Environmentally safer product production

Guides to purchasing safer electronics have also been developed and made available to consumers. EPEAT, developed through an EPA-led collaboration, has been used to assess and make publicly available the environmental profile (Gold, Silver, Bronze) of computer equipment products. Individual computer manufacturers have also developed tools to distinguish safer products. Hewlett Packard s Eco Highlights... 

The identification of new natural product structural classes active against insects will attack the pest-resistance problem and provide environmentally safer insecticides. The marine environment, with its chemical diversity, clearly holds an enormous potential to provide leads for the development of insecticidal agents. Many marine-derived structural classes have not yet been examined for their insecticidal activity. Further SAR studies of these marine natural products could lead to new and more selective insecticidal agents. 

The 1977 Seveso accident, which resulted in the contamination of a large area of Northern Italy with dioxin, further increased the societal pressure for safer production, use, and disposal of chemicals, and the activation of coalitions within the European Community. The authority to introduce environmental legislation was also strengthened... 

A dairy farm processing 100 ton of milk per day produces approximately the same quantity of organic products in its effluent as would a town with 55,000 residents. However, legislative regulations for the dumping of whey are forcing industries to come up with alternatives to make this process of elimination environmentally safer. One with attractive potential involves the use of thermophilic microorganisms to produce a... 

Some human skin sensitizing activity of lib (IPPD) has been reported for many years. Although this activity does not limit the commercial application of lib at all, safer derivatives, like the respective 1,3-dimethylbutyl analogue 11c have been preferred and have been delivered by all principal producers. Moreover, new environmentally safer technologies were introduced for PD production [312],... 

W. Pietsch, Briquetting of coal (Can an ancient technology be modified for the production of environmentally safer smokeless fuels ). Proc. 21st Biennial Conf of IBA, New Orleans, LA (1989), 303-320. 

The environmental benefits are (1) reduced use of strong acids and bases, (2) reduced energy consumption (less greenhouse gas), (3) less corrosive waste, and (4) safer production environment for workers. The consumer benefits are (1) sweetener availability and stable prices (i.e., due to the ability to source from starch as an alternative to sugar cane and sugar beets), (2) consistent, and (3) higher quality syrups. 

To characterize the potential for human exposure and environmental release, the PMN submitter must describe occupational exposure, including the estimated number of workers exposed to the substance, the activities during which they would be exposed, and any protective equipment or engineering controls that would reduce exposure. Estimates of environmental release and exposme must include estimates of releases to air, surface water, land, incineration, or other media. The PMN form also requests optional pollution prevention information. The submitter may provide information on how the proposed manufacturing process or use of the new chemical substance contributes to source reduction, recycling achvities, and safer products or processes. The US EPA takes this informahon into account when assessing potential risks. 

As we see the potential use of inhibitors in agriculture and in particular, to protect plants from pests wide. Such an ap>proach to crop protection against loss of environmentally safer and economically more advantageous. Since there is no need to conduct expensive toxicological studies of new insecticides. The products of these plants are safe for humans and animals. And the use of transgenic technology will accelerate the development of new, resistant to insect p>ests, plant varieties. 

Current trends in industrial production are toward the introduction of environmentally safer biotechnological processes, using microorganisms such as bacteria... 

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