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Richard Fuller told: “We need public education and resources to get the word out to farmers of the dangers of lead, and to encourage people to get their kitchen equipment tested”

lancet Friday, August 7, 2020 12:49:00 AM CEST

Richard Fuller said: “We need to finish the work on paint in the same way we did for petrol”

lancet Friday, August 7, 2020 12:49:00 AM CEST

Richard Fuller said: “We need to make it impossible for the informal sector to compete with the clean recyclers” “If the formal sector can afford to pay more for used batteries than the backyard scrap merchants, and we have strong systems of enforcement and public education, then we can really start to reduce people's exposure to lead”

lancet Friday, August 7, 2020 12:49:00 AM CEST

Richard Fuller detto: “Significa raddoppiare il numero di persone con disabilità intellettiva”

lavocedinewyork Wednesday, August 5, 2020 12:24:00 AM CEST

Richard Fuller detto: “La buona notizia è che i siti contaminati da piombo potrebbero essere riparati e ripristinati”

lavocedinewyork Wednesday, August 5, 2020 12:24:00 AM CEST

Michelle Kalamandeen said: “There was very little recovery three to four years after a mine pit and tailings pond had been abandoned,” “The overburden site where the discarded topsoil was piled up had a similar rate of recovery to agriculture plots in South and Central America”

mongabay Tuesday, August 4, 2020 11:41:00 PM CEST

David Galbraith said: “Our study finds that the stripping of nutrients during the excavation process may be particularly important in restricting recovery. Other modes of deforestation are not associated with the stripping of topsoil in this way,”

mongabay Tuesday, August 4, 2020 11:41:00 PM CEST

Michelle Kalamandeen said: “We’re already seeing reports of increased mining activity. Based on the reports, it looks like it’s almost turning into something of a [gold mining] free-for-all,”

mongabay Tuesday, August 4, 2020 11:41:00 PM CEST

Michelle Kalamandeen concluded: “The fines are too low, and there is not enough monitoring or enforcement to make sure the land is restored. Until the costs of not restoring the land reflects the price of restoration, the same problems will occur in the future,”

mongabay Tuesday, August 4, 2020 11:41:00 PM CEST

Richard Fuller said: “The good news is that lead can be recycled safely without exposing workers, their children, and surrounding neighborhoods. Lead-contaminated sites can be remediated and restored,”

wired-gov Tuesday, August 4, 2020 12:04:00 PM CEST

Nicholas Rees added: “It is critical that we work together and share best practices on preventing lead exposure both within the UK and with other countries. We are not going to end child deaths globally without addressing environmental determinants of their health,”

wired-gov Tuesday, August 4, 2020 12:04:00 PM CEST

Henrietta Fore says: “Knowing how widespread lead pollution is and understanding the destruction it causes to individual lives and communities must inspire urgent action to protect children once and for all,”

kenyamoja Sunday, August 2, 2020 10:16:00 PM CEST

Richard Fuller says: “The return on the investment is enormous; improved health, increased productivity, higher IQs, less violence and brighter futures for millions of children across the planet,”

kenyamoja Sunday, August 2, 2020 10:16:00 PM CEST

Nicholas Rees dichiarato: “Si tratta di una cifra assolutamente scioccante”

rinnovabili Friday, July 31, 2020 10:58:00 AM CEST

Richard Fuller säger: "De goda nyheterna är att bly säkert kan återvinnas utan att utsätta arbetarna, deras barn och omkringliggande bostadsområden. Blyförorenade platser kan saneras och återställas"

sodermanlands_nyheter Friday, July 31, 2020 6:06:00 AM CEST

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