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Hemp is due a hayday as farm-grown revival begins across UK Business

The British Hemp Company has launched a mill in Warminster and has boosted its plans for 12 farms across the UK, with its founder Stephen Glover pointing out that being locally grown it avoids the carbon footprint of imports. In the 1930s hemp fell out of favour in Britain after the price fell and a government disinformation campaign wrongly linked hemp with Cannabis.
Darker skies and less carbon from Cumbria County Council's lighting replacements Energy

Cumbria County Council's seven year £12.9m programme to replace over 45,000 street lights with more energy efficient and cost effective LED technology is nearing completion.
"Offsetting a cop-out" Polestar boss says as aims for climate neutral car Transport

Thomas Ingenlath, the boss of Swedish electric car brand Polestar, has turned his back on carbon offsetting in an ambition to create the first 'truly climate neutral car' by 2030.
Fashion made from seaweed fibre hopes for green takeoff Business

Fashion from seaweed fibre is behind an environmental entrepreneur's campaign to offset one gigaton of C02 by 2030 and counter the plastic microfibres shed into the environment from clothing.

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Jacopa

JACOPA WINS THAMES WATER CONTRACT FOR SAF

Wastewater treatment systems and solutions experts Jacopa have won a key Thames Water framework contract to provide their robust, high-performance modular Submerged Aerated Filters (SAF) systems throughout AMP 6 (2015-2020).

Jacopa

MINISTER 'DROPS IN' TO WASTEWATER SITE

Ireland's Minister of State for Food, Forestry and Horticulture, Wicklow-East Carlow TD Andrew Doyle has paid a surprise visit to the recently upgraded Dunlavin wastewater treatment plant in his Wicklow constituency.

Jacopa

RBC Problem? Jacopa's got it Covered

Wastewater treatment specialist's Jacopa have successfully replaced the covers of an existing Rotating Biological Contactor (RBC) at Frolesworth Sewage Treatment works in Leicestershire.

Hesco

UK ENVIRONMENT AGENCY STOCKPILE JACKBOX

Hesco patented flood barrier JACKBOX™ has successfully won the UK Environment Agency (EA) tender for 10Km of temporary flood defence, to be stored at strategic locations across the UK, for emergency flood deployment.

Hydro International

ABERDEEN INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS PARK GETS SUSTAINABLE SUDS TREATMENT WITH HYDRO'S POLLUTION CONTROL TECHNOLOGY

Aberdeen's new International Business Park, built next to the City's International Airport, is delivering a best-practice Sustainable Drainage (SuDS) scheme using filtration and bioretention technologies from Hydro International to meet strict planning and pollutant removal criteria.

Jacopa

GULLADUFF GETS THE JACOPA TREATMENT

Wastewater treatment and services experts Jacopa have installed new rotating biological contactors (RBCs) and other equipment to ensure the village of Gulladuff, Northern Ireland, enjoys excellent wastewater treatment.

Jacopa

JACOPA PACKAGED RBC's FOR HENLLAN WWWT PLANT

Jacopa has delivered two of its packaged rotating biological contactors (RBCs) to help a wastewater treatment plant in rural south-west Wales meet a more stringent Natural Resources Wales discharge consent.

HWM

PLYMOUTH UNIVERSITY SAVES £50,000 ON WATER BILL WITH HWM DATA LOGGERS

Plymouth University has saved more than £50,000 in water consumption costs with the help of half-hourly data loggers from water and asset monitoring specialist HWM.

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