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JUSTIN, Texas, Aug. 30, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- While the choice to integrate a pond into one's garden, landscape or golf course generally results in the overall enhancement and beauty of the landscape, many consumers do not realize the amount of work that goes into maintaining that beauty. Over time, contaminants inevitably begin to build up and create unsightly and foul-smelling sludge. Fortunately Bio S.I. Technology (www.biositechnology.com) has developed a break-through formula that...

LONDON, July 18, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- (RPRN) -- UK engraving specialist Sign Industries has just been awarded a new contract to engrave a specialist tool produced by A.Hak Industrial Services. A.Hak Industrial Services provides a range of specialised industrial, pipeline and inspection services to the petro chemical, refining and pipeline industries. The new project awarded to Sign Industries was to engrave a Tank Sludge Profiler; a tool A.Hak Industrial Services use to inspect tanks. The...

Suspended solids are materials that resist settling and remain suspended in water and other liquids. The ability to automatically concentrate suspended solids containing very-low concentration of microorganisms has been a troublesome task for scientists and researchers. Today this task is usually performed using Enviro-check cartridges, spending 6 hours for collection and then this process requires very complex process consisting of more than 20 steps prior to the concentrated samples of...

A new report released Monday by Britain's largest organic certification body finds that the world's supply of phosphate rock is running out faster than previously believed, posing a threat to global food security. "Intensive agriculture is totally dependent on phosphate for the fertility needed to grow crops and grass," said the Soil Association.The global supply of phosphorus from mined phosphate rock could peak as early as 2033, after which it will become increasingly costly and scarce, the...

Killing microorganisms has become a national obsession. A pair of antimicrobial compounds known as triclosan and triclocarban are lately the weapons of choice in our war of attrition against the microbial world. Both chemicals are found in an array of personal care products like antimicrobial soaps, and triclosan also is formulated into everyday items ranging from plastics and toys to articles of clothing.But are these antimicrobial chemicals, as commonly used by people across the nation,...

HONOLULU, Nov. 3, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- Hungary's toxic sludge spill is being called one of Europe's top three environmental disasters of the past few decades. On October 4, an enormous chemical-filled reservoir maintained by an Alumina plant in Ajka, western Hungary ruptured, inundating several villages with nearly 200 million gallons of toxic sludge. Immediately upon hearing of the spill, CBI Polymers, a Hawaii-based company that specializes in a unique decontamination product called...

By Jeff Harrison, University of ArizonaA 19-year UA study shows that the end product of municipally treated wastewater is generally free of any pathogenic organisms that might harm humans or the environment.A newly published report from a University of Arizona research group says biosolids, properly treated, pose little if any health risk to the public. The study, "Pathogens in Biosolids: Are They Safe?," is online in the Journal of Environmental Quality.Ian L. Pepper, director of...

The red, metal-laden sludge that escaped a containment pond in Hungary last week could be made less toxic with the help of carbon sequestration, says an Indiana University Bloomington geologist who has a patent pending on the technique.The bauxite residue now covers 40 square kilometers south of the Danube River, and has caused the deaths of eight Hungarians and injured at least 150. The residue also has caused the extinction of life in a local river and as yet unknown environmental damage...

EXTON, Pa., Oct. 12 /PRNewswire/ -- PMC BioTec, a global leader in energy-efficient biological technologies for waste water solutions, announced it was chosen by AlwaysOn as one of the GoingGreen Silicon Valley Top 100 winners. PMC BioTec was specially selected by the AlwaysOn editorial team and industry experts spanning the globe based on a set of five criteria: innovation, market potential, commercialization, stakeholder value, and media buzz. "The GoingGreen Silicon Valley Top 100...

Like the little engine that could, the University of Nevada, Reno experiment to transform wastewater sludge to electrical power is chugging along, dwarfed by the million-gallon tanks, pipes and pumps at the Truckee Meadows Water Reclamation Facility where, ultimately, the plant's electrical power could be supplied on-site by the process University researchers are developing."We are very pleased with the results of the demonstration testing of our research," Chuck Coronella, principle...