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UK firm presents “game-changing” solution to monitoring indoor air quality

Envirotec Magazine

Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) is a global concern for health, wellbeing and productivity as people spend 90% of their time indoors, where IAQ can be up to 7 times worse than outdoor air quality. million UK homes are hazardous to health, with a cost to the NHS of more than £1 billion per year.

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Startups to watch: Innovate UK announces sustainability accelerator programme

Envirotec Magazine

Innovate UK KTN has chosen 13 startups to participate in its sustainability accelerator programme. Over the next ten weeks, 13 companies selected from the Sustainable Innovation Fund will work with Innovate UK KTN and their partners growth studio and the ecosystems to further develop propositions and prepare to raise external capital.

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Actuators firm secures framework with Southern Water

Envirotec Magazine

Electric valve actuation expert AUMA Actuators Limited (AUMA UK) has added Southern Water to its growing list of successful frameworks with major UK water companies. Our 39,808 kilometres of sewers and 3,321 pumping stations collect wastewater from our customers’ homes and businesses and from outside drains.

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Kansas City achieves LEED Gold with LEED for Cities

Greenability Magazine

City recognized for its sustainability and commitment to a greener future The City of Kansas City, MO has achieved a new level of sustainability leadership with the LEED for Cities rating system for local governments. We’re working with community partners to ensure we’re building a more resilient energy system for the future.”

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Lithium mining and its water impact: More complex than previously thought?

Envirotec Magazine

Water usage is exceeding its resupply in regions where lithium mining is undertaken, reports what is seemingly the first study to attempt a comprehensive account of the hydrological impact of lithium mining. The research was led by researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst in collaboration with the University of Alaska Anchorage.

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Sandwell clean air project backed with £50,000 government funding

Envirotec Magazine

Monitoring expert EarthSense is among the firms supporting the project. The project will be led by air quality and public health consultants Enjoy the Air, in partnership with the Sandwell Council, to examine the link between air pollution, behaviour and the cost of air pollution-related healthcare in the Sandwell area.

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Project sets out to create compostable crop sensors

Envirotec Magazine

An international research collaboration is setting out to find new ways of monitoring crop growth with biodegradable sensors which can be composted at the end of their lifespan. They will find ways to create devices built from sustainable and degradable materials with the aim of cutting down on the growing problem of electronic waste.