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Waste disposal
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TL;DR: This article examined the decisions made by corporate executives and government officials that led to the discharge with minimal treatment of hundreds of metric tons of dichloro-diphenyl-trichloroethane (DDT) waste into the Pacific Ocean over several decades.
Abstract: In this article, we examine the decisions made by corporate executives and government officials that led to the discharge with minimal treatment of hundreds of metric tons of dichloro-diphenyl-trichloroethane (DDT) waste into the Pacific Ocean over several decades. After World War II, Montrose Chemical Corporation of California's Los Angeles plant began making the new wonder pesticide, and Montrose executives worked with local officials to develop a waste disposal system that funneled the plant's process wastes into the county sewer system and ultimately into the ocean. Faced with increasing scientific concern about pesticides and a changed political climate in the 1960s, Montrose vigorously defended DDT and relied increasingly on exports to remain profitable. Years after the plant closed, a federal suit forced Montrose and related companies to pay the costs of environmental cleanup.
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10 Sep 2008
TL;DR: In order to relieve the strain on the on-board power supply system of commercial planes from a substantial consumer, namely the galley with its heating and cooling units, the planes are provided with an autonomous, easy-to-handle Power supply system which is built into a catering vehicle (1) of standard dimensions, preferably together with a fuel cell (2) and its fuel tanks (3, 4) and voltage converters (5), said catering vehicle being replaced at the same time as the supply and waste disposal units of the Galley are replaced using catering loaders RE
Abstract: In order to relieve the strain on the on-board power supply system of commercial planes from a substantial consumer, namely the galley with its heating and cooling units, the planes are provided with an autonomous, easy-to-handle power supply system which is built into a catering vehicle (1) of standard dimensions, preferably together with a fuel cell (2) and its fuel tanks (3, 4) and voltage converters (5), said catering vehicle being replaced at the same time as the supply and waste disposal units of the galley are replaced using catering loaders. Such an autonomous, mobile power supply unit can instead or in addition thereto also be mounted in one of the standard baggage or cargo containers to be received in the cargo hold of the plane and can especially power electrical heating and cooling units in other containers.
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TL;DR: Counts of thermophilic campylobacters from 31 different waste water samples were parallel estimated with two different cultivation media and the resulting increased isolation sale obtained with an modified Charcoal-Cefoperazone-Deoxycholat-Medium (MCCD-Medium), was statistically significant.
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20 Apr 2004
TL;DR: In this article, a flexible drainage hose extends from the distal end of sewage pipe on an RV, and a rigid sleeve carries the drainage hose in a first stowed position in which the hose is fully contained in the sleeve and in a second drainage position.
Abstract: A sewage draining system for a recreational vehicle. A flexible drainage hose extends from the distal end of sewage pipe on an RV, and a rigid sleeve carries the drainage hose in a first stowed position in which the hose is fully contained in the sleeve and in a second drainage position. The sleeve is pivotably connected at one end near the distal end of the sewer pipe so that it can swing outwardly from the vehicle.
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TL;DR: In this paper, long-term leaching tests on full-scale radioactive waste blocks were carried out by the Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique (CEA) in France.
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