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Project secures EU funding to create sugars, chemicals and plastics from household waste

Envirotec Magazine

The VAMOS (Value Added Materials from Organic Waste Sugars) project has received €6,984,813 funding from the Bio Based Industries Joint Undertaking (BBI JU) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme. Reduce environmental plastic pollution levels.

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Academic collaboration boosts SME efforts to reach net zero

Envirotec Magazine

One of the scheme’s participants, Runcorn-based Arvia Technology has drawn on the input of a Master’s research project in its development of an award-winning system for removing chemical pollutants from water.

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Sponsored content: New generation of ecological degreasers and oil spill clean-up products now available

Envirotec Magazine

OSE II is not a bacteria fertilizer, or a dispersant product and does not contain any non-indigenous organisms. T&T Eco’s range of Natural Absorbents includes Pro Earth’s patented (Peat fibre based) ProCleanSorb. It is Hydrophobic (will not absorb water) and can be used as an effective filter to reduce pollution & clear spills.

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From field to faucet

Envirotec Magazine

Dr Akmez Nabeerasool, senior product manager at industrial water recycling specialist Arvia Technology , discusses advances in the post-treatment purification of water polluted by persistent traces of agrochemicals. Volatile AOXs (halogenated organic compounds) must fall under a yearly average of < 1mg/L. Treatment challenges.

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Ice rink alternatives and their environmental impact

AGreenLiving

By 1843, a Punch magazine article featured the first artificial ice rink, “not of frozen water but of a slush of chemicals including hog’s lard and melted sulphur, which smelled abominably.” When the 1890s rolled around, the rush to patent ice rink surfaces began and has not abated since.

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Are microbes the future of recycling? It’s complicated.

Grist

This story was originally published by Undark Magazine and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. This pollution problem is made worse, experts say, by the fact that even the small share of plastic that does get recycled is destined to end up, sooner or later, in the trash heap. billion tons of plastic.