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Table of Contents (6 articles)
TINY BITS OF PLASTIC FOUND IN TABLE SALT IN CHINA
Tags: China, public, discovery, environmental, plastics, sodium_chloride
PHOTOS: HAZMAT TEAM RUNS DRILL AT UMASS CHEMISTRY LAB
Tags: us_MA, laboratory, discovery, environmental, sodium_bicarbonate
5 WORKERS TREATED FOR SMALL MERCURY SPILL IN SUAMICO
Tags: us_WI, public, release, response, mercury, water_treatment
TOXIC CHEMICAL FOUND IN WELLS FOR 3 CHARLTON HOMES NEAR LANDFILL
Tags: us_MA, industrial, discovery, environmental, toxics, waste
TRUCK CHEMICAL SPILL CLOSES ALEXANDRA AVENUE IN SOUTH YARRA
Tags: Australia, transportation, release, response, phosphoric_acid
WHITE HOUSE ISSUES REPORT ON IMPROVING BIOSAFETY AT FEDERAL LABS
Tags: us_MD, laboratory, discovery, environmental
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TINY BITS OF PLASTIC FOUND IN TABLE SALT IN CHINA
Tags: China, public, discovery, environmental, plastics, sodium_chloride
Diners in China who season their meals with sea salt may be unwittingly consuming microscopic pieces of plastic pollution.
When researchers analyzed fifteen brands of common table salt bought at supermarkets across China, they found among the grains of seasoning micro-sized particles of the common water bottle plastic polyethylene terephthalate, as well as polyethylene, cellophane, and a wide variety of other plastics (Env. Sci.& Tech. 2015, DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.5b03163).
The highest level of plastic contamination was found in salt sourced from the ocean: The researchers measured more than 1,200 particles of plastic per lb of sea salt. The team, led by Huahong Shi of East China Normal University also found tiny particles of plastic in salt sourced from briny lakes, briny wells, and salt mines, although at lower levels‰??between 15 and 800 particles/ lb.
Shi and colleagues argue that plastic contamination originates from the vast amount of plastic pollution floating around marine environments where sea salt is sourced. For instance, bits of plastics might abrade from larger objects, such as water bottles, dumped in the water or they might come from cosmetic products, such as face washes, that use plastic microbeads as exfoliants. The researchers add that other points of entry for plastic contamination are also possible, including during salt processing, drying, and packaging.
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PHOTOS: HAZMAT TEAM RUNS DRILL AT UMASS CHEMISTRY LAB
Tags: us_MA, laboratory, discovery, environmental, sodium_bicarbonate
Chicopee firefighter Daniel McQuade, right, observes fellow members of the Massachusetts Department of Fire Services District 4 Hazmat Team during a drill Wednesday at the University of Massachusetts Conte Polymer Research Center in Amherst. Here, Chris Bascomb, left, and Dave Martell, both Amherst firefighters, use sodium bicarbonate to mitigate a simulated accidental chemical reaction. Hazardous materials technicians in District 4, which comprises Franklin, Hampshire and Hampden counties, have training exercises once a month. Purchase photo reprints åÈ
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5 WORKERS TREATED FOR SMALL MERCURY SPILL IN SUAMICO
Tags: us_WI, public, release, response, mercury, water_treatment
Five people were decontaminated Thursday after a mercury spill in Suamico.
The spill happened just before noon at an old water treatment facility no longer in use at the end of Mink Road.
Workers were inside the building for cleaning when a small, broken vial of mercury hit the floor and splashed about half of an ounce onto the clothes of the workers.
‰??They were wearing gloves, they had normal work clothes on, there was no skin exposure,‰?? village utilities director Dan Drewery said.
Fire officials and Public Works said although it was a very small amount of mercury ‰?? less than you would find in a thermometer ‰?? the village wanted to take all precautions and called in a hazardous materials team.
‰??Rather than trying to deal with this ourselves, we brought the fire department, sheriff‰??s department, Hazmat, and had it looked at,‰?? Drewery said.
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TOXIC CHEMICAL FOUND IN WELLS FOR 3 CHARLTON HOMES NEAR LANDFILL
Tags: us_MA, industrial, discovery, environmental, toxics, waste
CHARLTON ‰?? Three homes using private wells on H. Foote Road had water sample test results that were in excess of the state standard for 1,4-dioxane, a toxic chemical.
The homes are within a half-mile of the Casella Waste Systems-operated landfill in Southbridge, and the results now call for the waste management company to conduct sampling on wells at homes in a wider radius, a state Department of Environmental Protection spokesman said this week.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency classifies 1,4-dioxane as a probable human carcinogen. The state standard for groundwater is 0.3 micrograms per liter, essentially 3 parts per billion.
DEP spokesman Edmund J. Coletta Jr. said that of the three homes where the chemical was detected above that level, one is a repeat from last year, bringing the total to four homes.
Casella is providing those households with bottled water, Mr. Coletta said, and the DEP is requiring that Casella conduct additional sampling on homes ‰??within 500 feet of these particular wells that were tested and found to be contaminated.‰??
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TRUCK CHEMICAL SPILL CLOSES ALEXANDRA AVENUE IN SOUTH YARRA
Tags: Australia, transportation, release, response, phosphoric_acid
A truck carrying chemicals has become wedged under a South Yarra bridge causing them to spill onto the road.
The truck, carrying drums containing what is believed to be phosphoric acid, became stuck under the Cremorne Railway Bridge on Alexandra Avenue, between Punt Road and Church Street just after 9pm.
Firefighters are at the scene to mop up the mess, while police have closed the road between the two intersections.
"There are some chemicals leaking from the drums," a MFB spokesman said.
He said the driver had escaped uninjured.
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WHITE HOUSE ISSUES REPORT ON IMPROVING BIOSAFETY AT FEDERAL LABS
Tags: us_MD, laboratory, discovery, environmental
CHICAGO ‰?? The White House issued a 187-page report on Thursday designed to improve biosafety following a series of safety breaches at federal laboratories charged with handling dangerous pathogens such as anthrax, bird flu and smallpox.
The report follows a sweeping review of the government's biosafety and biosecurity practices, and includes specific recommendations and deadlines for laboratories to improve their practices.
It was addressed to top officials at 16 federal agencies, including the U.S. Department of Defense, which this past July was criticized for repeated mishandling of anthrax at a U.S. Army laboratory in Utah.
In 2014, there were similar breaches by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention involving anthrax and bird flu, and the discovery of vials of smallpox from the 1950s in a storage closet in an unsecured Food and Drug Administration lab on the National Institutes of Health's campus in Bethesda, Maryland.
Recommendations in the report, issued by Lisa Monaco, assistant to the president for homeland security and counterterrorism, and John Holdren, assistant to the president for science and technology, stressed the need for transparency, swift reporting of incidents, accountability to the public and strong inventory control measures.
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