Long-Term Performance and Deicing Effect of Sustained-Release Snow Melting Asphalt Mixture by Jian Zhou, Jing Li, Guoqiang Liu, Tao Yang, Yongli Zhao

“…To accelerate snow and ice melting, traditional chloride-based salts are spreaded on asphalt pavement surface, causing serious environmental pollution and infrastructure corrosion. For sustained-release snow melting asphalt mixture, the snow melting agent of Mafilon is directly added to asphalt mixture by replacing partial mineral powder to develop a new type of functional asphalt mixture. …”
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Degradation of High-Concentration Nitrate Nitrogen in Groundwater: A Laboratory Study by Manxi Liu, Lu Xia, Ruinan Liu, Zongjun Gao, Cong Han, Jianguo Feng, Jing Wang, Wanlong Qu, Tongju Xing

“…To investigate effective and reasonable methods for the remediation of nitrate nitrogen pollution in groundwater, two groups of laboratory denitrification experiments were conducted: one on the effect of native denitrifying microbes in groundwater and another on the effect of artificially added denitrifying microbes. …”
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EMISSIONS MONITORING OF HEAVY METALS AND THEIR COMPOUNDS RESULTED FROM COMBUSTION PROCESSES IN CLINKER KILNS IN ROMANIA by CRISTIAN CIOBANU, GHEORGHE VOICU, MAGDALENA – LAURA TOMA, PAULA TUDOR

“… With the dust arising from the clinker kilns and grill coolers (the major pollution sources in a cement plant), also heavy metals and their compounds (in the form of powders and vaporous), originating from fuels and raw materials, are pumped into the air. …”
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Recovery and Modification of Waste Tire Particles and Their Use as Reinforcements of Concrete by Eduardo Sadot Herrera-Sosa, Gonzalo Martínez-Barrera, Carlos Barrera-Díaz, Epifanio Cruz-Zaragoza, Fernando Ureña-Núñez

“…Environmental pollution caused by solid wastes is increasing in the last decades; one of these is referred to automotive tires, which are recycled by different methods, including mechanical grinding. …”
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Energy optimization for rural communities: an integrated approach to hybrid PV/Battery/Diesel systems by Jhon Jhonathan Peñalva-Sánchez, Jaime Eulogio Luyo- Kuong, Juan Manuel Peralta-Jaramillo, José Carlos Álvarez-Merino

“…Finally, the environmental impact of the system with and without a diesel generator is compared based on the amount of emission of pollutants in the environment throughout the year. …”
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Modification of Lipid Profile in Commercial Cow Milk Samples before and after Their Expiration Date: Evaluation of Storage Crucial Parameters and Possible Environmentally Friendly... by Eduardo Sommella, Manuela Giovanna Basilicata, Gian Carlo Tenore, Michele Manfra, Raffaella Mastrocinque, Carmine Ostacolo, Andrea Vitale, Marcello Chieppa, Pietro Campiglia, Giacomo Pepe

“…Milk waste is considered a highly polluting material and its disposal is an economic and environmental problem for the dairy sector. …”
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Analysis of 31 Hydrazones of Carbonyl Compounds by RRLC-UV and RRLC-MS(/MS): A Comparison of Methods by Soraya de M. Ochs, Maíra Fasciotti, Annibal D. Pereira Netto

“…Carbonyl compounds (CC) are atmospheric pollutants with known damaging effects for the human’s health. …”
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Numerical simulation of waste landfill biodegradation: Fitting experimental data by Vladimir Buelvas-Hernandez, Juliana Lucía Moreno-Medina, Marcela Mercado-Montoya

“…Landfill remains economically viable for the disposal of Municipal Solid Waste (MSW), however, experiences of failure in several Colombian and global locations, lead to soil, water, and air pollution, harming ecosystems, and biodiversity. Numerical models can help improve the design by considering biodegradation, hydraulic, thermal, and mechanical phenomena involved in landfills. …”
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Assessment of Resistance and Bioremediation Ability of Lactobacillus Strains to Lead and Cadmium by Anna V. Kirillova, Anna A. Danilushkina, Denis S. Irisov, Nataliya L. Bruslik, Rawil F. Fakhrullin, Yuri A. Zakharov, Vladimir S. Bukhmin, Dina R. Yarullina

“…Cadmium (Cd) and lead (Pb) are heavy metals, important environmental pollutants, and potent toxicants to organism. Lactic acid bacteria (LAB) have been reported to remove Cd and Pb from solutions and therefore represent a useful tool for decontamination of food and beverages from heavy metals. …”
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Microwave Heating as an Alternative Quarantine Method for Disinfestation of Stored Food Grains by Ipsita Das, Girish Kumar, Narendra G. Shah

