Some dentists throw their excess amalgam into special medical waste ("red bag") containers, believing this to be an environmentally safe disposal practice.
Accompanying construction standards could help ensure forest products retain their carbon by using specific construction and disposal practices.
Plus, he said, a new public-disclosure law about toxic waste dumping could encourage business to clean up its disposal practices.
BMDi offered health communities and workplaces throughout the world a safer, more cost effective way to solve unsafe injection or disposal practices.
Because of their poor storage and disposal practices, industrial waste was discharged into the soil, river, wetlands, and a gravel pit.
At many locations, chromium compounds have been released to the environment via leakage, poor storage, or improper disposal practices.
The most pressing problem in Tanzania is the lack of sustainable disposal practices for waste.
In past statements, lab officials traced the contamination from past disposal practices.
Specific information documenting disposal practices is not available.
One source of perchlorate in drinking water is the past production of solid rocket propellants using perchlorate, combined with poor disposal practices.