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Aquaculture becomes a net-positive

GreenBiz

You can download the entire report here. In more modern times, support for aquaculture has ebbed and flowed along with concerns about animal health and welfare, worries over the effluent pollution caused by wastewater discharges, and the unintended impacts of production infrastructure such as pipes and pumps on natural ecosystems.

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5 opportunities of a circular economy

GreenBiz

More than 100 billion tons of resources enter the economy every year — everything from metals, minerals and fossil fuels to organic materials from plants and animals. Use of resources has tripled (automatic PDF download) since 1970 and could double again by 2050 if business continues as usual. Protect human health and biodiversity.

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The circular economy shows its human side

GreenBiz

You can download the entire report here. While the Basel Convention criminalized transboundary movement of hazardous waste (of which most electronics are classified) to limit some human health implications of electronics waste streams, plastic waste is another story, only recently having been included in the convention. Lauren Phipps.

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World Air Quality Report 2022 highlights pollution hotspots

Envirotec Magazine

Low-cost air quality monitors sponsored and hosted by citizen scientists, researchers, community advocates, and local organizations have proven to be a valuable tool to reduce the massive inequalities in air monitoring networks across the world, until sustainable regulatory air quality monitoring networks can be established.

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Air pollution and premature death: Life expectancy impacts described in Bristol study

Envirotec Magazine

Research considers health impact in England’s eighth biggest city, Bristol. The economic health impact costs of air pollution in Bristol estimated to be up to £170 million a year. The report calculates that the annualised health impact costs of air pollution in Bristol is up to £170 million every year. billion for PM2.5

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Reaching WHO targets for air quality could boost UK economy by £1.6bn annually, says study

Envirotec Magazine

billion benefit to the UK economy annually by reducing premature deaths, sickness absence and lower productivity at work – if the UK were to meet the World Health Organization (WHO) guidelines for air pollution, which are stricter than the current UK legal limits. Its findings include a reported £1.6

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Beyond the Stockholm Convention: new regulations targeting forever chemicals

Envirotec Magazine

The signing of the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) in 2001 marked a historic moment, as it was the first global treaty aimed at eliminating or restricting chemicals harmful to human and environmental health.

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