Environment

Environment includes all the surroundings in which life flows. Environmental protection in the twenty-first century is recognized as one of the eight Millennium Development Goals and one of the three pillars of sustainable development. The difference between environment and nature is that nature includes the set of natural, biological, and non-biological factors, while the environment is defined based on human interactions with nature.

Almost all environmental factors, including soil, water, and air, have been affected by human activities. The most important human impacts on soil include contamination and erosion. Soil contamination can result from increased soil salts due to agricultural machinery or direct pollution by individuals or factories.

The most significant effects of human activities on water include overconsumption, depletion of water resources, and pollution of surface and groundwater. Groundwater aquifers, rivers, and lakes are vital sources of freshwater that are directly exposed to pollution resulting from human activities.

Air pollution refers to the direct or indirect introduction of any element by humans that can have adverse effects on human health and the environment. Gases from combustion, suspended particles, and heavy metals such as arsenic, lead, zinc, copper, chromium, mercury, and cadmium, which enter the air from industrial activities, are among the most important air pollutants.

Razi Metallurgy Research Center, by establishing an environmental laboratory and receiving certification as an accredited laboratory from the Iran Environmental Protection Organization, provides specialized laboratory services in this field. Monitoring and measuring heavy metals such as mercury, arsenic, lead, and zinc, which result from factory activities and effluents, is among these services.

Additionally, measurement and analysis of elements harmful to human health, such as suspended particles and asbestos in the air, and evaluation of industrial products like automotive brake pads, are continuously carried out in the laboratories of Razi Metallurgy Research Center.