Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 8, 2024

The company, which takes construction, demolition and excavation waste from the construction sector and recycles it before selling it back to the construction industry, has invested in new capacity to meet market demand for high quality recycled aggregate products with assistance from Scottish Enterprise’s Green Jobs Fund.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 15, 2022

Recent works completed in South Croydon used the proprietary soil enhancement system developed by Soil Science. But new technologies and new ways of conceptualising the problems are starting to appear, as specialist contractor Soil Science explains. It’s incredibly easy to create waste in the construction industry.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 7, 2022

Rwanda has been flooded in the past due to its fragile soils and deforestation. This complex situation represents a use case where Geolux has positioned itself as an expert in the most demanding hydrology situations. www.geolux-radars.com.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 27, 2022

Thomas Borch, professor in the Department of Soil and Crop Sciences with joint appointments in chemistry and civil engineering, is leading the awarded CSU research team and also serves on the leadership team of the national alliance. Reducing demand for water. The CSU team has received a $1.9

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

New product aims to meet one quarter of the UK demand by using waste streams from the paper industry. Currently working with 300 poultry farms and with a target of meeting one quarter of the UK demand, the product has been developed by Veolia’s organics team.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 3, 2023

Because they are indispensable in modern technology and electronics, the demand for them has increased steadily over the past few decades, and is predicted to rise further by 2030. and 67 parts per million) within the Earth’s crust. Most of these strains had never been assessed for their biotechnological potential before.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 25, 2024

billion tonnes of waste is dumped globally, with devastating effects on our air, oceans and soil. However, the waste industry is struggling to meet this demand because of the complexity behind sorting recycled materials such as plastic, compounding a missed $133 billion opportunity. Each year, 2.12

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 16, 2023

With droughts affecting the UK for much of last summer, the project, from Westcountry Rivers Trust and South West Water, will not only contribute to better hydrated wetlands, woodlands and fields, but can help farms manage water demand through dry weather, as well as boost aquatic biodiversity.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 30, 2021

In California’s seasonally dry Mediterranean climate, plants and animals rely on rainfall and soil moisture recharge during the rainy winter and spring seasons for reproduction and growth during the typically dry summers. The study is part of a $2.5

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 12, 2020

These land use techniques are designed to reduce the soil compaction which increases run-off. The planting of shrubs and trees also helps infiltration and retention by generating a demand for soil moisture, so that soils have a greater capacity to absorb water. Conveyance. Monitoring NFM.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 5, 2024

Peatlands store around one-third of the world’s soil carbon, playing a vital role in reducing carbon emissions and combatting climate change. Researchers will develop new ways to monitor carbon emissions from vast swathes of peatland after winning almost half a million pounds to develop new sensors that can be used in remote areas.

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Greenability Magazine

APRIL 13, 2021

Senator Gaylord Nelson from Wisconsin inspired more than 20-million Americans (10 percent of the population at the time) to gather at “teach-ins,” rallies and protests to demand cleaner air and water. Heart & Soil , CinemaKC. The post Earth Day goes big & virtual again appeared first on Greenability Magazine.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 5, 2023

There are also increasing concerns about the effects of agriculture on soil health, with detrimental effects including erosion, pollution (nutrients and pesticides), compaction, desertification and salinisation. With no soil or pesticide contamination, water efficiency is further enhanced by the absence of a requirement for washing.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 9, 2022

Its 3d printing expertise can deliver customised membranes with uniform pore size and distribution on demand and at customer’s site. The technology improves settleability and increases treatment capacity by reducing hydraulic retention times and lowering oxygen demand.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 27, 2023

Among their many useful properties, they can keep soil away from fabrics in laundry detergents, enhance the performance of cosmetics, help paint stick to walls, and even help make drinking water clean and safe. Without knowing it, we interact with PLFs every day. The latter seeks to set a standard for the recycling and circularity of PLFs.

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Low Impact

AUGUST 9, 2020

Natural organic reduction, a technique for turning human remains into “soft, beautiful soil” is being billed by its American developers, Recompose , as the greenest of green funerary practices. They are growing in popularity and demand, as the old joke goes, is likely to remain steady. These come in a bewildering array.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 26, 2022

The company’s 3D printing expertise can deliver customised membranes with uniform pore size and distribution on demand and at customer’s site. The technology improves settleability and increases treatment capacity by reducing hydraulic retention times and lowering oxygen demand. Nuvoda (US) – circular economy.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 12, 2024

We know that war is bad for the environment, with toxic chemicals left polluting the soil and water for decades after fighting ceases. Using an array of methods, colleagues and I have been working to open this “black box” of wartime emissions and demand transparent reporting of military emissions to the UN’s climate body, the UNFCCC.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Launching an interactive map, using data from The Forever Pollution Project , to allow people to look at the levels of PFAS in their local waterways, the Royal Society of Chemistry is now calling on people to write to their parliamentarian to demand change and pass stricter statutory drinking water standards.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 10, 2021

