Clean Collection (#63)

Running water
Running tap water draining down a sink plughole. Tap water in houses is used for drinking, cooking and cleaning. Dirty water is disposed of down a plughole

Clean utensils in a dishwasher
Clean utensils. Crockery and cutlery stacked in a dishwasher after being washed

Sponge and soap bubbles

Collecting evidence. Forensic officer using a suction tube device to collect evidence from the seat of a car. This tool is used to collect fibres and hairs for later laboratory analysis

Clean laundry. Pile of clean towels and a sock

Multi-blade razor, SEM
Multi-blade razor. Coloured scanning electron micrograph (SEM) of blades from a multi-blade safety razor. Guard wires (red) over the blades prevent deep cuts

Open dishwasher

Brushing teeth
MODEL RELEASED. Brushing teeth. 8-year-old girl brushing her teeth. Regular brushing with a toothbrush removes plaque and food particles from the teeth

Mini weather station. This solar-powered outdoors climate monitor detects changes in temperature, rainfall, wind and air pressure

Biopile hydrocarbon pollution clean-up
Biopile. This is a facilities that economically clean up soils that have been contaminated with hydrocarbons such as gasoline, diesel and jet fuels

Cholera epidemic, 19th century
Cholera epidemic. Drinking water supplies being distributed during a cholera epidemic in Hamburg, Germany. Such epidemics were spread by infected water supplies

Gardener holding freshly picked radishes
Gardener holding freshly picked organic radishes (Raphanus sativus Long White Icicle )

Llyn Stwlan reservoir, UK, aerial image. This reservoir, near Ffestiniog in the Snowdonia region of North Wales, is used for hydroelectric power

Handwashing areas missed, artwork
Artwork of two hands showing the handwashing areas most frequently missed. This is particularly important in hospital hygiene

Bio-gas production
Israel, Emek Hefer (Hefer valley), Agricultural sludge and waste treatment facility. Cattle waste from dairy farms is brought to this facility. Bio-gas compost are produced in an anaerobic process

Electricity pylons at hydroelectric dam
Hydroelectric power. Electricity pylons at the Krasoyarsk Hydropower Plant. The red objects are the upper bearings of the turbines that are sunk into the floor below

Turbine hall of hydroelectric dam
Hydroelectric power. View of the turbine hall of the Krasoyarsk Hydropower Plant. The red objects are the upper bearings of the turbines that are sunk into the floor below

Controls of a metro train in Russia
Train controls. The cab of a metro train at its depot. This cab has been retrofitted with modern controls. This makes the train safer and more comfortable to operate

Nit comb
Combing a young girls hair with a nit comb

Solar power satellite, artwork
Solar power satellite. Artwork of a future solar power satellite in geostationary Earth orbit. The Moon is seen above the Earth at top

Electric vehicle recharging point. Photographed in a multi-storey car park in Kingston, Surrey, UK

Motors of a Soyuz rocket
Soyuz rocket engines. View of the exhaust nozzles from the engines of the first and second stages of a Russian Soyuz rocket launcher

Maize biofuel, conceptual image
MODEL RELEASED. Maize biofuel, conceptual image. Hand holding a fuel pump nozzle in front of a field of maize (Zea mays). Also known as corn

Oil being poured. This is pure refined light oil being poured onto precision machine parts. Oil is used in machines with moving parts as lubrication to help the parts move smoothly

Machine oil on metal
Drops of fine machine oil on Zinc plating

Oil drop under axle. Drop of clean lubricating machine oil on the underside of a machine axle. This is a rod around which a wheel turns

Filtration pumping house
Pumping house. View of water pumps at a filtration unit. This filters water in a canal feeding a municipal water supply. Photographed in Novosibirsk, Russia

Assembling equipment in a power station
Electricity generation. Workers assembling part of a turbine generator at a power station. Photographed at Kaliningrad, Russia

Waste cooking oil buses
Buses that run on recycled waste cooking oil, Brighton. The waste cooking oil is collected from restaurants in Brighton. [The Big Lemon bus company runs a service between Brighton town centre

Turbine hall at a power station
Electricity generation. View across the turbine hall of a power station. The turbine hall is where high pressure steam from the boilers is fed into turbines that are connected to generators

Hospital corridor. Corridors and other access routes in hospitals are kept clean as part of infection control measures

Nuclear submarine maintenance
Nuclear-powered submarine under preventive repairs

Disinfecting a house, historical artwork
Disinfecting a house. 1734 artwork by Rene Antoine Ferchault de Reaumur depicting people in the 18th Century disinfecting a house to prevent infection

Solar power plant at sunrise. Parabolic mirrors at a solar power plant. These mirrors work by tracking the Sun across the sky and focusing its rays onto tubes that contain synthetic oil

Solar power plant, Nevada, USA
Solar power plant. Rows of photovoltaic arrays at the Nellis Solar Power Plant, Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada, USA. This 14 megawatt energy system generates in excess of 25 million kilowatt-hours of

Concentrating solar power plant. Heliostat (mirrors with sun-tracking motion) at a concentrating solar power (CSP) plant. CSP plants use heliostats to reflect sunlight

Cow licking her calf
Cow (Bos taurus) licking her newborn calf. Female mammals instinctively lick their newborn babies. They do this to clean them but also to stimulate them to start breathing for themselves

Galvanising metal with zinc inside a finishing plant at the Magnitogorsk iron and steel works. Galvanising extends the life of a finished metal by protecting it against corrosion

Liver, artwork. The liver is the largest gland in the human body and the largest internal organ. It plays a vital role in metabolism, storing nutrients in forms such as glycogen

Australasian gannet preening
Australasian gannet (Morus serrator) preening. These large seabirds nest in large colonies on coastal islands. Photographed in New Zealand

Medical dressing

Relaxation, conceptual image. Computer artwork of a smiling rubber duck on background patterns representing hot water or a bath

Hydrogen-powered bus. This bus is powered by a fuel cell that runs on hydrogen gas. Inside the proton exchange membrane (PEM) fuel cell, hydrogen is combined with air, without combustion

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