Pathways regulating nitrogen removal in constructed ditch wetlands: effects of different inflow ratios and artificial aeration

Environmental Science and Pollution Research - Constructed ditch wetland (CDW) is a combination of idle ditch and constructed wetland, which is typically used in rural areas to remove pollutants...     

Cultivation modes and deficit irrigation strategies to improve 13C carbon isotope,photosynthesis, and winter wheat productivity in semi-arid regions

Environmental Science and Pollution Research - Determining the effect of ridge-furrow cultivation mode on 13C carbon isotope discrimination, photosynthetic capacity, and leaf gas exchange...     

Quantification of the Exposure–Lag–Response Association Between Air Pollution and Respiratory Disease Morbidity in Chongqing City,China

Environmental Modeling & Assessment - The health effects of air pollution on respiratory disease morbidity and mortality commonly vary with air pollutants’ intensity and latency after...     

Response relationships between abrupt seasonal temperature changes/warming (cooling) hiatuses in China and their influencing factors

Environmental Science and Pollution Research - The mechanisms of abrupt seasonal temperature changes and warming (cooling) hiatuses remain unclear. Clarifying how they respond to various...     

Removal of gentian violet and rhodamine B using banyan aerial roots after modification and mechanism studies of differential adsorption behaviors

Environmental Science and Pollution Research - A novel adsorbent derived from banyan aerial roots was prepared via modification and employed to aqueous gentian violet (GV) and rhodamine B (RhB)...     

Multi-templates surface molecularly imprinted polymer for rapid separation and analysis of quinolones in water

Environmental Science and Pollution Research - Rapid separation and analysis of trace quinolones (fleroxacin (FLRX), enoxacin (EN), norfloxacin (NOR), ciprofloxacin (CIP), enrofloxacin (ENRO), and...     

Microbial lipid production from banana straw hydrolysate and ethanol stillage

Environmental Science and Pollution Research - In this study, the feasibility of banana straw (BS) hydrolysate as carbon source and reutilizing the pretreated liquor (PL) of BS in the...     

Action spectroscopy of light-induced hatching ofArtemia cysts (Branchiopoda: Crustacea)

The action spectrum for the hatching ofArtemia cysts and the results of illumination experiments with decapsulated cysts suggest that a haempigment may be involved in light-induced hatching. The screening role of haematin is proposed. Starting from the assumption that haematin and the photoreceptor are both haempigments, we can attribute a hatching delaying or photoreceptor protective function to haematin.This work is part of F.K.F.O. Project No. 2.0012.82     

Management of packaging waste in Poland--development agenda and accession to the EU.

In recent years the issue of the municipal waste in Poland has become increasingly topical, with a considerable rise in the waste generation, much of which can be attributed to a boom in product packaging (mainly plastic). The annual production of plastics packaging has been constantly increasing over the last 20 to 30 years, and now exceeds 3.7 million tons. Due to a lack of processing technologies and poorly developed selective segregation system, packaging waste is still treated as a part of the municipal solid waste (MSW) stream, most of which is landfilled. As a result of Poland's access to the European Union, previous legal regulations governing municipal waste management have been harmonized with those binding on the member countries. One of the main changes, the most revolutionary one, is to make entrepreneurs liable for environmental risks resulting from the introduction of packaging to the market, and for its recycling. In practice, all entrepreneurs are to ensure recovery, and recycling, of used packaging from products introduced to the market at the required level. In recent year, the required recycling levels were fulfilled for all types of materials but mainly by large institutions using grouped and transport packaging waste for that matter. Household packaging gathered in the selective segregation system at the municipalities was practically left alone. This paper is an attempt to describe the system and assess the first year of functioning of the new, revamped system of packaging waste management in Poland. Recommendations are made relating to those features that need to be included in packaging waste management systems in order to maximize their sustainability and harmonization with the EU legal system.