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Trademark's Grip Over Sustainability, Daniel R. Cahoy Jan 2023

Trademark's Grip Over Sustainability, Daniel R. Cahoy

University of Colorado Law Review

Entrepreneurs and larger firms are waking up to the fact that there is a viable market for recycled, repaired, and even upcycled goods. There is also an increasing desire on the consumer end for more sustainable products as well as measures to reduce landfill and other product disposal harms to the environment. Although some legal barriers to this new market are being actively debated, other barriers have taken a back seat and seem primed to surge only when increased business activity exposes the liability. This is the case with trademark law, which has the potential to substantially deter the small-firm …


Comprehensive Recycling Utilization Technology Of Foundation Engineering Slurry, Xie Hui, Ye Jingliang, Chen Juan, Xue Man, Hu Huicong, Yang Xianyu, Cai Jihua Dec 2022

Comprehensive Recycling Utilization Technology Of Foundation Engineering Slurry, Xie Hui, Ye Jingliang, Chen Juan, Xue Man, Hu Huicong, Yang Xianyu, Cai Jihua

Coal Geology & Exploration

Foundation engineering slurry in the fields of underground continuous walls, horizontal directional drilling, shield, and pipe jacking has the characteristics of large amount of consumption and relatively single pollutant. With the implementation of various national environmental protection laws and regulations, the comprehensive treatment of slurries is particularly important. In this paper, a set of comprehensive recycling utilization technology of foundation engineering slurry was proposed. The technology of sand removal plus recycling of purified slurry and drilling cuttings can be adopted to the circulating slurry, and the technology of calcium removing, pH reducing, flocculation separation, pressure filtration and recycling of wastewater …


Zero Waste, Spring/Summer 2017, Issue 36 Sep 2019

Zero Waste, Spring/Summer 2017, Issue 36

Sustain Magazine

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Student Perspective: Margaret Chase Smith Library 2011 Essay Contest:, Zoe Anderson, Ali Clift, Allaina Murphy Jan 2012

Student Perspective: Margaret Chase Smith Library 2011 Essay Contest:, Zoe Anderson, Ali Clift, Allaina Murphy

Maine Policy Review

Each year, the Margaret Chase Smith Library sponsors an essay contest for Maine high school seniors. The focus of the 2011 contest was environmen­tal protection. The essay prompt quoted a 1972 statement from Sen. Smith: “We must recognize that we’re not going to eliminate pollution overnight. It’s going to be a hard, long fight. It’s going to take a long time and a lot of sacrifice on the part of each one of us.” By happy coinci­dence, the essay contest topic fits perfectly with the subject matter of this special issue of Maine Policy Review on sustainability. We feature here …