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Redesigning Laboratory Consumables for a Sustainable Future
Laboratory, Monitoring, Process & Analytical
Across labs, sustainability is often framed through large, visible systems, energy consumption, facility design, and instrumentation efficiency. Yet some of the most persistent environmental impacts originate much closer to the experiment itself. Consumables, like pipette tips, are a clear example as they are essential to most workflows, used in vast quantities, and largely overlooked in sustainability calculations.
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Everflow targets UK’s growing electrical waste problem with new SME disposal service
Waste Management
Everflow, a leading multi-utilities company serving businesses across the UK, has launched a new Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) disposal service designed specifically to help small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) manage electrical waste safely and compliantly.
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Polytag, Saica Flex, and Paragon Inks Announce Strategic Partnership to Transform Waste Journey Traceability
Waste Management
Polytag, Saica Flex, and Paragon have announced a strategic partnership to deliver innovative UV-tagged packaging labels, designed to provide brands with real-time, actionable environmental data.
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Ultravalve launches digital RPZ test kit as Water Regs UK updates RPZ guidance
Water
Ultravalve, a specialist supplier of RPZ valves and backflow prevention solutions, has launched a new digital RPZ test kit designed to support compliance with updated Water Regs UK guidance on the installation and testing of Reduced Pressure Zone (RPZ) valves, which came into force on 1 January 2025.
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Installation of the UK's largest single-roof solar array – 6.6MW - is set to begin later this month at the Barton-upon-Humber manufacturing plant of one of the UK's leading kitchen and bedroom retailers, Wren.
Researchers have found more evidence that microplastics are impacting freshwater wildlife in different countries around the world.
Shoppers might be shocked to learn they're contributing to destroying the Amazon rainforests! This is after UK supermarkets have been ranked on their efforts to remove deforestation and land conversion from their supply chains for soy – a key commodity imported to feed British livestock, poultry and salmon.
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Applications are now open for a unique and innovative postgraduate course that will explore how we can transform the fortunes of biodiversity, launched by The University of Manchester.
In 2022/23 there were 42,000 large fly-tipping incidents in England alone. This cost hard-pressed local authorities £13.2 million (compared to £10.7 million the previous year) and created a threat to human health, wildlife habitats and the wider environment. Defined as being at least one tipper lorry load in size, large fly-tipping incidents also create a barrier to land development, improvement and restoration.
Peel Environmental's flagship £700m Protos scheme has been opened by 'Northern Powerhouse' Government Minister Andrew Percy MP who cut the ribbon on the 134-acre strategic development site close to Ellesmere Port, near the Cheshire banks of the River Mersey.
Subsea Industries' Ecospeed hull protection system has been selected because of its environmental credentials in tough icy conditions for RRS Sir David Attenborough, the polar research ship under construction at the Cammell Laird shipyard in Birkenhead, Merseyside, NW England.
A coalition of environmentalists have found big loopholes for tiny microbeads in the UK Government's proposed ban.
