The gray water footprint is essential to determine the sustainability of the different segments, whether they are agricultural or even industrial. The textile industries have several stages that use natural resources, in ...

The eutrophication of reservoirs favors the emergence of cyanobacteria and cyanotoxins in their waters, which are commonly used to irrigate agricultural crops. This has generated concern, due to the potential for bioaccumulation ...

The mangrove is a coastal, intertropical ecosystem typical of the low areas of the rivers to the boundary of transition between land and sea. The trees are halophytes, diversifying between tree and shrub species, adapted ...

The study aimed to analyze the COVID-19 pandemic and its impacts on healthcare waste (HCW) from the perspective of nursing professionals at the Alcides Carneiro University Hospital of the Federal University of Campina ...

The water scarcity experienced in various parts of the planet demands the rapid development of new technologies aimed at preserving this resource. As a tool to combat waste, consumption measurement is an excellent tool, ...

The study was based on the monitoring of two water treatment plants, of different sizes and supplied by the reservoir Epitácio Pessoa - PB, in order to assess whether there is microbiological safety in what advocates the ...

Sustainability is a topic that has been growing in recent years. Since the 1970s, it has expanded rapidly due to the environmental impacts caused by economic growth, mass production, and constant use of natural resources. ...

The events of redelimitation, reclassification and extinction of protected areas, which also originate from acts of Public Power, and are known as PADDD, intensified at the end of the first decade of the 21st century. The ...

Obtaining monthly and annual erosivity indices for municipalities or watersheds, using mathematical models, is of great importance in calculating soil losses. Such indices can be safely used in order to increase the ...

Currently, 1.4 billion tons of solid waste are produced in the world per year. According to the UN 10 years from now it will be 2.2 billion tons. Waste management is expensive, around 20% to 50% of municipal budgets. In ...