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Nuno Marques de Almeida and Adolfo Crespo
The frequency and severity of natural or human-induced disaster events, such as floods, earthquakes, hurricanes, fires, pandemics, hazardous material spills, groundwater contamination, structural failures, explosions, etc., as well as their impacts, have...
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Sabine Upnere, Iveta Novakova, Normunds Jekabsons, Andrejs Krasnikovs and Arturs Macanovskis
Concrete is a widely used material in various industries, including hazardous waste management. At the same time, its production creates a significant carbon footprint. Therefore, intensive research is being conducted to create more eco-friendly concrete...
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Sajjad Saeb, José A. Capitán and Alfonso Cobo
The steel industry is one of the key industries and its use is inevitable in many industries including construction. In addition to steel, this industry produces massive amounts of electric arc furnace dust (EAFD) that is classified as hazardous waste. U...
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Pengfei Han, Qiguang He, Xiaowei Chen and He Lv
An asteroid impact can potentially destroy life on this planet. Therefore, asteroids should be prevented from impacting the Earth to impede severe disasters. Nuclear explosions are currently the only option to prevent an incoming asteroid impact when the...
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Sarah Barnes, Anzori Georgadze, Andrea Giammanco, Madis Kiisk, Vitaly A. Kudryavtsev, Maxime Lagrange and Olin Lyod Pinto
A key task for customs workers is the interception of hazardous, illegal and counterfeit items in order to protect the health and safety of citizens. However, it is estimated that only a small fraction of cargo is inspected and an even smaller fraction o...
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Stephen McCord, Gregory Reller, Jon Miller and Kim Pingree
MercLokTM P-640 (MercLok) is a proprietary product developed by Albemarle as a mercury (Hg) treatment technology. MercLok captures mercury and sequesters it for a long period under ambient environmental conditions. For this project, MercLok was applied t...
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Anna Sabbatini, Francesca Caridi, Giovanni Birarda, Elisa Costanzi, Adolfo Amici, Giovanna Mobbili, Carla Buosi, Giovanni De Giudici, Daniela Medas and Alessandra Negri
The most often dispersed environmental pollutants that are released both directly and indirectly into the environment that may eventually reach aquatic ecosystems and contaminate aquatic biomes are cigarette butts (CBs). Toxicants such as nicotine, dange...
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Arthur Abinader Vasconcelos, Thomas Len, Alex de Nazaré de Oliveira, Ana Alice Farias da Costa, Allan Rodrigo da Silva Souza, Carlos Emmerson Ferreira da Costa, Rafael Luque, Geraldo Narciso da Rocha Filho, Renata Coelho Rodrigues Noronha and Luís Adriano Santos do Nascimento
This review provides a state-of-the-art summary of distributed zeolite technology, as well as identifying strategies to further promote the absorption of these materials in various areas of study. Zeolites are materials that can be synthesized or found i...
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Manasik M. Nour, Maha A. Tony and Hossam A. Nabwey
The ever-increasing technological advancement and industrialization are leading to a massive discharge of hazardous waste into the aquatic environment, calling on scientists and researchers to introduce environmentally benign solutions. In this regard, t...
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Milan Kragovic, Marija Stojmenovic, Nenad Ristic, Sonja Milicevic, Sanja ?ivkovic, Shanke Liu and Jelena Gulicovski
Solving problems with hazardous waste materials is of crucial importance today. In the presented study, the application of waste vitreous enamel as a cement replacement up to 30% in mortar and concrete production was investigated. The chemical and physic...
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