[HTML][HTML] Tendencies towards bottled drinking water consumption: Challenges ahead of polyethylene terephthalate (PET) waste management

H Aslani, P Pashmtab, A Shaghaghi… - Health Promotion …, 2021 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background: The main objective of this study was to investigate the logics behind
tendencies towards bottled drinking water usage in spite of availability of treated tap water …

[HTML][HTML] Testing metallic iron filtration systems for decentralized water treatment at pilot scale

R Tepong-Tsindé, R Crane, C Noubactep, A Nassi… - Water, 2015 - mdpi.com
There are many factors to consider for the design of appropriate water treatment systems
including: cost, the concentration and type of biological and/or chemical contamination …

Waste to wealth using green chemistry

JH Clark, AS Matharu - 2013 - books.rsc.org
ABSTRACT A holistic overview of global waste, focussing on food supply chain waste
(FSCW) and waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) as two exemplars of …

[HTML][HTML] White teeth and healthy skeletons for all: The path to universal fluoride-free drinking water in Tanzania

AI Ndé-Tchoupé, R Tepong-Tsindé, M Lufingo… - Water, 2019 - mdpi.com
Fluorosis has been prevalent in the great East African Rift Valley (EARV) since before this
region was given a name. In the Tanganyika days, Germans reported elevated fluoride …

The potential use of recycled PET bottle in nanocomposites manufacturing with modified ZnO nanoparticles capped with citric acid: preparation, thermal, and …

S Mallakpour, M Javadpour - RSC advances, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
We devised a fast and facile potential practical application by incorporating the guest ZnO
nanoparticles (NPs) into poly (ethylene terephthalate)(PET) as a host polymer that recycled …

Better than bottled water?—Energy and climate change impacts of on-the-go drinking water stations

T Makov, G Meylan, JT Powell, A Shepon - Resources, Conservation and …, 2019 - Elsevier
Growing consumption of single-use bottled water has received criticism due to potentially
adverse environmental outcomes. Networks of public-sphere water delivery stations have …

[HTML][HTML] Analysis and modeling of coolants and coolers for specimen transportation

DE Lowe, G Pellegrini, E LeMasters, AJ Carter… - PLoS …, 2020 - journals.plos.org
Maintaining cold chain while transporting medical supplies and samples is difficult in remote
settings. Failure to maintain temperature requirements can lead to degraded sample quality …

Bottled water: global impacts and potential

T Younos - Potable Water: Emerging Global Problems and …, 2014 - Springer
This chapter discusses the rationale beyond global expansion of bottled water, components
of bottled water industry, and problems associated with bottled water production and …

Plastic Packaging: Not a Throw‐away Resource

KS Williams - 2013 - books.rsc.org
Global concerns over the decline in the planet's natural resources have seen a change of
emphasis towards resource recovery through re-use, recovery and recycling. The finite …

The thermal, optical, flame retardant, and morphological consequence of embedding diacid‐capped ZnO into the recycled PET matrix

S Mallakpour, M Javadpour - Journal of Applied Polymer …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
We extended our work to a fast and facile nanocomposites (NCs) manufacturing by
incorporation of ZnO nanoparticles (NPs) on to a recycled poly (ethylene terephthalate) PET …