Marketplace
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Domino Publishes Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Report
Corporate Reports
Domino Printing Sciences (Domino) has published its CSR Report 2025, providing customers with a clearer understanding of the company’s approach to sustainability and the progress it has made in key areas related to the environment, people, and society.
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SCOPE from Ovarro supports Welsh Water response to severe storm
Water
Upgraded telemetry technology helped Dŵr Cymru Welsh Water manage an unprecedented volume of alarms during a major weather event, writes Julian Booth, SCADA service delivery manager, Ovarro.
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First location in Nottinghamshire to install solar & wind powered defibrillator
Health & safety
Another rural Parish Council – East Markham – has taken the valiant step of ensuring residents in all parts of the village are safeguarded against sudden cardiac arrest. East Markham is the first location in Nottinghamshire to install a solar and wind powered defibrillator cabinet.
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The Fentex Trapper Range
Spill Control & Clean Up
British-Made Innovation Powered by Recycled Materials
As sustainability becomes a defining priority for British industry, choosing products that are both high performing and responsibly made has never mattered more. At Fentex, environmental responsibility and British manufacturing go hand in hand. As the largest Spill Control manufacturer in Britain, Fentex delivers an unrivalled product range that is manufactured and packaged in the UK, supporting local industry while reducing environmental impact.
Pollution
Researchers have found more evidence that microplastics are impacting freshwater wildlife in different countries around the world.
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.
Air quality company EarthSense is developing a digital twin of Hatfield Business Park, a mixed-use business park populated by small companies, to drive behavioural change for cleaner air by tackling nitrogen oxides and particulates by 2030.
Bristol-based company Matter has launched Gulp, a washing machine microfibre filter, on Kickstarter. The company specialises in technology solutions for the capturing, harvesting and recycling of microplastics.
A Whitby-based conservationist, Joe Redfern, is claiming the threat of his legal proceedings has now resulted in a commitment from Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, George Eustace MP, to carry out further investigations into the cause of mass crab and lobster mortalities off the Teeside and Yorkshire Coast in 2021.
Latest sewage statistics show water companies in England and Wales are treading water on sewage pollution and the Government's Defra's plan just threatens more stagnation, state The Rivers Trust as they update their popular online maps to display how Combined Sewage Overflows (CSOs) are performing with raw sewage releases into your local waterways.
The United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA) yesterday agreed one of the most significant policies ever to protect the world from the plague of plastic pollution, a key campaigner for the treaty, The Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA), write:
The ecological food-web of freshwaters may be adversely affected as new research reveals swirling river waters can trap lightweight microplastics that otherwise might be expected to float – depositing them in riverbeds where it can take up to seven years to transport them just a kilometre further towards the ocean.
Drainage and wastewater specialist Lanes Group has been supporting firefighters and the Environment Agency as they dealt with the aftermath of a huge industrial blaze in Worcestershire close to an ecologically rich canal.
To mark Earth Day the Ocean Legacy Foundation have launched EPIC Academy - a free online educational platform providing communities with knowledge regarding ocean plastic pollution, cleanup efforts, and solutions for creating plastic-free environments.
