Marketplace
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Arc Intergrated Systems: Preventing algae from impacting treatment plants and the environment
Water
Eliminating algae from wastewater is one of the most essential actions we can take to save our environment. Additionally, this is essential to effectively and efficiently operating and maintaining plants and equipment.
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SDS - smart rainwater harvesting system
Water
Newmarket Pilot Project: SDS smart rainwater harvesting system addresses water scarcity and flooding
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RWM 2023 - leading event for waste, recycling and resource professionals
Trade Shows & Conferences
The Resource & Waste Management Expo (RWM) is a UK premier event for professionals working in the recycling, resource, waste, and broader environmental services industry. Formerly known as RWM & Letsrecycle Live, RWM offers a platform to connect with like-minded professionals, learn about the latest industry trends, and drive positive environmental change through sustainable resource management.
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EVO Spill Kits from First Mats
Spill Control & Clean Up
EVO Spill Kits Now Available From First Mats, Enhancing Workplace Safety and Environmental Responsibility
First Mats, a renowned Birmingham-based company specialising in industrial and commercial floor matting, has added an innovative range of Oil Spill Kits to its product line. By doing so, First Mats expands its commitment to floor-level safety and environmental responsibility. At the forefront of the range, the Eco-Friendly EVO Spill Kits provide the perfect balance between sustainability and high performance.
Business
For the second year Aquabio, who provide industrial wastewater treatment solutions, have successfully encouraged their employees to ditch their cars and instead use pedal power - currently amounting to travelling the circumference of planet earth, and with donations of 2.5 pence to charity for every kilometre travelled!
Smurfit Kappa has launched AgroPaper®, a renewable and compostable paper, made from pine fibres, designed to replace the plastic material that is used by many farmers and growers for 'mulching' when growing vegetables.
Attractive looking plastic free zones have been introduced by London supermarket Thornton's Budgens store in Camden's Belsize Park. In 10 weeks the store has managed to assemble more than 1,700 plastic-free products, featuring everything from fresh fruit and vegetables to wild game meat.
Kellogg's has announced that by the end of 2025 it will be on track for 100 per cent of its packaging being reusable, recyclable or compostable, including a new reward-based solution to encourage people to recycle Pringles cans and the introduction of recycle-ready cereal pouches.
Shell has opened applications for Shell Springboard 2019: a national programme that awards £350,000 no-strings funding to support cutting-edge low-carbon UK Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs).
Noel Morrin, Executive Vice President for Sustainability at Stora Enso writes: "Here's a bold statement but, we think, a true one: anything made from fossil-fuel materials today, can be made from a tree tomorrow. That means a future where there are sustainable alternatives to plastics, created from the fibres from the forest.
Efforts to monitor and manage the impacts of the tropical forestry sector are being hindered, due to many companies failing to accurately disclose where they operate – leaving biodiverse forests at risk of unsustainable exploitation. This is just one finding of an in-depth evaluation of forestry companies, published by ZSL - the Zoological Society of London.
Suranga Herath, CEO of English Tea Shop and winner of the National Business Award for Sustainability in 2017, gives his view on business and greenwash .......
Stora Enso, a Finnish headquarted company who aim to replace fossil-based materials by developing products based mostly on wood, has launched 'Lineo' a bio-based lignin as a renewable replacement for oil-based glue. Lignin is one of the main building blocks of a tree.
As an intial bid to phase out single use plastic packaging, the British Museum are introducing impulse bags of sweets which are wrapped in compostable, transparent packaging which breaks down and disappears in soil in six to 12 weeks. Regular biodegradable bags can take decades to degrade and can leave a residue in the soil.
