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  2. Polychlorinated biphenyl - Wikipedia

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    The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) rendered PCBs as definite carcinogens in humans. According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), PCBs cause cancer in animals and are probable human carcinogens. [4] Moreover, because of their use as a coolant in electric transformers, PCBs still persist in built environments ...

  3. Kalamazoo Superfund Site - Wikipedia

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    Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCB) constitute a wide array of now-banned organic chemicals with a variety of industrial applications. At the Kalamazoo River site, most PCBs are a result of the recycling of carbonless copy paper during the 1970s, the waste products from which were dumped into the river.

  4. Printed circuit board - Wikipedia

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    A printed circuit board (PCB), also called printed wiring board (PWB), is a laminated sandwich structure of conductive and insulating layers, each with a pattern of traces, planes and other features (similar to wires on a flat surface) etched from one or more sheet layers of copper laminated onto or between sheet layers of a non-conductive ...

  5. Bioremediation of polychlorinated biphenyls - Wikipedia

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    Bioremediation of PCBs is the use of microorganisms to degrade PCBs from contaminated sites, relying on multiple microorganisms' co-metabolism. Anaerobic microorganisms dechlorinate PCBs first, and other microorganisms that are capable of doing BH pathway can break down the dechlorinated PCBs to usable intermediates like acyl-CoA or carbon ...

  6. Emmell's Septic Landfill Superfund site - Wikipedia

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    Emmell's Septic Landfill (ESL) is a landfill in Galloway Township, New Jersey and takes up about 38 acres of space. The landfill was in operation from 1967 until 1979. ESL disposed of liquid and solid waste including many chemicals such as volatile organic compounds (VOCs), Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCBs), Trichloroethene and Vinyl chloride which all had their own effect on the environment ...

  7. Pollution of the Hudson River - Wikipedia

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    The PCBs came from the company's two capacitor manufacturing plants at Hudson Falls and Fort Edward, New York. [1] The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) banned the manufacture of PCBs in 1979. [9] The bulk of the PCBs in the river were manufactured by Monsanto Co. under the brand names Aroclor 1242 and Aroclor 1016. [10]

  8. DO-254 - Wikipedia

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    The hardware design and hardware verification need to be done independently. The hardware designer works to ensure the design of the hardware will meet the defined requirements. Meanwhile, the verification engineer will generate a verification plan which will allow for testing the hardware to verify that it meets all of its derived requirements.

  9. List of waste management acronyms - Wikipedia

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    DECLG Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (Ireland) DEFRA Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs; DGXI Directorate General of the European Commission responsible for the Environment; DLGE Department of Local Government and the Environment (Isle of Man) DMR Dry Mixed Recyclables; DoC Duty of Care