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Ice rink alternatives and their environmental impact

AGreenLiving

By 1843, a Punch magazine article featured the first artificial ice rink, “not of frozen water but of a slush of chemicals including hog’s lard and melted sulphur, which smelled abominably.” When the 1890s rolled around, the rush to patent ice rink surfaces began and has not abated since.

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Sanitisation chamber to support clothing and PPE reuse

Envirotec Magazine

The patented technology – created by University of the West of Scotland (UWS) and start-up firm Advanced Clothing Solutions (ACS) – will support the development of a state-of the-art ‘sanitisation chamber’ – designed by researchers at UWS. ACS clean around 45,000 garments each week.

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