Starting Out Right From the time we start preparing a room for a new baby, we are making choices about the child's environment. Many people get ready for a new child by painting, papering, and carpeting a baby's room with conventional ...
Menu Warning: Things Can Change Beware of Greenwashing Everything Natural isn't Safe, and Vice Versa Learn to Read the Labels Routes of Exposure Pollution in People Nanoparticles - Something New to Watch Out For Essential ...
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The mining company Primero Mining Corp. ordered two new piston pumps from Putzmeister in 2012 for its San Dimas gold and silver mine in Tayoltita, Mexico. One of the two pumps has already been delivered to the job site, the second one is on ...
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As a result of the last-minute enactment of the Taxpayer Relief Act earlier this year, six common energy-efficient upgrades you may have made to your home in 2012 or plan to make this year are eligible for a federal tax credit. Replacement ...
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Radio Lifeline, a non-profit based in the US, has launched the Black Earth Project, a new initiative designed to help Kenyan farmers mitigate the growing impact of climate change. For this project, Radio Lifeline has partnered with ...
Ultrafiltration has become an increasingly important membrane separation technology in recent years. Anthony Bennett describes the fundamentals of ultrafiltration and highlights some current trends, as well as recent innovations in the ...
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Scientists at the University of Glasgow, Scotland, have developed a new method to make package Left to right: Dr Hugh Potts, Ian Muirhead and Dr Declan Diver d food safer for consumers and more long-lived on the shelf by ...
Underperforming open industrial waste water treatment lagoons are on the way out after more than a century, as industry counts the cost of their pollution, odours, leakage, energy wastage and relative inefficiency in fixing the problems ...
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Like all organic materials, textiles will decompose under the influence of water and microorganisms in the ground. Under comparable environmental conditions, it depends mainly on the raw materials used whether the decomposition process ...
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German company MICRODYN-NADIR has installed membrane bioreactor technology to ensure that wastewater from a hospital meets the highest possible effluent standards and eliminates micro pollutants. The chemical industry faces many ...
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Fonterra and New Zealand's government are trying to reassure officials in key export markets that the country's milk supply is safe, after traces of agricultural chemical dicyandiamide were found in some dairy products. Fonterra said late ...
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Wayne McNee, New Zealand Department of Primary Industry official said dicyandiamide fertilizer had been no longer used since last September. dairy products from New Zealand are unlikely to contain dicyandiamide residues and can be safe to ...
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Italian specialist paper manufacturer Favini will exhibit its various eco-friendly papers in the Paperworld 2013 from 26-29 January 2013 in Frankfurt, Germany. At the show, Favini will showcase CRUSH, claimed to be the first and only ...
Russia has threatened to ban imports of chilled meat from the US due to the presence of feed additive ractopamine, in the latest in a series of food safety complaints from the ex-Soviet power. Russia is considering a temporary ban on ...
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The hotel sector, health care system and food industry generate huge amounts of linen every day which is becoming increasingly expensive to treat and care for due rising energy costs. Therefore manufacturers of commercial washing machines ...
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