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Challenges and Benefits of Combining AI with Blockchain for Sustainable Environment
Published in Keshav Kaushik, Shubham Tayal, Susheela Dahiya, Ayodeji Olalekan Salau, Sustainable and Advanced Applications of Blockchain in Smart Computational Technologies, 2023
Ebenezer Leke Odekanle, Bamidele Sunday Fakinle, Olayomi Abiodun Falowo, Oludare Johnson Odejobi
Pollution prevention is therefore an essential component of sustainable environment because the best way to create a clean and habitable environment is to reduce pollution generation. This can be achieved by designing an environmentally friendly and smart process through a technology-based intelligent system that understands how wastes are generated, minimized and/or prevented as well as how raw material, natural resources and energy can be efficiently utilized. Pollution prevention will reduce the waste disposal problems and cost, create healthier environments and enhance sound environmental management. Therefore, the idea of avoidance of pollutants generation, rather than end-of-pipe treatment, should be the first priority in an environmental management hierarchy among which are prevention, treatment, recycling, etc.
Sustainable Eco-Friendly Polymer-Based Membranes Used in Water Depollution for Life-Quality Improvement
Published in Neha Kanwar Rawat, Iuliana Stoica, A. K. Haghi, Green Polymer Chemistry and Composites, 2021
Adina Maria Dobos, Mihaela Dorina Onofrei, Anca Filimon
The hazards on the environmental and human health generated by the release of various synthetic chemicals are under constant debate. There is no doubt that this debate will continue until the science resolves the uncertainties concerning toxicological data (exposure, transport, etc.) and risk analysis. Industry and society have traditionally dealt with the reduction of these risks focusing on the exposure decrease. The risk can be reduced through pollution prevention, defined as the use of processes, practices, materials, or products that avoid or reduce the pollution from the source. Pollution prevention may include recycling, process changes, mechanism for environment safety control, efficient resources use, and materials substitution. In addition, the pollution control can be achieved through an environmentally safe treatment, providing an opportunity to devise creative strategies for the protection of the human health and environment, and to formulate innovative approaches for building a sustainable planet.
Sources and Characteristics
Published in David H.F. Liu, Béla G. Lipták, Wastewater Treatment, 2020
Larry W. Canter, Negib Harfouche
Clean technology, pollution prevention, and waste minimization are technical and managerial activities that can reduce the pollution emissions from industrial operations (Freeman et al. 1992; Hirschhorn and Oldenburg 1991; and Office of Technology Assessment 1986). Clean technology refers to applying technical processes to minimize waste material from the processes themselves (Johansson 1992). Pollution prevention relates to approaches that prevent pollution from occurring, including the incorporation of clean technology. Other housekeeping and conservation practices can be included in pollution prevention. Waste minimization tries to minimize negative impacts on the environment by reducing the amount of waste material from operations. Such waste reductions include applying pollution control technologies, chemical substitutions, clean technologies, and other activities that minimize the waste generated.
Water law and the response to COVID-19
Published in Water International, 2020
In many ways the three agendas overlap harmoniously. Pollution prevention measures protect public health from harmful contaminants, and adequate water supplies protect public health with sufficient water for drinking, hygiene and sanitation. However, these agendas can also conflict in ways that threaten public health. For example, water infrastructure developed in connection with the Blue Agenda, like a dam or irrigation system, could bring more standing water closer to human populations and thus increase interaction between humans and disease vectors, like mosquitoes. Or permitting requirements for the discharge of pollutants required in connection with the Green Agenda could delay effective discharge of pesticides to waterbodies acting as habitat for disease vectors. With regard to COVID-19, laws allowing water shutoffs for nonpayment of tariffs may encourage water conservation to further the Blue Agenda, but could cut off water for hygiene that is essential to slow and stop the spread of the virus. Some measures intended to control pathogens under the Red Agenda may interfere with the other water agendas, as well. For example, government efforts to encourage people to work from home to slow the spread of COVID-19 results in less water moving through pipes in schools and office buildings, which in some cases could increase the risk of the spread of Legionella when people return to these buildings.
Inclusion of environmental impacts in life-cycle cost analysis of bridge structures
Published in Sustainable and Resilient Infrastructure, 2020
Zhujun Wang, David Y. Yang, Dan M. Frangopol, Weiliang Jin
Pollution prevention aims to reduce or prevent the emissions of harmful substances, and there are mainly three types of approaches: (1) system upgrade to improve energy efficiency and reduce harmful emissions, (2) emission treatment to reduce harmful substances, and (3) imposing fines and taxes on untreated harmful emissions. Therefore, prevention cost is composed of the costs of system upgrade, emission treatment, and pollution-related expenses including fines and taxes. Assuming that the business model of producers is always cost-driven, the environmental cost for a construction product is, thus, the minimal cost of all potential pollution prevention measures (e.g., system upgrade, emission treatment and expense payment) that could have been implemented during the manufacturing and/or construction process. In general, the total environmental cost can be expressed as follows:
An empirical explanation of the natural-resource-based view of the firm
Published in Production Planning & Control, 2019
Natalie McDougall, Beverly Wagner, Jill MacBryde
More specifically, Pollution prevention seeks to promote environmental sustainability whilst simultaneously cutting costs and maximizing efficiency throughout internal operations (Hart and Dowell 2011). In preventing internal waste and emissions (Aragon-Correa and Sharma 2003) costs associated with disposal are avoided and internal operations streamlined (Russo and Fouts 1997; Christmann 2000). Product stewardship extends environmental sustainability towards external operations, seeking conservation, avoidance of harmful substances and recyclability from a lifecycle perspective (Hart 1995). Alongside environmental and economic advantages this is intended to permit access to scarce resources and the creation of wholly sustainable products as a source of competitive advantage (Ashby, Leat, and Hudson-Smith 2012; Golicic and Smith 2013). Sustainable development promotes the consideration of economic, environmental and social issues on a global scale (Hart 1995; Srivastava and Hart 1995). New manufacturing processes in support of environmental advancement and new business markets in support of social advancement promote positive impact operations (Hart 1997; Song et al. 2015). Opportunities for competitive gain arise in the creation of such processes ahead of competitors and access to new, unsaturated markets of the future (Hart 1995).