Waste resourcing

L. Carter, Nuclear Imperatives and Public Trust Dealing with Radioactive Waste, Resources for the Euture, Washiagton, D.C., 1987. 

The organization has wasted resources in spending time, money, and effort in training workers who realize that they are unlikely to use the training. 

Materials recycling or resource recycling is essentially resource recovery, which is the means by which waste resources usually destined for disposal are used as secondary resources or secondary raw materials to serve as valued inputs to the economy, fulfilling both producer and consumer needs. Resource recycling, as has been pointed out, increases the supply of available material, and thereby offers a potentially attractive means of reducing... 

Nasmyth You can t have any one of these things limiting, because that is a very inefficient way of doing it. I suspect that most steps will be rate limiting because if it is any one of them you are wasting resources. 

The opportunities to harness solar, wind, wave, falling water and biomass-waste resources are projected to exceed any wealth created by the exploitation of oil. Progressing past the Oil Age means an important economy of wealth expansion from energy-intensive goods and services with renewable energy. 

The expansion of the market, however, will depend considerably on the possibility of an efficient use of other biomass sources, particularly lignocellulosic-based materials, fast growing dedicated crops, and waste resources. Effective integration of bioethanol production into biorefineries will also be a key aspect in decreasing the price by a better use of all the components of biomass. 

P. Stepnowski, K.-H. Blotevogel, P. Ganczarek, U. Fischer and B. Jastorff, Total recycling of chromatographic solvents — applied management of methanol and acetonitrile waste. Resource Conserv. Recycl. 35 (2002) 163-175. 

Plastic Waste Resource Recovery Recycle in Japan. Plastic Waste Institute, 1987. 

There are many methods of analyzing variability and uncertainty and many ways of presenting the results. Inappropriate use of these methods gives misleading results, and experts differ on what is appropriate. Disagreement about which methods are appropriate will lead to wasted resources, conflict over results, and reduced credibility with decision makers and the public. There is, therefore, a need to reach a consensus on how to choose and use appropriate methods, and to present this in the form of guidance for prospective users. 

To avoid wasting resources by overretining assessments, avoid paralysis by analysis, and reassure stakeholders that the assessment process is finite, criteria are needed for deciding when to stop. 

Lack of access to medicines and inappropriate doses result in serious morbidity and mortality, particularly for childhood infections and chronic diseases, such as hypertension, diabetes, epilepsy and mental disorders. Inappropriate use and over-use of medicines waste resources - often out-of-pocket payments by patients - and result in significant patient harm in terms of poor patient outcomes and adverse drug reactions. Furthermore, over-use of antimicrobials is leading to increased antimicrobial resistance and non-sterile injections to the transmission of hepatitis, HIV/AIDS and other blood-borne diseases. Finally, irrational over-use of medicines can stimulate inappropriate patient demand, and lead to reduced access and attendance rates due to medicine stock-outs and loss of patient confidence in the health system. 

Landes and Posner (1987, Chapter 9) and Robinson (1985) argue that courts should not waste resources determining whether substance X caused malignancy y in individual z. Instead, courts should compensate those who have been exposed to a carcinogen an amount equal to the expected value of damages based on the population s disease probabilities. Such compensation would send the correct signals to both firms and consumers and conserve resources that are currently used in fruitless attempts to determine cause and effect at the individual level (National Research Council 1991,43). Individuals could use the compensation to buy insurance and share the risk of later disease among themselves. 

A logical and systematic approach to each experimental situation is essential. Any experiment that is performed without first defining a logical approach is certain to waste resources. The right balance between overplanning and underplanning should always be sought. 

Allen Clamen Yes. I mentioned earlier that Stage 3 development activities take the bulk of the cost, time, and resource utilization. If a project can fail prior to that full development stage, you will be much more successful than if you had to waste resources to get to that point. 

Hazardous Waste Resources Conservation and Recovery Act Comprehensive Environmental Response Compensation and Liability Act Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act... 

Marine, I.W. (1979) The use of naturally occurring helium to estimate groundwater velocities for studies of geologic storage of radioactive waste. Waste Resourc. Res. 15, 1130-1136. 

ANGLIAN WINDOWS LTD. UK,WASTE RESOURCES ACTION PROGRAMME... 

Step (11). How to talk to the audience. There are many options to reach your audience television, radio, press (including the trade press), cinema, telephone sales, folders, the Internet... You must try to find those niches that reach and influence your target audience, but, as far as possible, not others. Otherwise you are sure to waste resources and make a nuisance out of yourself (see also Appendix 15-1). 

Performance Qualification (PQ) must be carried out by the user. This is where verification is done to ensure that aU systems work together under as-used conditions to meet the User Requirement Specification. Do room temperature, humidity, and pressure stay in spec with production underway and people entering and leaving the facility AU systems must be operational to complete PQ. Cooperation between the various contractors (mechanical, controls, etc.) is vital to completing PQ in a timely and cost-effective manner. As discussed earlier the user and the designer must sit down at the beginning of the project and determine critical (validated) and noncritical areas. Do not waste resources and money validating noncritical areas. 

A. G. Buekens and H. Huang, Catalytic plastics cracking for recovery of gasoline-range hydrocarbons from municipal plastic wastes. Resources, Conservation and Recycling, 23, 163 (1998). 

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