"There are alternatives for linking one ocean to the other, but there are no alternatives for cleaning a lake after a disaster has happened.
"We need to consider a range of alternatives for cleaning the rocks, and one of those could be no project, just sit and wait for rain," said Kanani Brown, an analyst for the California Coastal Commission, one of the regulatory agencies.
They are seeking out safer, greener alternatives for cleaning because of their well-founded fears that the ingredients in common cleansers are contaminating their indoor environments.
Steinemann's study "strongly suggests that we need to find unscented alternatives for cleaning our homes, laundry, and ourselves," says Claudia Miller, an allergist and immunologist at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio.
Ultrasonic cleaners are an acceptable alternative method for cleaning gold jewelry.
The advances made in the search to find "green" replacements for traditional solvents are reviewed, with reference to solvent alternatives for cleaning, coatings, and chemical reaction and separation processes.
In recent decades research in the conservation and restoration field has provided sustainable alternatives to traditional procedures for cleaning or controlling the microbial colonization of works of art.
Visitors can search the database for cleaning alternatives by either the contaminant to be removed, the solvent to be replaced, the type of equipment to be used, or the material to be cleaned.
The most preferable design alternative can be obtained to provide effective decision support for cleaning up the contaminated site.
Atmospheric air plasma treatment is being investigated as an alternative to a conventional oxygen (O2) vacuum plasma process for cleaning ITO.
