Welsh rivers in urban locations still have damaged food chains and fewer species of...

Toxic chemicals from past decades could be hindering the recovery of Britain’s urban rivers, concludes a recent study by scientists from Cardiff University, the...
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New land contamination guidance

The EA has published its updated Land Contamination guidance: Risk Management (LCRM) document, which overrides the existing CLR11 publication .
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Oxidation method chosen for Nigerian oil clean-up

Eko Harden Technologies announced in June that its patented Ekogrid electrokinetic oxidation solution has been chosen for the world’s largest oil contamination recovery project in Nigeria’s Ogoniland region .
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Firm pays £150k to charity after spill

Stoke-on-Trent company, Fuerst Day Lawson Ltd, has donated £150,000 to The Trent Rivers Trust, following a pollution incident in the summer of 2015

Automation is the answer?

Envirotec spoke to Kirk Meikle of Darcy Spillcare, who believes many will be unaware of spill prevention system's present-day affordability and ease of installation .

Extolling the virtues of bespoke water quality measurement

Bespoke water quality measurement systems can address highly specific requirements. Water-quality instrumentation manufacturer Pollution and Process Monitoring (PPM) says it has a customer base...

Old mines cast a long shadow on their surroundings, says study of people’s attitudes

Local stakeholders need more information than is currently available to them on the impacts of former mining activities on ground water and surface water,...

Newly discovered microbes guzzle greenhouse gases (and maybe oil spills)

Scientists at The University of Texas at Austin’s Marine Science Institute have discovered nearly two dozen new types of microbes, many of which use...
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Conference aims to collate lessons

The theme of this year’s Premiam Conference was “Looking back and moving Forward”
The MBARI group used a biodegradeable dye to simulate an oil spill and test the capabilities of AUVs to perform useful monitoring and tracking functions

Robots fill a void

The challenge of tracking underwater oil plumes is starting to be addressed by the use of autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs). Recent months have seen a number of groups discussing experiments to evaluate this capability
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Reef spill should prompt review

Reports that a cruise vessel discharged several thousand litres of food waste and grey water into the Great Barrier Reef should send a clear message that MARPOL Annex IV needs urgent revision

Local authority SuDS demand prompts UK production deal, says supplier

Increasing Local Authority planning requirements for compliant Sustainable Drainage Systems (SuDS) in major developments is boosting demand for water quality treatment components, says supplier...

Instruments offer quick and simple analysis of metal content

Responding to customer demand from a wide variety of sectors, Ashtead Technology has added additional Niton XL3t GOLDD+ XRF Analysers to its rental fleet...

35% of microplastics released into the world’s oceans are from synthetic textiles, says IMechE...

Institution of Mechanical Engineers calls for urgent action to prevent the 6 million microfibres released from a typical 5kg wash load of polyester fabrics...

Pinpointing pollution sources

Steve Mustow of WYG on why we need to ensure that nutrient pollution control doesn't stand in the way of new development while continuing to protect sensitive aquatic environments

Cleaning spills with magnets

A seemingly new approach to oil-water separation – with implications for cleaning up oil and wastewater spills - has been developed by researchers at the Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry of the Chinese Academy of Sciences .

Water companies need to do more to protect the environment, says EA report

Water companies need to do more to protect the environment, says a new Environment Agency report published on 11 July 2018. Although there has been...

Firm to unveil new sensors at oil spill monitoring event in June

Chelsea Technologies Group (CTG) is among the sponsors of the 4th Premiam Conference "Post Spill Monitoring, Looking Back and Moving Forward" on the 21st...

Wastewater treatment plants are key route into UK rivers for microplastics, says study

Water samples from UK rivers contain significantly higher concentrations of microplastics downstream from wastewater treatment plants, a new study appears to reveal

Reasons for choosing in-situ remediation instead of ex-situ and mass-transfer

Miiro Jääskeläinen of Eko Harden Technologies looks at the tradeoffs between three common site clean-up methods for soil and groundwater