The Toxics Use Reduction Institute (TURI), Boston Public Health Commission (BPHC), and Vietnamese American Initiative for Development (Viet-AID) have worked with small business sectors to reduce their use of toxic chemicals. Three cases, described here, in dry cleaning, auto shops and floor finishing share common approaches for creating successful models of effective dissemination of toxics use reduction in small businesses. These include direct business support, peer-to-peer training and promotion of alternatives, and collaborations with stakeholders to achieve greener businesses. These results were achieved despite predictable barriers of lack of resources, suspicion of safer alternatives, and language and cultural barriers. 相似文献
This work introduces a spatially resolved quantitative model, based on conservation of mass and first order transfer kinetics,
for following the transport and redistribution of outdoor soil to, and within, the indoor environment by track-in on footwear.
Implementations of the DIRT model examined the influence of room size, rug area and location, shoe size, and mass transfer
coefficients for smooth and carpeted floor surfaces using the ratio of mass loading on carpeted to smooth floor surfaces as
a performance metric. Results showed that in the limit for large numbers of random steps the dual aspects of deposition to
and track-off from the carpets govern this ratio. Using recently obtained experimental measurements, historic transport and
distribution parameters, cleaning efficiencies for the different floor surfaces, and indoor dust deposition rates to provide
model boundary conditions, DIRT predicts realistic floor surface loadings. The spatio-temporal variability in model predictions
agrees with field observations and suggests that floor surface dust loadings are constantly in flux; steady state distributions
are hardly, if ever, achieved.
A contribution from ESF Center for the Urban Environment. 相似文献
As an environmental friendly measure for surface runoff reduction, low impact development (LID) has been applied successfully in urban areas. However, due to high price of land and additional expense for LID construction in highly urbanized areas, the developers of real estate would not like to proceed LID exploitation. Floor area ratio (FAR) refers to “the ratio of a building’s total floor area to the size of the piece of land upon which it is built.” Increasing FAR indicates that the developers can construct higher buildings and earn more money. By means of awarding FAR, the developers may be willing to practice LID construction. In this study, a new residential district is selected as a case study to analyze the tradeoff between the runoff reduction goal achieving by LID practices and the incentive of awarding FAR to promote LID construction. The System for Urban Stormwater Treatment and Analysis IntegratioN (SUSTAIN) model is applied to simulate the runoff reduction under various LID designs and then derive the Pareto-optimal solutions to achieve urban runoff reduction goals based on cost efficiency. The results indicates that the maximum surface runoff reduction is 20.5%. Under the extremity scenarios, the government has options to award FAR of 0.028, 0.038 and 0.047 and the net benefits developers gain are 0 CNY, one million CNYand two million CNY, respectively. The results provide a LID construction guideline related to awarding FAR, which supports incentive policy making for promoting LID practices in the highly urbanized areas.
