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Proper Disposal of Unwanted Drugs Getting Easier

    Handy, secure dropboxes at Champaign, Urbana and U of I police stations make disposing of unwanted drugs easy.   Saturday April 30 is National Prescription Take-Back Day in the U.S.A. The Drug...

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Illinois Teachers Prepare for Lessons on Impact of Drugs in Environment

Proper disposal of unwanted prescription drugs and other common chemicals is important because of their ability to alter living things when introduced into lakes and streams. School teachers from...

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Drugs vs. Sharps Disposal: A safety issue

Drugs Many people are now aware that they shouldn’t flush unwanted drugs down the toilet because those chemicals end up in waterways and pollute the environment. So what is the correct way to dispose...

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Academic/Government Partners Work Toward the Next Level in Home Water Filtration

ISTC NEWS Nanoparticle Membrane Technology Investigated for Commercial Viability   Illustration of free-standing gold membrane with nanoparticles 6 nanometers in diameter and openings of 2 micrometers....

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Walgreens Creates New Medicine Take-Back Program

Walgreens has started a medicine take back program at select Walgreens in Illinois.  If all goes well, they will be expanding the program to other states later this year. A full list of take-back...

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Sustainability Seminar Series Fall 2016: Contaminants in the Environment

The ISTC Sustainability Seminar Series continues on Thursdays this fall with the theme “Contaminants in the Environment.” The schedule of seminar speakers is below. To be added to the seminar and...

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Emerging Contaminants in Our Aquatic Environments

Americans landfilled 136 million tons of material in 2014. Food, plastics, and in fact, most of what was landfilled could have been recycled or composted. Of particular concern is the more than four...

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Upcoming Environmental Conference

Rising concerns among environmental scientists over a multitude of contaminants found in water and aquatic life and their impact on human health have prompted ISTC to partner with the Illinois-Indiana...

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Air, Water, Soil: Prairie Research Institute Researchers Host Chinese Peers

  SoyFace studies methods to enhance agricultural yields today and in the face of changing climatic conditions. Scientists from seven Chinese universities visited the University of Illinois July 11-13...

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The long road of antiseptic chemical concerns leads to a new ban in health care

WRITTEN BY: Katherine Gardiner, ISTC staff   ISTC will host the Emerging Contaminants in the Aquatic Environment Conference at the U of I on June 5-6. A ban on the use of 24 antiseptic ingredients,...

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