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TEN YEARS LATER: THE PROGRESS AND FUTURE OF INTEGRATING SUSTAINABLE PRINCIPLES, PRACTICES, AND METRICS INTO REMEDIATION PROJECTS
Favara, P., D. Raymond, M. Ambrusch, A. Libera, G. Wolf, J.A. Simon, B. Maco, et al.
Remediation 29:5-30(2019)

The 2009 Sustainable Remediation Forum white paper "Integrating Sustainable Principles, Practices, and Metrics into Remediation Projects" is revisited to assess sustainable remediation progress over the last 10 years, primarily in the U.S. The current state of sustainable remediation includes published literature, current practices and resources, applications, room for improvement, international progress, the virtuous cycle that applying sustainable remediation creates, and the status of the objectives cited in the 2009 white paper. The paper explores how sustainable remediation may evolve over the next 10 years and focuses on the events and drivers that can be significant in the pace of further development. While the industry has made significant progress in developing the practice of sustainable remediation and has implemented it successfully into hundreds of projects, an opportunity exists to implement the tenets of sustainable remediation on many more projects and explore new frontiers to help improve the communication, integration, and derived benefits from implementing sustainable remediation into future remediation projects.



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