The Food and Agriculture Industries: Sugar Production Equipment and Waste Streams
The ongoing maintenance of equipment and machines essential to the sugar production process can generate waste streams that require treatment. For example, some petroleum-based solvents leach hazardous metals, like chrome or lead, out of equipment ...
The Food and Agriculture Industries: Sugar Production, Fertilizer and Phosphate Levels
About one quarter of U.S. sugar is produced in Florida. Intensive agricultural production in this environmentally sensitive region requires careful waste management. For example, one of the main issues threatening the Everglades is the amount of p...
The Food and Agriculture Industries: Sugar Production, Pests and Pesticides
With the realization that pesticides pose a serious danger to local ecosystems and, therefore, do not represent the best approach to pest control, researchers began looking for alternative tactics. One approach they came up with was biological cont...