While traditional leak detection techniques and instruments are less suitable for surveying large stretches of large-diameter pipes in rural terrain, Utilis’ technology is agnostic to pipe size or material, identifying leaks via soil moisture created by potable water mixing with the surrounding earth. Wake-up call.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Knowing these gaps and potential drivers can help to guide the development and implementation of best management practices, such as soil testing and specialized fertilizers that are better absorbed by crops.”.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 26, 2021

A credible strategy, led by Defra, and integrated with the challenges for how we use our land and our soil, is needed. There is less emphasis on reducing demand for high carbon activities than in the CCC’s scenarios. The CCC will provide further advice on this.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 24, 2021

Animal products account for 16% of total greenhouse gas emissions, and this number is expected to grow to 35% by 2050 with increases in demand for animal products, driven by increased consumer wealth in emerging economies like India and China. The Climate Impact of Alternative Proteins. tofu, nuts, peas, beans), insects, mycoproteins (e.g.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

But the result, critics say, has been a proliferation of intensive farming practices that damage soils, nature, and the climate by ironing out as much unpredictability as possible from the natural world through pesticides, hulking machinery, and crop homogeneity. The outlook is certainly worrying.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 14, 2023

That regime was brought in to govern the launch of satellites from UK soil, such as the Virgin Orbit mission from Newquay in January. However, the MPs found that, as a result of insufficient coordination between the multiple regulatory bodies involved in launch licensing, there is an unnecessary burden on space companies.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 14, 2021

Demand for ethanol in Scotland is expected to double in the coming years to more than 100 million litres, yet all of the country’s supply is currently imported from Europe. Jim Booth, Head of Co-op Development at SAOS, commented: “The re-introduction of sugar beet represents an exciting opportunity for farmers.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 23, 2020

The Scottish Aquaculture Innovation Centre estimates that demand for insect protein from that sector alone is worth more than £25m per year. When food is thrown away, that wastes not only its nutritional value but also the water, soil, nutrients, work hours, energy, transport and plastic packaging involved in producing and selling it.

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Andrew Winston

JANUARY 14, 2020

At the end of the year, Time Magazine named 16-year-old climate activist Greta Thunberg as their youngest “Person of the Year” ever. More than 8,700 Amazon associates signed an open letter to CEO Jeff Bezos demanding the company develop an aggressive climate action plan. The climate protest movement explodes.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 11, 2023

With their wide deployment and persistence, it’s no surprise PFAS collect in landfills – one of a number of acute pressure points in the environment where there is an elevated risk of their finding their way into soil, water and air. The method can also produce toxic halogens like perchlorate, presenting additional treatment demands.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 2, 2021

A short period of heavy rainfall is not sufficient to make up this shortfall of rainfall and much of it may quickly run off the dry soils without soaking in. Significant and Moderate Scarcities remain in place in many areas of northern and south-western Scotland. ” Public and private water supplies.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 21, 2021

Over the next few decades, with the impacts of climate change and the demand for new properties to be built on floodplains, the level of investment and choice of resilience measures seen in the past decade will not be enough. It is estimated that for every £1 spent on protecting properties against flooding, £5 in damages are avoided.

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Greenability Magazine

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

When the COVID-19 pandemic hit in 2020, Shelar volunteered to drive a KC Can truck to pick up food waste, which gets put back into soil to grow healthy foods. At 50 years old, she says her physique and stamina prevented her from seeking out many of the jobs in the sector that demand physically strenuous tasks.

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Unsustainable

AUGUST 12, 2019

Over the decades agriculture and demand for building materials and fuelwood slowly claimed more and more trees. Deforestation affects rainfall, potentially triggering a vicious circle of dryer conditions, soil erosion and desertification. By the turn of the millennium just 2.3% of the country was forested. Tensions rise.

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Andrew Winston

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Besides some increase in agricultural and forestry production, most natural systems that support us — like rich soil carbon and pollinator health (i.e., Second, this report is, according to one author , the most “exhaustive” look at interrelated challenges of species loss, water stress, food demand, and climate change. billion people.

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Andrew Winston

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Besides some increase in agricultural and forestry production, most natural systems that support us — like rich soil carbon and pollinator health (i.e., Second, this report is, according to one author , the most “exhaustive” look at interrelated challenges of species loss, water stress, food demand, and climate change. billion people.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 14, 2021

Both the City and Apple faced a challenge in meeting their peak summer water needs, when the largely agricultural region also faces high demand. The brewing company’s aim was to compensate and return 420,000m3 of water each year to Doñana.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

That loss is serious enough under PHMSA [Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration] regulations to demand immediate repair,” Caram explained. “The pipeline has been repaired, pressure tested, and covered with soil. Despite the ruptured pipeline and subsequent spill, Collins’ failed pipeline wasn’t shut down for long.

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