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Specialty Chemical Production, Use, and Disposal: 5 Practices for Sustainability

The Environmental Blog

Chemicals also treat water, so it’s safe to drink and make medicines into easily digestible forms such as tablets or capsules. Their production is often linked to high carbon emissions , water pollution, and plastic waste problems. Using specialty chemicals in laundry detergents can also minimize water and soil pollution.

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How farmers and seaweed can help tackle ocean pollution

Business Green

Chock-full of vitamins, minerals and antioxidants, seaweed has been a staple of Asian diets and traditional medicine for centuries, and its various applications in food production and scientific research date back decades. Seaweed's potential as a solution to this crisis is two-fold, scientists and environmentalists say.

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Improve the Air Quality in Your Office With These 5 Plants

Green Business Bureau

They can remove several harmful compounds from the air and break them down into their soil. Causes of Indoor Air Pollution. The US Government’s environmental agencies report that indoor air pollution is currently America’s biggest pollution issue. Solutions for Indoor Air Pollution.

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Sustainable alternatives to garden lawns: Part 1

Low Impact

The type, pH, quality, and fertility of the soil. Provide other yields, such as fuel for heating, timber, and natural materials for crafting and DIY projects, herbal medicines, etc. Decreasing the impact of pollution/smells from nearby roads. Reducing noise pollution from roads or nearby properties.

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Wildfires are getting worse, and so is the deadly smoke they bring with them

Grist

By the second day, the Santa Barbara County Public Health Department and the county’s Air Pollution Control District had issued an air-quality warning, and local libraries and nonprofits urged residents to protect themselves from the harmful smoke and ash, offering free N95 respirator masks. A new lead crisis? By mid-century, as the U.S.

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Government says beavers can stay in their Devon home

Envirotec Magazine

The positive role that beavers could have in improving water-quality, with their dams acting as filters which trap soil and other pollutants from surrounding farmland. The beavers’ dam building activities had also helped reduce the risk of flooding to some flood-threatened human settlements.

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Want to prevent California’s looming flood disaster? Grow a marsh.

Grist

As they walled off rivers and created dry islands from what was previously soggy marsh, they discovered incredibly rich soil. No one foresaw that this very bounty — soil rich with organic material — would, over time, become a curse of sorts. That organic material contains copious amounts of carbon. And the land began to sink.

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