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PAS 402 certification is Scottish standout for Perthshire waste management firm

Envirotec Magazine

Perthshire waste management specialist Binn Group has successfully secured PAS 402 certification, and as the firm’s announcement adds, this makes it the only Scottish company to currently hold the quality standard for resource management sector operators. Binn Group is uniquely established as the pathfinder for the scheme in Scotland.

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Bearing and seal maker shares net-zero manufacturing journey

Envirotec Magazine

While this is a lot of carbon, it is much lower than it was in 2001 – when we started monitoring our emissions. By developing and deploying a range of measures – including greater energy efficiency, avoiding waste and electrifying processes that currently use gas – it can be done. SKF’s global emissions are around 1.8 Factory output.

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New Report Calls Out Chemical Recycling as a ‘False Solution’ to the Plastics Crisis

DeSmogBlog

The report , released today by Beyond Plastics and the International Pollutants Elimination Network (IPEN), exposes the failures and perils of chemical recycling as an approach to manage plastic waste. percent of all plastic waste generated annually, the report finds. There is no legal definition of chemical recycling.

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Why Doesn’t Load Flexibility Have the Same Incentives as Energy Storage?

GreenTechMedia

But as an energy economist and former utility rate designer, I am cursed with the ability to do basic arithmetic, so to be clear: The economics of behind-the-meter (BTM) batteries in grid-connected commercial buildings are and will continue to be wasteful, inefficient and impractical, to put it kindly. energy crisis of 2000-2001.

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Can Shell help pilot a new era of sustainable aviation?

GreenBiz

SAF can be made from a variety of materials and byproducts, from agricultural waste and specially grown crops to used oils, inedible fats and everyday household trash. The fuel will be produced by World Energy and made from agricultural waste fats and oils, such as used cooking oil and inedible fats from beef processing. “As

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AECOM launches PFAS solution at remediation event

Envirotec Magazine

The same properties that make PFAS so effective in industrial processes and fire-fighting also make them extremely difficult to eliminate from the environment or waste material,” said Dr. Rachael Casson, AECOM’s director of the International PFAS Program. “To

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Sponsored Content: Your post-lockdown pollution-prevention plan: Why it pays to be proactive

Envirotec Magazine

Outside of specific legal requirements, such as the Control of Pollution (Oil Storage) Regulations 2001, there is not a single piece of overarching legislation dictating the various measures required to prevent and contain pollution across a site.

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