New adsorbent removes radioactive caesium ions from nuclear wastewater
Selective adsorption of radioactive caesium ions (Cs+) in highly acidic conditions is a major challenge in nuclear powerplant wastewater treatment. In what's described as...
Firm partners with National Chemical Emergency Centre to bolster chemical response capability
Environmental risk reduction specialist Adler and Allan has partnered with the National Chemical Emergency Centre (NCEC) to provide training for its employees to deal...
The importance of regulation and compliance in the disposal of your chemical waste
Waste management firm Chloros Environmental specialises in the disposal of hazardous waste and recycling solutions. Here, managing director Richard Hurdle offers a contemporary perspective...
Comment: Puzzling out a solution to plastic and POPs
Growing pressure to transition to the circular economy and the desire to eliminate legacy additives is proving to be a conundrum for the plastics...
Group calls for better protection from hazardous chemicals worldwide
International advocacy group WECF (Women in Europe for a Common Future) has released a publication called Women and Chemicals which calls for more...
Firm cites significant carbon reductions for using energy recovery facilities to treat clinical waste
Resource management firm Veolia is highlighting how significant emissions reductions can be achieved by using energy recovery facilities, ERF, to dispose of the more...
SEPA raises concerns about waste handling at Trident submarine base
SEPA has criticised the MOD's handling of nuclear waste at a site near the Trident base in Faslane
SEPA opens healthcare waste consultation
All those who collect, transport, store treat and dispose of healthcare waste are being encouraged to respond to a consultation on its storage and...
Sponsored content: Adler and Allan announces trio of acquisitions
Adler and Allan, has announced the acquisition of three companies into the group: electrical specialists AMGS Electrical, hazardous material specialist Flotech Performance Systems Limited (Flotech) and industrial sewage specialist and underground infrastructure specialist Oneline Surveys
Plans for Scotland’s first hazardous soil treatment centre announced
Research project to create new materials from recycling’s waste products
Heriot-Watt University has joined forces with Brewster Bros, a recycling business based in Livingston,...
Lifting the pressure on aerosol disposal
WASTE processing organisation Remondis UK has launched "an innovative new solution to the challenge of managing aerosol waste disposal". The flat-packed, UN-approved containers can...
List presents safer chemicals for manufacturing IT products
When it comes to chemicals used in the manufacture of IT products, very few have been studied for their impact on humans and the...
Warning over disposing of expired hand sanitiser
A north-west waste management company has urged companies not to dump out-of-date hand sanitiser in the bin or tip the liquid down drains.
Blackburn-based CSG...
SMuRFs could help make nuclear decommissioning work safer
Nuclear power stations could be decommissioned in the future with the help of teams of autonomous robots known as the SMuRFs, scientists have suggested....
Lifting specialist reinforces relationship with low level radioactive waste operator
The UK's main facility dedicated to the safe and efficient disposal of low level radioactive waste has reinforced its partnership with Cooper Handling Group...
Crime doesn’t pay for owner who rented waste sites
A landowner was ordered to hand over £207,000 under the Proceeds of Crime Act for rent payments he received from illegally operated waste sites.
Kevin...
Hazards legislation to tighten
Expert urges under-prepared landfill site operators to act now over fuel re-categorisation
THOUSANDS of waste landfill site operators are being urged to act now over...
Recycling more precious metals from nuclear and electronic waste using the Picasso pigment
A big problem with the disposal of nuclear and electronic wastes is that the process wastes precious metals such as gold and platinum-group metals,...
Quarry firm in Cornwall fined for supplying asbestos-contaminated waste
A Cornish waste disposal company has been ordered to pay £26,500 in fines and costs for illegally handling and disposing of hazardous waste, according...
Comment: We’ll be digging up landfills within a decade
The earth has finite resources, and at some point, society will run low or even run out entirely of certain resources that it currently...
