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Just a spoonful of … engineered silica…
Author: Rich
Website: http://www.earthpm.com/2010/01/just-a-spoonful-of-engineered…
Most of us will be familiar with the line from Mary Poppins that begins the same way as this posting. And if not, there are some Project Management lessons available from the very simple message from Mary. You can get THAT spoonful of sugar right here.
But we’re not talking sugar. And it’s not a lesson about how you can incentivize your project team with sweets. That may come later…but this posting is about an aspect of Green PM not often covered: toxicity. In our upcoming book, we’ll be dealing with the aspect of toxicity as we cover the life cycle effects of certain processes and the creation of hypoxia in the norther Gulf of Mexico. In this article we talk about a project to develop new materials specially engineered to “catch” and absorb mercury.
As featured in the December issue of Popular Science magazine, a product from Steward Advanced Materials is capable of cleaning mercury from a contaminated area 100 times better than any other method and it does so at…
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