Pharmaceuticals and Personal Care Products in the Environment and at Home: Proper Medicine Disposal

The video is summarizes how pharmaceuticals and personal care products get into the environment, their effects on the environment, and how proper medicine disposal and help prevent these issues. These are the slides from the videoOpe

Food & Beverage Manufacturing News

Monthly newsletter of original and curated content related to sustainability issues in the food and beverage manufacturing sector. Folded into Technical Assistance Program (TAP) News in March 2021.U.S. EPA Pollution Prevention GrantOpe

Toward Sustainable Technology

This paper offers suggestions for climate change policies advancing technological changes necessary for sustainable development. It first explains why relentless pursuit of cost effectiveness through broad environmental benefit trading does not maximize long term technological advancement and explores options for narrowing trading\u27s design. It then explores two alternatives to Kyoto style trading to show how a goal of creating a positive long term economic dynami

Baseline Waste Stream Characterization Study

Since 2010, the University has taken several major steps toward achieving zero waste. In 2013, the University engaged the Illinois Sustainable Technology Center to conduct a campus-wide waste characterization study to better understand priorities and opportunities for waste reduction. The Illinois Sustainable Technology Center (ISTC), a unit of the Prairie Research Institute at the University of Illinois, created a methodology for waste stream characterization and evaluation that provides building-level performance measures and achievable recommendations for improvement. This report presents user survey results and recommendations for improvements based on waste characterization studies conducted at the Alice Campbell Alumni Center, Henry Administration Building, Swanlund Administration Building, and Illini Union Bookstore.Ope

Evaluation of Soluble Oil vs. Semi Synthetic Metal Working Fluids at Toolamation Inc.

Toolamation Inc. collaborated with technical assistance specialists from the Illinois Sustainable Technology Center (ISTC) to evaluate the metal working fluid (MWF) oil removal system and soluble-oil vs. semi-synthetic MWFs.published or submitted for publicationnot peer reviewe

Sustainable Technology and Elderly Life

The coming years will see an exponential increase in the proportion of elderly people in our society. This accelerated growth brings with it major challenges in relation to the sustainability of the system. There are different aspects where these changes will have a special incidence: health systems and their monitoring; the development of a framework in which the elderly can develop their daily lives satisfactorily; and in the design of intelligent cities adapted to the future sociodemographic profile. The discussion of the challenges faced, together with the current technological evolution, can show possible ways of meeting the challenges. There are different aspects where these changes will have a special incidence: health systems and their monitoring; the development of a framework in which the elderly can develop their daily lives satisfactorily; and in the design of intelligent cities adapted to the future sociodemographic profile. This special issue discusses various ways in which sustainable technologies can be applied to improve the lives of the elderly. Six articles on the subject are featured in this volume. From a systematic review of the literature to the development of gamification and health improvement projects. The articles present suggestive proposals for the improvement of the lives of the elderly. The volume is a resource of interest for the scientific community, since it shows different research gaps in the current state of the art. But it is also a document that can help social policy makers and people working in this domain to planning successful projects

Sustainable technology - sustainability of what?

Why is it that we have started to question the sustainability of consumption, invention and innovation, economy, nation-states, whole systems and even the globe, in short of almost everything? What are the new paradigms, what new approaches have been proposed? And: is it "only" the question to develop new technologies? Lectures given by Peter H. Mettler in Turku School of Economics and Business Administration, Finland Futures Research Centre on 13 March 1997 and in Finnish Ministry of the Environment, Helsinki on 14 March 1997

Affordable, sustainable technology - water supply

This paper examines three examples of affordable sustainable technology from the Cotswold area of England

A Decision Making System for Selecting Sustainable Technologies for Retail Buildings

CIB Publication 382: Selected papers presented at the CIB World Building Congres Construction and Society, Brisbane 5-9 May 2013 Papers from the Designated Session TG66 - Energy and the Built EnvironmentThe implementation of sustainable technologies can improve the energy and carbon efficiency of existing retail buildings. However, the selection of an appropriate sustainable technology is a complex task due to the large number of technological alternatives and decision criteria that need to be considered. Also, there exist series of uncertainties that are associated with the use of sustainable technologies, but have to be evaluated to achieve realistic and transparent results. The selection of sustainable technology is therefore most challenging. An earlier study was conducted with UK experienced practitioners including clients/developers, engineers, contractors and suppliers to identify the drivers and barriers for the use of sustainable technologies in UK retail construction. One major barrier identified from the study was the lack of a decision making tool, highlighted by both construction professionals and stakeholders in the retail industry. The large number of alternatives and potential solutions require a decision support method to be implemented. Information data on the economic variables, energy performance and impact on the environment of these systems is presently affected by vagueness and lack of knowledge. To deal with this high level of complexity and uncertainty an evaluation support approach is needed. This paper aims to develop a decision making framework to assist both retailers and construction professionals to define and evaluate the selection of sustainable technological options for delivering retail buildings. The research was carried out through a combination of a critical literature review and a survey-based study using expert opinions of retailers and contractors. The developed framework of decision criteria should provide a sustainable technology model to assist both construction professionals and stakeholders in the retail industry to systematically and effectively select the most appropriate technology. This approach should make the decision progression more transparent and facilitate sustainable development of retail buildings in achieving the carbon targets set by the UK and other governments