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PAS 402 certification is Scottish standout for Perthshire waste management firm

Envirotec Magazine

Perthshire waste management specialist Binn Group has successfully secured PAS 402 certification, and as the firm’s announcement adds, this makes it the only Scottish company to currently hold the quality standard for resource management sector operators. Binn Group is uniquely established as the pathfinder for the scheme in Scotland.

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New Report Calls Out Chemical Recycling as a ‘False Solution’ to the Plastics Crisis

DeSmogBlog

The report , released today by Beyond Plastics and the International Pollutants Elimination Network (IPEN), exposes the failures and perils of chemical recycling as an approach to manage plastic waste. percent of all plastic waste generated annually, the report finds. There is no legal definition of chemical recycling.

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Measurement of persistent organic pollutants: Recent progress profiled

Envirotec Magazine

To combat this issue, international agreements, such as the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants, finalized in 2001, have been established to control and phase out the production and use of these hazardous chemicals. These chemicals have had unforeseen adverse effects, largely because of their non-biodegradability.

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Extreme weather conditions in Pakistan due to climate change

The Environmental Blog

On the other hand Pakistan has a long history of floods and floods of 1928, 1929, 1955, 1957, 1959, 1973, 1976, 1988, 1992, 1995, 1996, 1997, 2001, 2008, 2010, and recent 2020 share the saddest events with tremendous damages in the country. Glaciers are receding and wasting at a global level, which shows the sign of Global warming.

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Best of GBB in 2020: Green Businesses Leading the Sustainable Business Movement

Green Business Bureau

Founded in 2001, Martinrea International is one of the leading Tier One automotive suppliers of vehicle parts, assemblies and modules. energy efficiency, reduction of water consumption and waste generation). MARTINREA INTERNATIONAL. They are a top supplier of lightweight structures and fluid management/propulsion systems. SPECTRAFORCE.

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Biographite and the changing battery market

Smart Energy International

This is where CarbonScape comes in with a biographite alternative, produced from forestry and timber industry by-products – i.e. wood chips from forestry waste. I led on the creation of a successful energy franchise within the investment bank, raising >$1 billion in new equity for various ASX listed energy companies from 2001 to 2011.

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AECOM launches PFAS solution at remediation event

Envirotec Magazine

The same properties that make PFAS so effective in industrial processes and fire-fighting also make them extremely difficult to eliminate from the environment or waste material,” said Dr. Rachael Casson, AECOM’s director of the International PFAS Program. “To

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