Grist
AUGUST 10, 2023
Last month, the American Chemistry Council, a petrochemical industry trade group, sent out a newsletter highlighting a major new report on what it presented as a promising solution to the plastic pollution crisis: using “recycled” plastic in construction materials. This already happens with materials that don’t have plastics in them.)
Envirotec Magazine
JULY 14, 2023
By Wendy Furgusson, Associate, Environment and Health, Ramboll With Natural England’s recent changes to planning policy causing a reduction in the number of new homes built from 240,000 a year in 2018-19 to a projected 111,000 by 2025, awareness of nutrient pollution as a problem is becoming more widespread.
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Envirotec Magazine
JANUARY 25, 2022
Mark Nelson’s address will reflect on his experiences in the early 1990s Biosphere 2 project in the Arizona desert, in which he was responsible for managing a constructed wetland marsh recycling system. Biosphere 2 contained a rainforest, fog desert, freshwater and mangrove marsh and mini ocean with a coral reef.
GreenBiz
MARCH 30, 2021
For starters, they’re responsible for producing oxygen and removing CO2 and other pollutants from the air. remove an estimated 75,000 tons of air pollution per year. West Des Moines is home to three Microsoft data centers and two more are slated for construction starting in 2021. Urban forests in the U.S.
Green Business Bureau
NOVEMBER 5, 2021
With sustainability at the forefront of business models, companies can operate sustainably while still allowing reduced carbon emissions and pollution, enhanced energy and resource efficiency, and conservation of biodiversity and ecosystem services. Starting with a recycled structure is a big deal when it comes to building and construction.
The Environmental Blog
JULY 27, 2020
Amid the 2016 protests against the Dakota Access Pipeline, an expert called for rerouting due to the high risk of landslides along the construction path. This sent 150 million gallons of polluted water cascading into a stormwater ditch surrounding the plant. Hurricanes Can Cause Water Contamination. billion in damage.
Greenability Magazine
MAY 10, 2021
Both a rain garden and bioswale retain or slow the movement of water from the property, decreasing stormwater runoff. When properly constructed, rain gardens should drain and not have standing water within 24 to 48 hours of the rain event. Rain gardens and bioswales have similar results, but vary in how they are designed and work.
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