Fact Sheets

CRC CARE Fact Sheets are written for a general non-technical audience. They aim to help people understand Contamination Assessment and Remediation Technologies. The Fact Sheet series will slowly grow in number and provide a great resource for students and educational purposes. As the series grows and your understanding of the area develops, the Fact Sheets will become more complex and focused.

document CRC CARE Fact Sheet 1: Contamination
Contamination of soil, water and air by the toxic biological and chemical byproducts of human activities has been a feature of our environment ever since the industrial revolution and, in some cases, since civilization itself began. [pdf 193.7 kb]

document CRC CARE Fact Sheet 2: Risk Assessment
Risk assessment is the process of establishing whether a risk exists from a contaminated site or water body either to people or to the environment. It also looks at the extent of the risk, and so helps in determining what should be done about it. [pdf 188.7 kb]

document CRC CARE Fact Sheet 3: Remediation
Remediation means providing a remedy. Today it is generally used to mean the clean-up or making safe of a site or water body contaminated by toxic substances, whether they are natural or man-made. [pdf 183.9 kb]

document CRC CARE Fact Sheet 4: Bioremediation
Bioremediation is any process that uses microbes, fungi, plants or their enzymes to make a contaminated site safe for human use or environmentally healthy. [pdf 178.0 kb]

document CRC CARE Fact Sheet 5: Zero Waste
Most industries and municipalities produce waste or emissions of one kind or another. Mining and mineral processing, energy and petrochemicals, manufacturing, food processing, iron and steelmaking all generate waste streams after they have extracted the economically-valuable products from raw materials. [pdf 190.9 kb]