During beneficiation of coal at the coal mining area of Tula, Russia, huge volumes of coal wastes with considerable residual pyrite content are produced. These wastes that are usually disposed of without specific care in the environment are active sources of coal mine drainage generation which...

Objective of the work was to investigate correlations among hazardous medical waste generation rates and various hospital parameters in 2 departments and a clinic of a 40-bed Hellenic general hospital (Hospital of Ikaria). Medical waste was recorded at the bio-pathology lab, the pathology clinic and...