Occupational Safety and Health: Worker Safety in the Space and Science Industries
toxic chemicals and the as yet unknown chronic and long term effects. Around the same time, experiments with nuclear power exposed workers to the
Subject: toxic
Transcript: certain compounds Are very advantageous, Then you have to find out if they're usable. Are they toxic? Are they corrosive? are they explosive? This is where
The Force of Law: Legislating Against an Environmental Pollutant
California State Senator Richard Mountjoy first became alarmed by the effects of MTBE when using newly reformulated gasoline to clean old cars parts. The new gasoline melted his rubber gloves. Assemblywoman Debra Bowen was alerted to the MTBE proble...
Subject: toxic
Transcript: concerned about it. We found out from some scientific research That it was toxic, That it was actually cancer-causing. And it wasn't doing that much to clean
Chemical Treatment Technologies: Oxidation and Reduction: An Overview
While some metals can be readily precipitated, others cannot be until they are reduced. The clarified water resulting from these processes can then be discharged into a municipal wastewater treatment system.
Subject: toxic
Transcript: toxic, carcinogenic. For disposal purposes it's often transformed into chromium 3... And made much less toxic, much less hazardous. [ narrator ] to
Chemical Treatment Technologies: Precipitation and Toxicity
The electroplating industry uses many chemicals in the process of plating objects like golf clubs and water faucets with metals such as chromium and copper. Before the chemically-laden water used in the electroplating process can be released into s...
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Toxic Plastics
Zoologist and World Wildlife Fund senior scientist Theo Colborn talks about toxic chemicals in everyday items made of plastic.
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Waste, Part I: Hazardous Waste Sites: Del Amo
The Del Amo neighborhood of Los Angles is the location of two adjacent Superfund sites in close proximity to residential neighborhoods. It wasn't until after she moved into her Del Amo neighborhood that Cindy Babich began to investigate health compl...
Subject: toxic
Transcript: [ narrator ] prior to 1980, it was not unusual, nor illegal, for companies to dump corrosive, ignitable, reactive or toxic... hazardous wastes into
Chemical Treatment Technologies: Benign by Design, Biomonitoring, and Enforcement
The future of chemical treatment technology is striving to attain the reduction of waste at its source, and seeking to improve the monitoring of that which is discharged.
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Transcript: levels of pollutants, And that tells us something about the toxicity of that effluent, But it doesn't really tell us How those chemicals work together
Thermal Treatment Technologies: Risks and Rewards of Thermal Destruction
Thermal destruction of hazardous wastes has much potential, but it has aroused much public concern, as well. Even the best such techniques are only safe and effective when they are controlled and done properly--something that is not always the case.
Subject: toxic
Transcript: instance, when you talk about the toxicity of products, Something like wood smoke from a fireplace is very toxic smoke. There's a lot of pollutants formed