Quantitative sustainability assessment of remanufacturing waste reinforcing steel
AbstractConstruction is a major contributor to the solid waste stream globally and various recycling strategies are being evaluated to recover valuable resources. As a novel strategy, remanufacturing waste reinforcing steel bar (rebar) pieces from concrete waste to produce nails was applied on an industrial scale to prove the technical feasibility, where a group of alternatives were developed based on commercially available industrial machinery. The calculated economic and environmental feasibility values are sufficiently high for industrial application, and the most appropriate remanufacturing technological alternative wa...
Source: Environmental Quality Management - March 6, 2023 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Ziyad Tariq Abdullah Tags: RESEARCH ARTICLE Source Type: research
Effects of intercropping of immature oil palm (Elaeis guineensis) with banana, ginger, and turmeric in the Galle District, Sri Lanka
AbstractOil palm (Elaeis guineensis) is considered as the world's leading edible oil producing plant and in tropical countries well established as a perennial plantation crop. Oil palm has spread over 10,000 hectares in the wet zone of the Island. Immature phase of oil palm plantation up to 5 years, there is sufficient space available inside the cultivation. Land productivity in immature plantations could be sustainably increased with some selected intercrops. A field experiment is being conducted at Thalgaswella Estate (6 ° 24′ 60″ °N, 80° 27′ 44″ °E. 48 m above sea level, WL2a) in Galle district to inve...
Source: Environmental Quality Management - March 6, 2023 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Saman Mohan Dissanayake,
Indika Rohan Palihakkara Tags: RESEARCH ARTICLE Source Type: research
Carcinogenic effect of potential toxic metals in school children through contaminated drinking water around the industrial area of Pakistan
This study discusses all the HD and LFCR parameter in three age group children, male and female through drinking water around the Hattar Industrial Estate (HIE) in Pakistan. In children and women more HD and LFCR thread than the adult man. The overall result shows that the HD risk is higher than the LFCR due to the PTMs in drinking water only HD is exceed from the limit of WHO and Pak-EPA. If there is no proper arrangement take place for the removal of As and PTMs from the industrial wastewater and drinking water than within few years all the population around the study area effected with different type of cancer. (Source:...
Source: Environmental Quality Management - March 4, 2023 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Kamran Younas,
Asma Jamil,
Ansa Rukya Saleem Tags: RESEARCH ARTICLE Source Type: research
Hydrochemistry of drinking water sources and water purifiers in relation to epidemiological study in Hisar, North ‐West India
This study involves the analysis of water samples from various drinking water sources in a rural site, Mirchpur village, an Indus Valley civilization site (grid location: 29 ° 18′ 42.3″ N, 76° 10′ 33.0″ E) of Hisar, India, along with the health survey of human subjects. The hydrochemistry of water collected from hand pumps, river canals, tube wells, submersibles, and the RO systems installed in various homes was explored for pH, EC, TH, TDS, turbidity, cations (Na+, Ca2+, Mg2+), anions (CO32 −, HCO3−, Cl−, SO42 −, NO3−, F−), and elements (Fe, Pb, Se) employing the ion chromatography, flame photometry,...
Source: Environmental Quality Management - March 3, 2023 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Nirankar Singh,
Renu Bala,
Twinkle Poonia Tags: RESEARCH ARTICLE Source Type: research
Leachate characteristics, dry matter yield of Urochloa decumbens and properties of two contrasting soils irrigated with sludgewater in columns
AbstractIncreasing demands on freshwater and challenges in disposal of wastewaters encourage their use for irrigation. The study evaluated the effects of irrigation of signal grass (Urochloa decumbens) with sludgewater on leaching, uptake and retention of a range of elements in two contrasting soils in columns. The grass was grown on a sandy loam and a clay soil packed in plastic columns and irrigated for 119 days with either undiluted, diluted sludgewater or tap water. The sludgewater had a pH of 6.9 and high aluminum (Al), manganese (Mn), iron (Fe), and boron (B). Analyses were conducted on leachates, above-ground plant ...
Source: Environmental Quality Management - February 28, 2023 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Sinikiwe Dube,
Pardon Muchaonyerwa,
Farai Mapanda,
Jeffrey C. Hughes Tags: RESEARCH ARTICLE Source Type: research
