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Chemicals Management Toolkit
This is a collection of chemicals management practices and processes to ensure safe and sustainable products throughout the supply chain. Source: The Outdoor Industry Association (OIA), a membership-driven trade organization for the outdoor industry. SOURCE: Outdoor Industry Association (OIA)
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CEO Water Mandate
This is a website for an Initiative of the United Nations Global Compact that mobilizes business leaders on water, sanitation, and the Sustainable Development Goals. The website provides resources and encourages organizations to drive sustainability and security with water stewardship by signing a commitment. This website has been favored by members of our internal task […]
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Better Plants
This is a website for an Initiative of the US Department of Energy: Better Buildings. Better Buildings is designed to improve the lives of the American people by driving leadership in energy innovation. Through Better Buildings, DOE partners with leaders in the public and private sectors to make the nation’s homes, commercial buildings, and industrial […]
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ASTM International
This is a website for ASTM (American Society for Testing Materials), an international standards organization that develops and publishes voluntary consensus technical standards for a wide range of materials, products, systems, and services. They also provide training and e-learning to show how to test methods in action.
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Aqueduct
This is a website provides maps that can be used to identify and evaluate water risks around the world. SOURCE: World Resources Institute
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Agreement on Characteristics of Wastewater Discharged to a Receiving Body
This is a document in Spanish that outlines the terms of the 2009 Salvadorian agreement regarding wastewater. SOURCE: The Food Food & Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
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A Selection of Training Programs for Water and Wastewater Operators
This is a compilation of fact sheets from 2012 describing training programs, internships and mentoring programs that help new operators enter the water and wastewater industries, as well as enhance the skills and knowledge of experienced operators. SOURCE: EPA
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A Review of Environmental Policy and Legislation in Bangladesh
This is a paper written in 2006 that provides a brief synopsis of the content and applicability of the environmental policies and legislation dealing with industrial pollution of water, soil, and air in Bangladesh.
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A Critical review on textile waste water treatments: Possible approaches
This is an academic journal article from 2016 that presents different treatment methods to treat textile wastewater along with the cost per unit volume of treated water. Treatment methods discussed in this paper involve oxidation methods (cavitation, photocatalytic oxidation, ozone, H2O2, fentons process), physical methods (adsorption and filtration), biological methods (fungi, algae, bacteria, microbial fuel […]
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2016 Wastewater Guidelines
This is a document created by the ZDHC in 2019 that sets a single, unified expectation across the textile and footwear industries for wastewater discharge quality. ZDHC (Zero Discharge of Hazardous Chemicals) is a group of apparel and footwear brands and retailers working together to lead the industry towards zero discharge of hazardous chemicals. SOURCE: […]