“…Recent studies have indicated that microwave treatment is a potential means of replacing other techniques because of selective heating, pollution free environment, equivalent or better quality retention, energy minimization, and so forth. …”
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Contaminants in the Urban Environment: Microplastics by Yun-Ya Yang, Ignacio A. Rodriguez-Jorquera, Maia McGuire, Gurpal S. Toor

“…This 6-page fact sheet discusses the sources of microplastics, their effects on the environment, and ways to minimize microplastics pollution and exposure. Written by Yun-Ya Yang, Ignacio A. …”
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Use of a Full Factorial Design to Study the Relationship between Water Absorption and Porosity of GP and BW Mortar Activated by Nadia Tebbal, Mekki Maza, Zine El Abidine Rahmouni

“…The results concluded that mortar activated combined with 10% BW and 90% GP could be utilized in the industry of construction with minimum pollution problems and environment-friendly building materials, with the effect variables significantly affecting the responses.…”
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Hexavalent Chromium Removal by a Paecilomyces sp. Fungal Strain Isolated from Environment by Juan F. Cárdenas-González, Ismael Acosta-Rodríguez

“…These results indicate that reducing capacity of chromate resistant filamentous fungus Cr (VI) could be useful for the removal of Cr (VI) pollution.…”
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Multivariate Analysis of Confined Groundwater Hydrochemistry of a Long-Exploited Sedimentary Basin in Northwest China by Xuedi Zhang, Hui Qian, Hao Wu, Jie Chen, Liang Qiao

“…PCA showed that the hydrochemistry of confined water is controlled mainly by the dissolution of minerals, mixing between the confined aquifer and polluted phreatic water, and effects of ion exchange in the study area. …”
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Environmental Impact Assessment of Road construction in Afghanistan (A case study of Jalalabad city) by Zalmay khaliqi, kaiwaan abdulhai, Mohammad Ajmal Stanakzai

“…Through observational and questionnaire-based surveys, the study identifies key environmental and socio-economic issues, including the destruction of approximately 5,096 square meters of land, loss of agricultural areas, private properties, and vegetation, as well as increased air and noise pollution. The findings reveal that 138 trees were removed, infrastructure such as irrigation systems was destroyed, and affected communities faced unmet compensation promises. …”
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Landuse culture and water quality (BOD, COD, DO) in the upper citarum river corridor by Setiawan Iwan, Rohmat Dede, Ismail Arif, Suhendro Suhendro

“…The objectives of this study include several points to analyze (1) the correlation between land use culture and water quality (BOD, COD and DO); (2) constructing a strategy for handling water quality pollution in the upper Citarum river corridor. The method used was a survey with a regional approach through geospatial and correlation analysis. …”
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Decolorization of mixture of dyes: A critical review by V. K. Gupta, S. Khamparia, I. Tyagi, D. Jaspal, A. Malviya

“…About 17 - 20% of freshwater pollution is caused by textile effluents. These effluents are recalcitrant to biodegradation and cause acute toxicity to the receiving water bodies, as these comprised of various types of toxic dyes, which are difficult to remove. …”
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Influence of host plant and rice straw as substrate on mass multiplication of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi for largeâscale agricultural application by Nisha Kadian, Kuldeep Yadav, Esha Jangra, Ashok Aggarwal

“…It is recurrently burned resulting in producing overheating, soil degradation, and air and water pollution. Method A pot experiment was designed under polyhouse conditions to evaluate the effects of rice straw as a substrate with Sorghum bicolor (L.) …”
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Crystal growth principles, methods, properties of silicon carbide and its new process prepared from silicon cutting waste by Shengqian Zhang, Yongsheng Ren, Xingwei Yang, Wenhui Ma, Hui Chen, Guoqiang Lv, Yun Lei, Yi Zeng, Zhengxing Wang, Bingxi Yu

“…In the process of silicon wafer production, nearly half of the crystalline silicon is lost in the form of silicon powder into silicon cutting waste (SCW), which results in a great waste of resources and severe environmental pollution, and therefore the use of SCW for the preparation of SiC materials has received great attention in recent years. …”
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Food packaging films from natural polysaccharides and protein hydrogels: A comprehensive review by Mou Zhao, Ping Han, Hongyan Mu, Suling Sun, Juan Dong, Jingtao Sun, Shiling Lu, Qingling Wang, Hua Ji

“…The development of innovative, biodegradable food packaging materials to combat plastic pollution has garnered significant attention from scholars and government agencies worldwide. …”
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