In order to obtain an ideal and integrated management of laboratory chemical waste and to improve its environmental reality, the Environmental Research Center held a workshop entitled (Chemical Waste Management in the Laboratory Environment) delivered by Assistant Professor Dr. Azhar Mahmoud Halim, Head of the Environmental Technologies Department at the Center. The workshop addressed several topics, the most important of which is the definition of hazardous chemical waste. And their classification and integrated management, as safety and security considerations in the purchase, transport, handling and disposal of chemical waste must be among the priorities when preparing an integrated management system for these materials due to their high toxicity, great effectiveness, or ability to flammable. Therefore, a set of strict rules must be established to deal with them. Within a laboratory environment.

As part of the activities of the cultural season of the Environmental Research Center, assistant lecturer Ola Hamid Mahmoud gave a lecture entitled (The effect of irrigation patterns on the properties of clay minerals in rice farm soils in the Middle Euphrates governorates), where she shed light on silicate clay minerals from a scientific and applied point of view, the most important component of the soil. The other, because it is the most effective component after organic matter, and the chemical, physical and fertility characteristics of the soil are often determined by the type and quantity of clay minerals in the soil.