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  2. Biomedical waste - Wikipedia

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    The Bio-medical Waste (Management and Handling) Rules, 1998 and further amendments were passed for the regulation of bio-medical waste management. On 28 March 2016 Biomedical Waste Management Rules (BMW 2016) [15] were also notified by Central Govt. Each state's Pollution Control Board or Pollution control Committee will be responsible for ...

  3. Environmental biotechnology - Wikipedia

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    Environmental biotechnology can simply be described as "the optimal use of nature, in the form of plants, animals, bacteria, fungi and algae, to produce renewable energy, food and nutrients in a synergistic integrated cycle of profit making processes where the waste of each process becomes the feedstock for another process". [3]

  4. Bioconversion - Wikipedia

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    Organizations pioneering this novel approach to waste management are EAWAG, [5] ESR International, [6] Prota Culture [7] and BIOCONVERSION [8] that created the e-CORS® system [9] to meet large scale organic waste management needs and environmental sustainability in both urban and livestock farming reality. This type of engineered system ...

  5. Bioremediation - Wikipedia

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    Bioremediation broadly refers to any process wherein a biological system (typically bacteria, microalgae, fungi in mycoremediation, and plants in phytoremediation), living or dead, is employed for removing environmental pollutants from air, water, soil, flue gasses, industrial effluents etc., in natural or artificial settings. [1]

  6. Bioreactor landfill - Wikipedia

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    Landfills are the primary method of waste disposal in many parts of the world, including United States and Canada.Bioreactor landfills are expected to reduce the amount of and costs associated with management of leachate, to increase the rate of production of methane (natural gas) for commercial purposes and reduce the amount of land required for land-fills.

  7. Biosafety - Wikipedia

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    Medical waste management was identified as an issue in the 1980s, with the Medical Waste Tracking Act of 1988 [30] becoming the new standard in biohazard waste disposal. Although the Federal Government, EPA & DOT provide some oversight of regulated medical waste storage, transportation, and disposal the majority of biohazard medical waste is ...

  8. Biotechnology - Wikipedia

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    Brown biotechnology is related to the management of arid lands and deserts. One application is the creation of enhanced seeds that resist extreme environmental conditions of arid regions, which is related to the innovation, creation of agriculture techniques and management of resources.

  9. Downstream processing - Wikipedia

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    Downstream processing refers to the recovery and the purification of biosynthetic products, particularly pharmaceuticals, from natural sources such as animal tissue, plant tissue or fermentation broth, including the recycling of salvageable components as well as the proper treatment and disposal of waste.