The assessment of emissions of nitrogen, phosphorus and organic matter (BOD) in domestic waste involved several steps, namely assessment (i) of the spatial distribution of annual domestic waste (LOCATION); (ii) of the pollution loads (QUANTITY); and (iii) of the level of treatment (REDUCTION). Location The Waterbase – Urban Waste Water Treatment Directive (UWWTD) database v610, […] More
Affiliations Packing and Industrial Materials Laboratory, Prime Polymer Co., Ltd., 3 Chigusa-Kaigan, Ichihara, Chiba, 299-0108, Japan Yasuhiko Otsuki & Hiroko Sasaki School of Materials Science, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, 1-1 Asahidai, Nomi, Ishikawa, 923-1292, Japan Yoko Fujii , Panitha Phulkerd & Masayuki Yamaguchi Corresponding authors Correspondence to Yasuhiko Otsuki or Masayuki Yamaguchi. More
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Since 1920, when Staudinger first reported his seminal paper describing evidence that macromolecules exist, many researchers have studied synthetic methodologies of polymers and developed their practical applications over the last 100 years. In particular, triggered by great discoveries in the 1950s, that is stereospecific polymerization of propylene by Natta and living anionic polymerization of styrene […] More
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CORRESPONDENCE 31 December 2019 Lele Shu & University of California at Davis, USA. Contact Search for this author in: Zexuan Xu Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, USA. Search for this author in: Your view that China’s re-vegetation of its deserts could exacerbate water shortages risks oversimplifying an incredibly complex eco-restoration problem (Nature 573, 474–475; […] More
COMMENT 31 December 2019 There is no room for squeamishness in the face of the world’s growing water shortage — three steps could vastly improve the image of reused water for drinking. Cecilia Tortajada & Cecilia Tortajada is a senior research fellow at the Institute of Water Policy, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, […] More
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