The Issue of Environmental Impact of Fashion Waste on Landfills Summary of the issue Driven by my passion for sustainable fashion‚ I am particularly interested in the environmental impact of garment waste ending up in landfills. Every year‚ 0.5 million tonnes of clothing are dumped into landfill sites in the world (M&S.com‚ 2013). Furthermore‚ one in four garments sold is thrown away each year. Textile waste in landfills is now raising environmental issues. For example‚ synthetic fibre products
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able to understand: What are hydrocarbons? What are their properties? What are the main products derived from crude oil and their uses Exploration milestone-an overview. INTRODUCTION: By definition petroleum is a generic name for hydrocarbons‚ including crude oil‚ natural gas liquids‚ natural gas and their products. Petroleum comes from the Latin petra meaning rock or stone & oleum meaning oil. Petroleum occurs in the earth in combination of any of the four states: gas‚ liquid‚ semisolid‚ and solid
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The Environmental Impact of Electronic Waste In today’s high paced modern world‚ technology is moving faster and faster and boosting the speed of our everyday lives. Every eight months there is a new model of some type of technological device reaching the market and the old is being discarded as it is unable to keep up with our fast paced society. Where have the millions of old‚ unwanted computers and other electronics gone? Many have suspected‚ that relatively few old PC’s are being recycled
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EXPERIMENT 2: BATCH DISTILLATION AT CONSTANT REFLUX OBJECTIVE: To operate a batch distillation unit at constant reflux. To examine the change in top and bottom composition over time in a batch distillation. PROCEDURES: 1. Perform the general start-up procedures (Section 4). Refer appendix 1. 2. Record initial volume and refractive index of the liquid mixture in the reboiler. 3. Set the heater power to 1.5kW. 4. Set reflux timer to 10 second for set 1 and 30 second for set 2. ( Note: Set 1:
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Oil Spill Group 3 Vera Lois A. Decano Kriceal Viz B. Saldon Mia Tagle Sam John F. Luison Kathe Unabia Chayya Margaret P. Golez Dominic M. Concillo Oil Spill Introduction In the recent years there have been occurrences of oil spills in several locations within our country. Knowing that these have adverse effects on our environment and the ecosystem as a whole‚ we’ve always been in search of ways to counter this major problem. The damages we receive from an oil spill
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Fats and Oils TCP FST4826 1 Vegetable oil • • • • • • • • • • TCP Coconut oil Corn oil Cottonseed oil Olive oil Palm kernel oil Palm oil Peanut oil Rapeseed oil Soybean oil Sunflower oil 1. Palm oil 2. Soybean oil 3. Rapeseed oil 4. Sunflower oil 5. Palm kernel oil 6. Cottonseed oil 7. Peanut oil 8. Coconut oil 9. Olive oil 10. Corn oil FST4826 2 WHAT IS A FAT? • Chemical units commonly called "triacylglycerols" • “Lipids" - triacylglycerols‚ mono- and diacylglycerols‚
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Introduction An essential oil is a concentrated hydrophobic liquid containing volatile aroma compounds from plants. Essential oils are also known as volatile oils‚ ethereal oils or aetherolea‚ or simply as the "oil of" the plant from which they were extracted‚ such as oil of clove. Volatile oils are the odorous and volatile products of various plant and animal species. As they have a tendency to undergo evaporation on being exposed to the air even at an ambient temperature‚ they are invariably termed
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Oil of oregano is a beneficial preparation. Oregano is an aromatic herb that has antiseptic‚ antibacterial‚ anti-fungal‚ anti-parasitic and antiviral properties. Its scientific name is Oreganum vulgare‚ and its name is Greek in origin‚ meaning "joy of mountains." Oil of oregano is used in cooking‚ as well as for massage. The essential oil of oregano can be extracted from the leaves through distillation‚ yielding the concentrated benefit of the bulk oregano herb for medicinal and therapeutic purposes
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phosphoric acid‚ and one boiling chip‚ were all added to a 10 mL round bottom flask that would be attached to the end of an assembled simple distillation set up. A sand bath was placed atop a hot plate‚ and the simple distillation mechanism was lowered into the sand bath with the bottom most piece (the 10 mL round bottom flask) submerged about half way. The distillation process was completed after a sufficient amount of liquid distillate had accumulated within the Hickman Still Head. Smaller volumes were
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Making oil conservation a way of life is in truth a very simple concept. The simplest way to do this is to cut down on your use of cars. Bike‚ walk‚ rollerblade‚ skateboard‚ or run to your destination. Not only does it conserve oil but it gives you exercise as well. Another way to make oil conservation a part of life is to choose materials other than plastic which uses crude oil for household items; you should also use cloth or paper bags instead of plastic bags when shopping. One very simple way
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