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Washington State Parks and Recreation reports great results from using handheld bird repellent - Case Study
Washington State Parks and Recreation reports great results from using handheld bird repellent Andrew Fielding, environmental planner and resource steward at Washington State Parks and Recreation, currently uses handheld bird repellent developed by Bird Control Group to keep his parks and beaches clean. Andrew says: ”These lasers are very effective and are keeping my swim beaches and ...
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Self-Propelled beach cleaners or Tractor towed beach cleaners?
Are self-propelled beach cleaners better or worse than tractor-towed beach cleaners? Here are a few of the top considerations: 1. With self-propelled machines, you get less beach cleaner for more money. Across the boards, self-propelled machines cost much more than tractor and beach cleaner machine combinations. Additionally, their actual beach cleaning specifications, like cleaning width and ...
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Balancing Environmental Concerns with Beach Attractiveness
Maintaining beaches that are free of human debris often creates a challenge, because synthetic debris often mixes with natural organic deposits from the ocean, like seaweed. For many beach owners and locations, removing seaweed and other debris at the tide line using mechanical beach cleaners is no problem, and actually, preferred. This creates a pristine beach for visitors to enjoy. In addition ...
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CECO C.A.R.E.S
As we conclude our Earth Day celebrations at CECO, I would like to reflect on the extreme pride our organization and employees across the globe have shown. Whether it is picking up trash at the Jumeirah Umm Suqeim Public Beach Clean-up in the Middle East or removing harmful NOx & VOCs from different manufacturing processes in Dallas, TX, CECO demonstrates our commitment to protecting the ...
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What can a Screening Bucket do ?
It Might be Quicker to tell you What it can’t do Being a bucket it is an attachment that can enhance your digger to became a mobile screening plant, offering the flexibility to sift material as need arise on site, minimising waste. Therefore, avoiding back and forth with trucks reduces processing time, so less costs also means more time available. But advantages are not only economically ...
By MB Crusher
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A method for Cleaning foreshores case study
Introduction During a recent incident in the UK, it was important that the ecological disturbance in respect to natural vegetation and wildlife should be disturbed as little as possible. For this reason, no equipment of any description was allowed to be used. More than 20, 000 litres of oil was estimated to have made landfall on this foreshore. We decided that it would be sufficient to unroll ...
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Top 5 Beach Cleaner Cost & Maintenance Questions You Should be Asking
A primary consideration for most beach cleaner purchasers is how much the machine will cost—not only in the initial purchase, but also overtime. A beach cleaner's ability to function optimally with minimal maintenance hours and costs is key to getting the job done for less. In order to help you know the right questions to ask. we've laid out the top five beach cleaner cost and maintenance ...
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River Survey Bude Cornwall UK - Case Study
STS were invited by the UK Environment Agency to conduct a survey of a small river running onto one of the bathing beaches at Bude Cornwall. The area is renowned for its clean beaches and is very popular with both families and surfers alike. There were therefore two driving factors behind ensuring that the water discharging to the beach was clean. Firstly that it met the required regulations ...
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Environmental Focus - Oil Spill Response Segment Name Changed into EnviRo-Clean
For many years, our well-known oil spill response equipment has been marketed under the segment name Oil Spill Response. However, due to our strong commitment in relation to removal of plastic waste and marine debris from rivers and tributaries and removal of seaweed from beaches, we want to position ourselves as a strong environmentally conscious partner showing consideration for our ...
By DESMI A/S
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Red Tide Cleanup with Beach Cleaners
While the term, "Red Tide" may elicit an image of blood in the water, the coloration is due to an overabundance of microscopic algae, Karenia brevis. Besides discoloring the water, it releases a toxin that paralyzes fish, prevents them from being able to breath, and kills them. These dead fish then wash up on shore. Additionally, by consuming too much oxygen from the water, many forms of sea life ...
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Marine litter – a growing threat worldwide
Increasing amounts of litter are ending up in the world’s oceans and harming the health of ecosystems, killing animals when they become trapped or swallow the litter. Human health is also at risk, as plastics may break down into smaller pieces that may subsequently end up in our food. These are just a few of the problems emerging from the waste collecting in our seas. There are now vast ...
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Rebuilding the Caribbean for Climate Resilience
In 2017, Hurricane Irma passed over the island of Barbuda, destroying 90% of its infrastructure. In the wake of 2017 hurricanes, the World Bank has stressed looking for ways to lessen potential devastation from future storms In 2017, when Hurricane Irma, the strongest Atlantic hurricane on record, pummeled the island of Barbuda with 185 mph winds for 37 hours, it didn’t leave much ...
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MB Crusher, to each yard its screener
Some people use it to select the material directly on site and reuse it, some others for regenerating foundry waste. There are companies that seek to sift natural material under water and to clean landfills and beaches, some to remove impurities and to obtain good soil for gardens. Not to mention the use in piping work aqueducts, sewers, roads and tunnels: there are no limits to the use of ...
By MB Crusher
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Newsletter September 2016
For over 25 years now Microbe Inotech Labs has been serving the community. Providing excellence in Microbiology. Today Microbe Inotech Labs is looking forward to providing even more services and capabilities with the acquisition of equipment that will help us meet your needs even better. Whether your needs are simple testing or are complex we can provide you with the results you need to move ...
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25% less setup and measurement time through optical metrology
Winter sports enthusiasts are certainly already familiar with it. After all, it is hard to imagine any winter sports field without the red PistenBully from Kässbohrer, which ensures that slopes and cross-country ski trails are safe to traverse. But how are the vehicles constructed, and what systems are used for quality control and the measurement of components? In the PistenBully family, ...
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Oldcastle Helps Clean-Up Santa Monica with Panel Vault Cistern - Case study
Project Overview Surf’s up and clean in Southern California thanks to Oldcastle and the Santa Monica “Clean Beaches” stormwater cistern. Located at the base of the world-famous Santa Monica Pier, the Deauville basin will be used to harvest up to 1.6 million gallons of stormwater runoff from the pier’s downtown drainage basin. The harvested runoff will then be diverted ...
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The wreck of the MV Rena – culture, risk and resilience in IA
The wreck of the MV Rena and the subsequent resource consent processes, to enable the dumping and discharging of contaminants through abandoning the remnants of the wreck, created considerable division in the Bay of Plenty region, especially within iwi. Much of this conflict related to the nature of the effects, their monitoring and mitigation. The Rena case provides useful lessons for the impact ...
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Annual Swim – “Newport Sharkfest”
An article popped up on our radar by Newport This Week. It is about Clean Ocean Access‘ upcoming annual swim that has been dubbed” Swim to Skim”, which raises awareness of the Marina Trash Skimmer’srole of improved water quality. We at Marina Accessories are excited to see new ways to bring awareness to marine debris and the Marina Trash Skimmer. Thank you Newport This ...
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Large Amount of Untapped Energy in Aquatic Plants Case Study
How do we make better use of surplus aquatic plants in the form of unwanted seaweed on our beaches and weed cuttings from streams and lakes? Aikan A/S has received support from the Danish Government’s EUDP program to examine the possible use of surplus aquatic plants as feedstock for the production of methane and certified compost, which can be used as fertilizer. Most of the time, yard ...
By Aikan A/S
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Partnering in watershed management and community engagement case study
Challenge: A Fortune 100 company requested our ecological expertise and support for its watershed management program and its pledge to replenish water used in production of its products back to nature and communities in the U.S. and Canada. Antea Group's assistance includes source water protection, community watershed partnerships, and technical support for other water resource initiatives to ...
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