Proper disposal of waste solvents is usually considered more of an environmental issue than a safety issue. However, it is often both. Solvent is dispensed in one direction only. It never goes back ...

These industries tend to offload their spent solvents after a single use through toxic industrial waste collectors. According to the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), at least half ...

LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Technavio has announced the top seven leading vendors in their recent global solvent recycling market report until 2020. The report presents the vendor landscape with an ...

TotalEnergies SE and clean technology firm Clariter SA have developed what they describe as the world's first sustainable ultrapure solvent made from plastic waste. In a news release, officials with ...

On average, from 2011 to 2021, academic labs generated around 4,300 metric tons of hazardous waste each year. One of the largest lab-used solvents discarded is dichloromethane and more than half of ...

Multilayer plastic materials are ubiquitous in food and medical supply packaging, particularly since layering polymers can give those films specific properties, like heat resistance or oxygen and ...

Organic chemist Bruce Lipshutz had a bit of a rude awakening. It was around 2007, and the head of environmental health and safety (EH&S) at the University of California, Santa Barbara, sat Lipshutz ...

While area residents await the state’s decision on whether Lehigh Portland Cement Co. may burn waste carbon in its kilns, the company is applying for yet another permit. This one is for burning ...