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Expanded Polystyrene (EPS) and the Environment Introduction The impact on the environment of everyday materials is increasingly important if we are to reduce our carbon footprint and protect our natural heritage for future generations. Our aim, therefore, in this booklet is to provide you with factual, well-documented information about the environmental credentials of EPS. EPS (expanded polystyrene) is an excellent material for packaging and for construction as it is a light yet rigid foam with good thermal insulation and high impact resistance. This publication aims to provide balanced information based on the manufacture, use and recovery from waste of EPS in the packaging and construction sectors. We also aim to demonstrate to customers, government organisations, consumer associations and the public that, by choosing or using EPS, you can be confident it is safe, complies with all relevant technical and environmental standards and can easily be recycled at the end of its primary us...

The Wireless Sensor Networks are nowadays widely considered as a one of the most important technologies for the twenty-first century [1]. Over recent years, the WSN and their applications were under the focus of both academia and industry all over the world. Nowadays, the WSN are widely used in various applications areas, including but not limiting to: health care and medicine [2,3,4]; home or office automation [5,6]; industry [7,8]; road traffic control [9,10]; farming and forestry [11,12]; civil infrastructure monitoring [13,14]; disaster detection and alarm systems [15]. Each of these areas has specific environment and certain application requirements for the WSN. We are presenting the results and lessons learned during evaluating WSN in the real-life industrial environment and two industrial WSN applications development and deployment that have been done within the RealFusion project. 1. Introduction Wireless sensor networks (WSN) are gaining the ground in all sectors of l...