Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Circular economics is going to be a key focus for global businesses in 2024, according to Stuart Thompson, President of ABB Electrification Service (a business unit within the larger ABB group). 1 Modern day industrial servicing is proving to be key to delivering this shift in strategy, according to the group.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 22, 2022

As we enter the warmer months, waste and recycling sites are increasingly vulnerable to fire. Instead, they are often simply thrown in with general household waste or recycling. After a fire, operational downtime can be crippling to a waste and recycling business. James Mountain offers pointers on fire safety.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

There were 12 winners at the annual “VIBES – Scottish Environment Business Awards” in Glasgow on Tuesday 1 November, recognising innovations including a system for using treated wastewater to provide heating, and a solution that empowers homeowners in striving for net zero. Engaging Scotland Award – The Highland Council.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Enough energy to power all households in the USA and Mexico; Enough nutrients to meet ~13% of world fertilizer needs; Enough water to fill Lake Victoria in seven years, Lake Ontario in four. ” Among many findings: The energy value in 380 billion m3 of wastewater is estimated to be 53.2

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Eleni Diamantopoulou is Practice Development Lawyer (Energy) at Womble Bond Dickinson. Eleni Diamantopoulou writes The Energy Act 2023 (the Act) is finally here. Energy Storage : The Act brings the missing clarity that was blocking investment by adding a clear definition for energy storage.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

A next-generation water recycling system, unveiled by water infrastructure systems specialist SDS, will seemingly boost business sector efforts to save water by offering significantly improved investment returns for commercial developers and operators. In this way the system saves energy, too.”.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 13, 2021

Water infrastructure planners should aim to exploit emergent digitally-controlled rainwater storage and recycling technologies to contribute substantially to water demand reduction targets, as well as reducing flood and pollution risks, say experts. SDS says its Intellistorm system is operating successfully at Southbank Place.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 5, 2023

According to the World Bank, agricultural development is one of the most powerful tools to end extreme poverty, boost shared prosperity, and feed a projected 9.7 Water can be recycled, and pesticides are almost completely unnecessary. Again, accurate monitoring and control is vital. billion people by 2050.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 17, 2019

Derek Bryan of fleet management software and solutions firm Verizon Connect offers a rundown of pointers for improving the sustainability of fleet-based businesses. Going green is currently front of mind for businesses and consumers alike. Many consumers are turning away from brands with poor environmental credentials. Smart routing.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 12, 2024

The researchers call for urgent collaboration on: • Continuous air monitoring via a network of sensors in order to build a detailed picture of air pollution variations and track progress. Investment in clean energy such as solar, hydropower and wind to meet Africa’s energy demand which is expected to double by 2040.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

The Environment Act 2021 provides powers for the Scottish Government to develop regulations to introduce a digital waste tracking service in Scotland, which will be implemented by the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA). SEPA urges Scottish businesses and stakeholders to take part in the consultation and provide their views.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 1, 2022

This November, world leaders, climate activists, and business executives have been gathering in Sharm El-Sheikh for COP27, the UN’s annual Climate Change Conference. To ensure we get to net-zero, and prevent catastrophic global temperature rises, businesses across all sectors need to rapidly accelerate their emissions reductions.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 12, 2022

An innovative new project is ‘distilling’ residues from Scotland’s famous whisky industry into sustainable, green energy. Chief Scientist Elise Cartmell said: “We’re very pleased with the findings which show that the trial boosted biogas production and significantly reduced the site’s need for oil to power its on-site boiler.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Individual bearings use relatively little energy, but as they are in such widespread use and are also one of the most frequently replaced components, the sustainability of the bearings you use matters. By applying the 3 Rs of the waste hierarchy – Reduce, Reuse, Recycle – to this category of component, we can make a genuine difference.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 21, 2021

A next-generation smart greywater-recycling system has been installed at a residential development in one of London’s most exclusive neighbourhoods. Accurate usage calculations. By contrast, an MBR system would require a minimum usage rate to be reached before it could be set in operation. The apartment at 80 Holland Park.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 8, 2022

Due to widespread use in industrial settings, fertilizers and commercial products that end up in landfills, PFAS seep into groundwater and drinking water supplies. PFAS are man-made chemicals found in many common materials, and the grant will support the team’s work for three years.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Combining high-resolution cameras with Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR), is transforming the speed with which fly-tipping events can be identified – especially at public recycling points. It doesn’t matter if the bin is full. Or if access restricted in some way.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

In the years since 2015’s Paris Climate Accord, many industrial businesses have begun using carbon offsetting strategies to balance the emissions of their operations. Here, Samir Jaber, technical writer at sustainable materials sourcing platform Matmatch, explains why offsetting alone will not suffice — and what businesses can do instead.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Will Rogers is health and safety director at Eco Verde Energy, a firm that provides operational, advisory and back office support to anaerobic digestion plants. Will Rogers of Eco Verde Energy (EVE) shares insight into how AD plants specifically can provide a safer working environment for operators. Adoption of a new technology.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Current physical and chemical extraction techniques are energy intensive or use solvents that are difficult to recycle to dissolve valuable metals from electronic circuit boards. The new method developed by the group uses recyclable solvents to extract valuable gold and copper from printed circuit boards. kilograms – a total 1.6

