| Cleaning Up the Environment: Hazardous Waste Technology Contributor(s): Maczulak, Anne E. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0816071985 ISBN-13: 9780816071982 Publisher: Facts on File OUR PRICE: $39.60 Product Type: Hardcover Published: August 2009 Annotation: The industrial might of the United States grew in the 1930s and flourished during the two world wars. As businesses large and small supplied the needs of the country, they discarded their wastes in landfills, pits, and waterways. It was an easy and inexpensive way to get rid of wastes before more were made. Waste dumping had not yet been linked with illnesses so few people worried about it, especially if the materials were hidden under the ground or in the ocean. Within 20 years of the end of WWII, those wastes began to cause serious health problems. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Technology & Engineering | Environmental - General |
| Dewey: 628.5 |
| LCCN: 2008042367 |
| Series: Green Technology |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 7.4" W x 9.3" (1.55 lbs) 226 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Featuring full-color photographs and line illustrations, this book explores methods in pollution cleanup. It takes readers through the step-by-step process of finding, testing, and cleaning up hazardous waste sites, beginning with contamination assessment and ending with a cleaned and restored body of land or water. |