- Industry: NGO
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The United Nations Organization (UNO), or simply United Nations (UN), is an international organization whose stated aims are facilitating cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, social progress, human rights, and the achieving of world peace.
Listing, by source, of the amounts of pollutants actually or potentially discharged. Such an inventory is used to establish and put forth emission standards.
Industry:Environment
Reduction of nitrates and nitrites from the soil by denitrifying bacteria that survive under anaerobic conditions in soils and the lower layer of manure pits.
Industry:Environment
System incorporating two water supplies, one for flushing and another for drinking and cooking. It is often used in countries where drinking water is scarce.
Industry:Environment
Use of living organisms to test the suitability of effluents for discharge into receiving waters and the quality of such waters downstream from the discharge.
Industry:Environment
Any substance that poses a threat to human health and the environment. Hazardous substances are toxic, corrosive, ignitable, explosive or chemically reactive.
Industry:Environment
Equipment used for burning fuel or any combustible material. Examples are incinerators, boilers, different types of furnaces, fly-ash collectors and so forth.
Industry:Environment
Expressed in p.p.m./p.p.b./p.p.t., these are measures of the concentrations of pollutants in air, water, soil, human tissue, food or other products.
Industry:Environment
Activity to reduce the emission of noise or vibrations from a given source, or to protect persons and built-up structures from exposure to noise and vibrations.
Industry:Environment
Descriptions of the origin and destination of raw materials and intermediate products in different economic transformation processes leading to a final product.
Industry:Environment
Hazards of exposure to pollution, noise and vibrations in the working environment. Exposure limits are promoted by the International Labour Organization (ILO).
Industry:Environment
