Update : New Jersey Zinc/Mobil Chemical Superfund Site, DePue, Illinois.

"September 2003."

Western Lion and Service Disposal #1 Landfill Sites : Loxa Road and Route 316, Charleston, Illinois.

"32322"--Colophon.

Superfund contracts : EPA's procedures for preventing conflicts of interest need strengthening: report to the Honorable John D. Dingell, Chairman, Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, Committee on Energy, House of Representatives /

"B-231219."--P. [1].

Environmental geology.

Co-published: Illnois State Geological Survey, Hazardous Waste Research and Information Center.

Superfund : contractors are being too liberally indemnified by the government : report to the Congress /

"B-231219"--P. [1].

Air pathway analysis.

Mode of access: Internet.

Disposal of dilute pesticide solutions /

Mode of access: Internet.

Superfund implementation : hearings before the Subcommittee on Superfund and Environmental Oversight of the Committee on Environment and Public Works, United States Senate, One hundredth Congress, first session, April 14, 1987, Newark, N.J.; April 29, June 25, and July 23, 1987, Washington, D.C.

Item 1045-A, 1045-B (microfiche)

Superfund : EPA has identified limited alterntives to incineration for cleaning up PCB and Dioxin contamination : report to Congressional requesters /

"B-266331"--P. 1.

Superfund oversight : hearings before the Subcommittee on Superfund, Ocean, and Water Protection of the Committee on Environment and Public Works, United States Senate, One Hundred Second Congress, second session.

"November 17, 1992-Bennington, VT"--Pt. 2.

Guía general para la gestión de residuos sólidos domiciliarios

Este documento tiene como objetivo presentar diferentes aspectos sobre la gestión de residuos sólidos domiciliarios en una forma comprensible para quienes estén desarrollando labores relacionadas con estos elementos, especialmente en el ámbito público, El trabajo se divide en tres partes. La primera trata sobre elementos generales de gestión integral de residuos sólidos domiciliarios; en ella se explican conceptos y se abarcan temáticas relacionadas con el plan de manejo. En la segunda parte se abordan temas relacionados con la ingeniería básica (alternativas tecnológicas, métodos de cálculo y de disposición). Finalmente se presentan dos capítulos de formulación y evaluación de proyectos, los que abarcan desde el ciclo de vida de los proyectos hasta la evaluación social.

Characterizing the physical and chemical properties of a vermicompost filter bed

Vermicompost filtration is a new on-site waste treatment system. Consequently, little is known about the filter medium properties. The aim of this preliminary study was to quantify physical and compositional properties of vermicompost filter beds that had been used to treat domestic solid organic waste and wastewater. This paper presents the trials performed on pilot-scale reactors filled with vermicompost from a full-scale vermicompost filtration system. Household solid organic waste and raw wastewater at the rate of 130 L/m(2)/d was applied to the reactor bed surface over a four-month period. It was found that fresh casts laid on the bed surface had a BOD of 1290 mg/g VS while casts buried to a depth of 10 cm had a BOD of 605 mg/g VS. Below this depth there was little further biodegradation of earthworm casts despite cast ages of up to five years. Solid material in the reactor accounted for only 7-10% of the reactor volume. The total voidage comprised of large free-draining pores, which accounted for 15-20% of the reactor volume and 60-70% micropores, able to hold up water against gravity. It was shown that water could flow through the medium micropores and macropores following a wastewater application. The wastewater flow characteristics were modeled by a two-region model based on the Richards Equation, an equation used to describe porous spatially heterogeneous materials.

From HAZAN to WASAN

The article discusses the waste and source-matter analysis (WASAN) group workshop methodology designed to minimize the generation of avoidable hazardous waste. Several areas analyzed using WASAN are the behavior of a process, waste minimization inside that process, and the consequences for waste production from upstream and downstream processes falling outside of design. A group from the Enriched Uranium Residues Recovery Plant (EURRP) in Springfields, England used WASAN to analyze the generation of plastic bag waste.

A study of gas holdup properties of selected non-Newtonian simulants

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) needs a design basis to properly design a PJM and ventilation systems for the Waste Treatment Plant vessels. In order to meet DOE's needs for proper ventilation and PJM design technologies, Florida International University's Hemispheric Center for Environmental Technology (FIU-HCET) has studied the properties for gas holdup in selected non Newtonian fluids with physicochemical properties comparable to nuclear waste. The primary purpose of this research was to study the holdup properties of selected non - Newtonian simulants and quantify the level of gas holdup in selected simulants using continuous argon injection in five gallons vessel. Gas holdup tests involved the injection of gas bubbles in simulant waste in scaled prototypic vessels. The holdup was measured as a function of injection rate in the vessel. Tests were performed with both Laponite, Clay 12%, Clay 27% and Qard 13.5. This work showed that the percentage of holdup was about 3% for all simulants despite the significant differences in rheology.

Caracterização e separação física de placas de circuito impresso de computadores obsoletos

The unbridled consumption of electronic equipment associated with fast immersion of new technologies on the market leads to the accelerated growth of electronic waste. Such waste mostly contains printed circuit boards in its structure. Printed circuit boards have many metals, including heavy metals, being highly toxic. Electronic waste is discarded improperly and indiscriminately, usually without any previous treatment and with other municipal waste, contaminating the environment and causing serious problems to human health. Beyond these metals, there are also precious metals and high value-added basis, that can be recovered and recycled, reducing the exploration of natural resources. Thus, due to the high growth potential and reuse of these waste treatment processes, characterization and separation were applied to the printed circuit boards. The printed circuit boards were subjected to physical treatments such as dismantling, crushing, sizing separation, magnetic separation and chemical treatments such as pyrolysis and leaching. Through characterization process (pyrolysis and leaching) the proportions of the components of the granulometric range were determined: 46,08% of metals; 23,32% of polymers and 30,60% of ceramics. It was also observed by particle size separation that metal components tend to concentrate in coarse fractions, while polymeric and ceramic components in fine fractions. From the magnetic separation process was obtained 12,08% of magnetic material and 82,33% of non-magnetic material.