Marketplace
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Bunting's new manual-clean FF Drawer Filter Magnet enables quick, easy & safe removal of ferrous metal
Waste Management
Bunting's new manual-clean FF Drawer Filter Magnet features an insert easily retrofitted into existing FF Drawer Filters. The new insert enables quick, easy and safe removal of ferrous metal captured on the high-strength tube magnets. The Drawer Filter Magnet captures tramp ferrous metal in plants producing and recycling plastics, processing foodstuffs, powders, and many other dry materials.
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Pielkenrood Technology to play a key role in Envorem’s Greentech System tackling oily sludge
Water
Pielkenrood is one of the world's leading experts in the field of oil / water separation and water treatment and Envorem has chosen to include Pielkenrood technology in its trailblazing sludge and soil remediation system.
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Hiden unveils next generation gas analyser
Air Quality
Hiden Analytical Unveils the Next Generation Gas Analyser: The QGA 2.0
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BT Group
Corporate Reports
An important part of our strategic progress is to lead the way to a bright sustainable future. We've made long-term commitments on how we'll contribute positively to our country and society in the BT Group Manifesto. This year we've continued to deliver on our Manifesto commitments to be a responsible, inclusive and sustainable business.
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.
