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Innovation would help find more chemicals in water, say conference speakers

Envirotec Magazine

John Collins, deputy director of evidence assessment and evaluation at the Environment Agency, said that despite having one of the most robust pollutants testing systems globally, rapid investment in innovation is needed to detect all sources of contamination from both established and newly emerging pollutants.

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Sponsored content: Green chiller is cool choice

Envirotec Magazine

Mackie’s green initiative involves replacing the gases used in its refrigeration plants from HCFC – which have a very high global warming potential – to ammonia, an environmentally-friendly refrigerant that has no impact on global warming or ozone depletion. As part of a £4.5 www.gea.com.

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Sustainable laundry start-up Oxwash cleans up with £10m investment round

Business Green

Sustainable laundry and 'wet-cleaning' start-up Oxwash has secured £10m of investment in its latest funding round, with the proceeds earmarked to support the expansion of its business in the UK and US, the firm announced yesterday. Start up secures fresh backing to expand its sustainable 'wet cleaning' technique across the UK and US.

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To Meet Sustainability Goals, Food Companies Need To Slash Methane

EDF + Business

Methane is indirectly affecting agricultural productivity through climate change and ozone pollution , which is known to harm ecosystems and plants. Fortunately, fast and ambitious methane mitigation can help avoid crop losses caused by ozone pollution.

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CO2 monitors facilitate rollout of environmentally friendly refrigeration in Australian supermarkets

Envirotec Magazine

One of the twenty commitments within the strategy is to innovate with natural refrigerants and reduce refrigerant leakage in its stores by 15 per cent (of carbon dioxide equivalent) below 2015 levels. However, Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) caused damage to the ozone layer and were phased out following the Montreal Protocol in 1987.

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TED Talk: Humanity’s Planet-Shaping Powers and What They Mean for the Future

Sustainability Consulting

Steiner argues that humanity has achieved many radical things like closing a giant hole in the ozone layer, ending nuclear proliferation and smallpox, but we have also taken the Earth to the brink. Costa Rica abolished its army and used the money to invest in health and education. Here are a few examples.

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How the UK's net zero mission reaches all the way to Antarctica

Business Green

It has revealed that human activities have been the dominant force of global climate change since the mid-20th century, underlined by the discovery, more than 30 years ago, of the Ozone Hole over Halley and Faraday Research Stations on Antarctica by scientists at British Antarctic Survey.