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Business Green

JULY 3, 2020

By 2025, Pandora, the world's largest jewelry brand by volume, will use 100 per cent recycled silver and gold in its products. As it stands, 71 percent of the silver and gold in Pandora jewelry comes from recycled sources. Recycling metals uses fewer resources than mining new metals.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 15, 2020

Other ways that Best Cleaners has greened their business are by switching to LED lighting in their facilities and creating a hanger recycling program. Additionally, Best Cleaners is a member of the Green Business Bureau and is a certified green business. Magazine in August 2011, 2012 and 2013.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 20, 2020

” Via the app, organisations can arrange collection of their redundant IT equipment for secure recycling. How many have invested in their own on site, fully accredited recycling facility? Recycling old IT equipment with us is an incredibly rewarding process in so many ways,” concludes Westbrook.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

In this feature, Tim Broadhurst, chief commercial officer at Cooper-Ostlund , discusses the importance of maximising CHP performance and how a few simple steps can boost your site performance significantly. By integrating ETC technology with your engines, it’s possible to achieve enhanced power generation capacity efficiencies.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 5, 2021

The UK eats over 500,000 tonnes of fresh tomatoes each year but only grows 20% of them here, a state of affairs that commercial tomato-growing firm Sterling Suffolk says it is attempting to address using an unusual glasshouse technology to minimise the environmental impact of the activity. The business, advised by DUGUUD, is raising up to £6.75

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 20, 2022

The final trend we are observing is connectivity – the opportunities available to us by technologies such as digital sensors and remote monitoring. That coupled with our insatiable need for devices, data centers, and microchips means a whole ecosystem around connectivity will continue to drive business over the next several decades.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

The programme titled ‘Dirty Business’ delved into criminal waste activities – ranging from ‘man with a van’ flytipping and waste being burnt in a drum to large scale illegal activities with links to serious organised crime such as abandoned lorry trailers bursting with up to 41 tonnes of waste and illegal landfills.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 14, 2021

Salesforce tower in downtown San Francisco: The software firm was lauded for its support for blackwater reuse in a commercial high-rise building. It has also achieved a 50% reduction in energy savings. This is the first and largest district-scale blackwater recycling system in a commercial building in California.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Intended to fill the policy vacuum emerging from the UK’s departure from the EU on 31 January, the Environment Bill has been eagerly anticipated, and seemingly gives government the power to set legally binding targets on all aspects of the environment in future. Working with business.

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Business Green

JULY 13, 2021

Qatar Airways' may have promised fans it would help them 'fly greener', while VW chose to showcase its new electric vehicles, but as ever carbon intensive and plastic-touting industries were highly visible. The Land Rover ad featured on 12th June 2021 in the Guardian magazine.

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 29, 2020

How Pandora hopes to reach 100% recycled silver and gold Deonna Anderson Mon, 06/29/2020 – 16:55 By 2030, Pandora, the world’s largest jewelry brand by volume, will use 100 percent recycled silver and gold in its products. As it stands, 71 percent of the silver and gold in Pandora jewelry comes from recycled sources.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 25, 2021

“This has rapidly developed to encompass use of data, SMART materials and energy, resulting in innovative pilots ranging from using drones to identify potholes and recycled plastic in road surfacing, to installing geo-thermal probes to de-ice carparks and heat buildings.”

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 5, 2023

If you take Shell’s word for it, the oil giant’s growing petrochemical operations are indicative of its “commitment” to a cleaner energy future. Credit: Anne Rolfes In 2021, Shell launched its “Powering Progress” strategy outlining how it plans to “transform into a net-zero emissions energy business.”

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Green Business Bureau

JUNE 8, 2021

Golf Course Sustainability: Balancing Business with Protecting the Environment. If you own, operate or manage a golf course, it’s time to get serious about sustainability and become a more eco-friendly business. The younger generation of today cares about climate change, the planet and who they do business with.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

A pilot plant on the University of Bath campus is said to be able to recycle up to 60% of plastic lab waste, to make back into new lab consumables. Currently, less than 1% of this waste is being recycled. Water usage is also minimised through recycling, further reducing the environmental impact.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

A leading UK and European recycling company was fined £20,000 at Airdrie Sheriff Court on 16 November after Scotland’s environmental regulator, SEPA, uncovered what it described as the largest single illegal export of household waste from Scotland. It was loaded inside 51 forty-foot shipping containers destined for recycling in China.

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Greenability Magazine

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

The project met sustainability benchmarks for energy efficiency, water conservation, material selection, waste reduction, and more to achieve the Leadership in Energy and Design (LEED) certification. “The Electric Vehicles KCI is now the first U.S. airport to feature wireless electric bus charging.

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