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    • Ecosystemic Assessment of Surface Water Quality in the Virilla River: Towards Sanitation Processes in Costa Rica 

      Mena-Rivera, Leonardo; Vásquez-Bolaños, Oscar; Gómez-Castro, Cinthya; Fonseca-Sánchez, Alicia; Rodríguez-Rodríguez, Abad; Sánchez-Gutiérrez, Rolando (Universidad Nacional (Costa Rica), 2018)
      Water quality information is essential supporting decision making in water management processes. The lack of information restricts, at some point, the implementation of adequate sanitation, which is still scarce in ...
    • Lead acid battery recycling in Costa Rica: A case study 

      Esquivel Hernández, Germain; Bolaños - Ulloa, P.; Navarro - Monge, M.; Alfaro Solís, Rosa; Sibaja Brenes, J.P.; Mora - Barrantes, J.C.; Valdés - González, J. (WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment, 2012)
      This work describes the production of secondary lead in a smelter located in Costa Rica. The only input of the plant is scrap automotive batteries. We describe the environmental management strategies used for waste ...