
What is waste management?
There is more to waste management than collecting rubbish and dumping it at landfill. Although this is a vital step in the process, there is more to it than that! This article will address the steps involved in the...
All About Landfills
Landfills are basically the specific areas or sites where waste materials and garbage is disposed off on a regular basis. These special sites are constructed for the decomposition of different types of waste, be it industrial or household waste....
Hospital Waste management Techniques – a Step By Step Guide for You
Hospital waste is very different from the ordinary waste that is produced in our homes on a daily basis that is why we need to adopt certain different methods for disposing off the hospital waste materials. Various complex substances are involved...
Plastic Recycling Techniques
Plastic is basically made of virgin materials and that is why it is very difficult to decompose. Even when it is disposed off in the landfills, plastic materials do not get decomposed and that is why plastic is considered to be a substance that...
Leather Tanning and Environment
The Tannery Industry:
As of estimates made in 2002, India had more than 3000 tanneries with a total capacity of 700000 tonnes of hides and skins per year. The annual income from leather trade in India was about Rs 20000 crores. More than 90%...
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