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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SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

Solar powered Zephyr® monitor installed on a post. Engineering consulting firm Tetra Tech is using Zephyr® air quality monitors from air quality expert EarthSense as part of its dust monitoring service.

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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.”. SDS Greywater Reuse System.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Nature has been recycling it for millennia. Smart water metering. The first two items: smart metering and leak detection, are more about building awareness of what’s happening, and supporting access to live to monitor water consumption and wastage. The four key areas for the deployment of smart technologies are: a.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 30, 2020

A new partnership aims to demonstrate how bespoke circular-economy batteries can tackle the mounting problem of e-waste, specifically in relation to electric vehicles. To combat this, the International Energy Agency (IEA) predicts sales of up to 44 million electric vehicles (EVs) a year by 2030.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Companies are taking a circular approach that supplants the throwaway culture by prioritizing – among other factors – life-cycle management, lifetime extension, circular design and reuse and recycling of products. 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

JULY 27, 2022

Brown is headed to San Diego to work for Dexcom, which makes continuous glucose monitors, but he has ideas about how the CD-to-sensor technology could be improved: “We used gold CDs, and we want to explore silver-based CDs, which I believe are more common. The sensors can communicate with a smartphone via Bluetooth. per device.

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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 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

DECEMBER 23, 2020

Along with the above, the project also includes the real-time monitoring of 550 containers for electronic waste with Sensoneo sensors. This will seemingly optimize waste collection, and ensure that sufficient free capacity is available for citizens to deposit further waste for recycling.

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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

MARCH 7, 2022

Yorkshire Water’s £50M Energy & Recycling Facility in Huddersfield. At Yorkshire Water’s new £50M Huddersfield Energy and Recycling Facility (E&RF), the digester mixing system from Landia is ensuring that total gas production can reach its anticipated 22,192Nm3/d (normal cubic meter/day).

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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

JULY 3, 2023

The UK government announced the disbursement of over £80 million funding on 28 June, intended to give a boost to a range of projects geared towards ditching fossil fuels in favour of cleaner energy sources. Projects include hydrogen-powered cornflake production and low-carbon Scottish whisky distillation. million from the government.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 6, 2020

million metric tonnes (Mt) of electronic waste was generated worldwide in 2019, up 21 per cent in just five years, according to the UN’s Global E-waste Monitor 2020. per cent of 2019’s e-waste was collected and recycled. Screens and monitors, lamps, small IT, and telecommunication equipment represented 6.7

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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 8, 2021

Control of these mechanised processes is key to producing a consistent throughput and output; too fast and the filter systems can be overwhelmed; too little tends to waste energy and capacity, and can have a detrimental effect on the quality of the final sludge. Controlling the thickening process. Both types of constraint can lead to errors.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 12, 2022

The primary purpose of the Packaging Recovery Note (PRN) should be to provide evidence of recycling and monitor progress towards meeting targets. But the PRN is also designed as a funding mechanism to encourage higher recycling levels when there is a risk of the targets not being met. An integrated system.

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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). We are clear in what we expect of businesses of all sizes, from SMEs to specialist companies.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Siemens Gamesa claims to have created the world’s first recyclable wind turbine blades. Gregorio Acero, Head of Quality Management & Health, Safety and Environment at Siemens Gamesa, says the company plans for the turbines to “generate renewable electricity for 20-30 years.”

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

More than half of the winners cited energy saving as key to their plans for success and a third were named winners for their innovation in becoming more efficient. A new Energy Transition Scotland Award was also added to the categories this year. improvement on energy storage, leading to significant carbon savings.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 17, 2020

With 2020 now upon us, Andrew Brady, UK CEO of EMR (formerly European Metal Recycling) reflects on what has changed in his sector since the start of the millennium, and offers perspective on its growing importance and the challenges that lie ahead. How much is used worldwide? Advances in recovery technology.

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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 7, 2023

” Set against a background of the limited availability of electric or other zero emission plant the programme shows the potential of lowering the carbon footprint of plant used in the company’s recycling, waste, construction and demolition operations.

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Greenability Magazine

MAY 10, 2023

We’re working with community partners to ensure we’re building a more resilient energy system for the future.” Renewable Energy – This program allows the city to offset a percentage of its energy usage through a renewable resource. The plan is to convert close to 90,000 streetlights to energy-efficient LEDs.

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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

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. A completely different sector, yet one that also presents harsh operating conditions for bearings, is wind energy.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 7, 2020

The directors of Powerfuel Portland – a firm aiming to deliver a proposed Energy Recovery Facility (ERF) at Portland Port on the Isle of Portland in Dorset – have provided more details about how how it will be a net-zero carbon project for its operational lifetime (up to 30 years).

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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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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 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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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 22, 2021

The Royal Mint has signed an agreement with Canadian clean tech start up Excir to introduce a seemingly world first technology to the UK, allowing it to safely retrieve and recycle gold and other precious metals from electronic waste. Less than 20% of electronic waste is currently recycled world-wide.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 1, 2022

In a modern world where storage infrastructure is increasingly prevalent, an organisation’s usage of technology and digital tools can make up a significant proportion of its carbon footprint.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

A key area where businesses can focus their carbon reduction efforts is manufacturing processes, both in terms of energy usage and the carbon footprint of raw materials. For the plastics that do not end up recycled or as pollution, the incineration process also emits a lot of carbon.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 27, 2021

An attempt to digitalize, or automate, battery collection for recycling is underway in Belgium. When it comes to the collection and recycling of batteries, Belgium is said to be a leader. Automatically collecting information from the moment of storage onwards, can further improve the logistic process.

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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

AUGUST 8, 2022

In the county, frequent droughts mean that the utility is investing in new technology to increase the county’s problematic drinking water supply through water recycling and aquifer recharge. Chaplin’s system works through a treatment process called reactive electrochemical membrane filtration.

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