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c. Detox
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was recycled
1. 80% of that -> overseas
Too expensive to use high tech recycling for ewaste,
haz wastes
Physical methods
1. Charcoal or resins to filter
2. Natural processes
Chemical methods
1. Use cyclodxtrin to remove chemical from soil and water
2. Use chemicals reactions to create less harmful
3. Nanomagnets coated to target specific
Biological
1. Phytoremediation
a. Plants filter pollution from soil and water
b. Bioremediation ; bacteria destroy or convert haz
Inincerate them
1. Creates haz ash that must be permanently stored in
specialized vault
v. Plasma arc torch
1. Decompose the haz into H2 and CO
2. Creates a glassy like substance
d. We can store some forms of haz waste
i. Deep well storage system
1. Most used in the US, 64% of liquid haz
2. Can get into the water
ii. Surface inpoundments
1. Needs at least two good liners
2. Can evap harmful chems into the air
3. 70% of storage ponds in US threaten groundwater
4. Overflow
iii. Secure hazardous waste landfill
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earth
ii. Co.s say that they must put it somwehre
iii. People say just reduce the amount
Environmental Justice
i. Everyone must be protected from pollution
International treaties Reduced Haz Waste
i. Basel Convention banned shipment of hazardous waste
1. US did not sign
ii. POPs banned
We can make the transition to low waste
i. Cut waste by 70-85%
ii. Everything is connected
iii. No away
iv. Polluters and producers should pay
v. Mimin nature by recycling and reusing
Industrial Ecosystems: copying nature
i. Biomimincry
ii. Recycle or reuse : resource exchange
iii. Ecoindustrial park
1. Exchange waste outputs
iv. Ecoindustral revolution
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