To the author's knowledge,no specific standard methods are
available for biological characterization of the ecological
compatibility of materials made from industrial waste.
In the first place this assessment could be helpful indetermining the
possible negative impacts of the sematerials on the environment and secondly the seassessment scould be helpful in creasing the social accept an ceofwastecontainingproducts.Inthe
present investigation,amethodbasedoncounteractionof
living organismtoenvironmentalchangeswasintroducedto
characterisethebiologicalcompatibilityofaseriesofnovel
glass–ceramicsmadefromLatvianwaste.