- Industry: NGO
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The United Nations Organization (UNO), or simply United Nations (UN), is an international organization whose stated aims are facilitating cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, social progress, human rights, and the achieving of world peace.
Pollution created by mishandling and inappropriate storage of spent nuclear fuel rods, and pieces of protective clothing and tools that have become contaminated, and by insecure transportation of highly radioactive material over long distances to a processing plant.
Industry:Environment
Process of (primary) waste-water treatment whereby coagulants such as hydrolysing salts of aluminium and iron are added to the water and a hydrolysis reaction leads to the formation of water-insoluble iron and aluminium hydroxides which settle as suspended particles.
Industry:Environment
System of collectors, pipelines, conduits and pumps to evacuate waste water (rainwater, domestic and other waste water) from any of the points of generation either to a municipal sewage treatment plant or to a point where waste water is discharged into surface water.
Industry:Environment
Treatment methods that are used to effect the complete breakdown of hazardous waste into non-toxic gases or, more frequently, to modify the chemical properties of the waste, for example, through reduction of water solubility or neutralization of acidity or alkalinity.
Industry:Environment
Exceeding of certain threshold limits of population density when environmental resources fail to meet the requirements of individual organisms regarding shelter, nutrition and so forth. It gives rise to high rates of mortality and morbidity. See also carrying capacity.
Industry:Environment
Warming of the earth's atmosphere caused by a build-up of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse or trace gases that act like a pane of glass in a greenhouse, allowing sunlight to pass through and heat the earth but preventing a counterbalancing loss of heat radiation.
Industry:Environment
Channel or conduit that carries waste water, sewage and storm water from their source to a treatment plant or receiving stream. A sanitary sewer conveys household and commercial wastes, a storm sewer transports rain run-off and a combined sewer is used for both purposes.
Industry:Environment
Excess fluorine in the body, which may result in changes in the skeleton and ossification of tendons and ligaments. Exposure results from outdoor pollution (in air and water) and indoor pollution (in the insecticide, aluminium-mining and phosphate-fertilizer industries).
Industry:Environment
1. Areas where groups of housing units have been constructed on land that the occupants have no legal claim to, or occupy illegally. 2. Unplanned settlements and areas where housing is not in compliance with current planning and building regulations (unauthorized housing).
Industry:Environment
Installation or a part of an installation that has been adapted in order to generate less or no pollution. In clean as opposed to "end-of-pipe" technology, the environmental equipment is integrated into the production process. See also environmentally sound technologies.
Industry:Environment
