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Estonians invest in Bulgarian recycling factory
Envatech Baltic Service OU, a recycling company located in the Estonian city of Tallinn, is planning to build a recycling factory in Pleven, Bulgaria. The investment is valued at Euro 30 million (US$ 43 million). Expected to come on stream in 15 to 18 months, the facility will solve a significant proportion of the Pleven region’s ecological problems by recycling 25 tonnes per day of hospital, ...
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EPA investigation of Gowanus canal identifies widespread contamination, health and ecological problems; hundreds of samples find PAHs, PCBs, heavy metals and other Toxins (NY)
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has completed its investigation of the Gowanus Canal Superfund site in Brooklyn, N.Y. The investigation confirmed the widespread presence of numerous contaminants in the canal and identified the sources of contamination. The investigation also identified characteristics of the canal that will influence future plans for a cleanup. A companion human and ...
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EUR 5m for municipal solid waste management in Serbia
The EBRD is lending €5 million to the Duboko Waste Management Company to build a regional solid waste landfill that will serve more than 300,000 people in nine municipalities across central and western Serbia. Inadequate solid waste treatment is one of the biggest ecological problems in the country and solid waste management has been defined as one of the priorities of Serbia’s environmental ...
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Nitrogen pollution measures need tailoring to specific areas to ensure cost-effective results
New research has shown that policy measures in Denmark have successfully reduced total nitrogen loading to 10 estuaries by 39% in recent decades. However, to fully meet the targets of the EU Nitrates Directive and comply with the EU Water Framework Directive in a cost-effective manner, further mitigation measures must be tailored and focused to particular areas. Increased use of nitrogen in ...
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Investment Giant Takes Aim at Plastic Pollution
A new report from Morgan Stanley shows the investment giant is bullish on the power of capital markets to fight plastic pollution. Although investment options geared toward specific environmental issues like plastic pollution are still limited, a general area called “impact investing” is progressing considerably.The pool of impact targets is becoming wider due to demand — from both issuers and ...
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Environment: New EU action to protect biodiversity against problematic invasive species
The European Commission today proposed new legislation to prevent and manage the rapidly growing threat from invasive species. There are currently over 12 000 species present in Europe which are alien to the natural environment. About 15% of these are invasive and they are rapidly growing in number. The proposal is designed to respond to increasing problems caused by these invasive alien species, ...
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House panel wants deep cut in Great Lakes program
Federal programs designed to make headway on some of the Great Lakes' most longstanding ecological problems, from harbors caked with toxic sludge to the threat of an Asian carp attack, would lose about 80 percent of their funding under a spending plan approved Tuesday by a Republican-controlled U.S. House panel. The measure would hammer the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, which has enjoyed ...
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OriginWater Sets up Xiongan Subsidiary to Fully Serve National Strategy of New Area Construction
On Jan.22, the State Administration for Industry and Commerce issued the Notice on Approved Company Names, which shows that OriginWater’s joint-venture subsidiary “Xiongan OriginWater Shunze Technology Co., Ltd.” has been approved. This means that, after signing a strategic cooperation framework agreement with Xiongan New Area and taking the lead in entering Xiongan Zhongguancun ...
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Nearly All New Nanoengineered Chemicals Are Regulated by EPA Due to Potential Risks
The Environmental Protection Agency has regulated nearly all nanoengineered chemicals that it has reviewed under its new chemicals program, an EPA program manager who reviews such chemicals said Oct. 16. By contrast, the EPA's new chemicals program typically regulates only 10 percent to 15 percent of the traditional compounds it reviews, said Jim Alwood, a program manager in the EPA's Chemical ...
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A successful premiere: UrbanTec 2011
Representatives from the worlds of politics, industry, business and science emphasised the need to act together in taking on the challenges of the future Pioneers and visionary thinkers are developing new approaches to cross-sector cooperation projects The congress trade fair UrbanTec made a successful debut from 24th to 26th October 2011 in Cologne as the first separate event dedicated to ...
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Reducing stormwater damage
When an area is changing from rural to urban, city planners try to measure the impact of development on a whole host of 'quality of life' factors. What will happen to traffic patterns? Will the community need new schools? Who will provide water and sewer services, with how much capacity? These are tough questions, but they are measureable. On the other hand, the pressure of urbanization on ...
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Invasive Plant Listing
A proposed new ASTM standard will describe the criteria and procedures by which to develop an invasive plant list for a specific geographic region and will serve as a foundation for creating such lists to support building codes and related applications. WK40773, Practice for Invasive Plant Listing, is being developed by Subcommittee E60.01 on Buildings and Construction, part of ASTM International ...
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China Warns of Three Gorges Dam Catastrophe
WUHAN, Hubei, China, September 26, 2007 (ENS) - Chinese officials and experts have admitted the Three Gorges Dam project has caused an array of ecological ills, including more frequent landslides and pollution, and if preventive measures are not taken, there could be an environmental 'catastrophe.' While the dam has served as a barrier against seasonal flooding threatening the lower reaches of ...
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Japan pays high price for ‘silo’ science
Lack of scientific co-operation with other countries has cost Japan “trillions of yen” in expensive solar power because the country did not learn from the experience of other countries before rushing to install it, analysts say. This is one example they give in a report in Nature journal of how much Japan’s economy has lost through the failure of its scientists to involve ...
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Covanta Energy Joins Industry Coalition Backing E-Waste Export Limits as Bipartisan Support Continues to Grow on Capitol Hill
The Coalition For American Electronics Recycling (CAER) yesterday announced that Covanta Energy, a leading global owner and operator of energy-from-waste projects, has joined the industry drive for federal legislation to restrict export of toxic electronic waste (e-waste) from the U.S. and spur growth of the domestic recycling industry. Despite a political ...
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Man-Made Wetlands turn Wastewater into Tap Water
As murky water snakes through a man-made wetland between Dallas and Houston, its shallow ponds of lush vegetation slowly filter out phosphorous and nitrates until, a week later, the water runs clear as a creek into the area drinking supply. The 2,000-acre wetland system in Fairfield converts what is mainly treated wastewater that would otherwise flow into the Gulf of Mexico into an additional ...
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UNECE celebrates 35 years of successful cooperation for cleaner air and human well-being in the region
On this day (13 Nov, 2014) 35 years ago, 34 Governments and the European Community signed the Convention on Long-range Transboundary Air Pollution (Air Convention) out of a growing awareness that the ecological and human health problems throughout the region were caused by air pollution which did not respect borders and often originated outside of the country experiencing its adverse effects. ...
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Lovelock urges ocean climate fix
Two of Britain's leading environmental thinkers say it is time to develop a quick technical fix for climate change. Writing in the journal Nature, Science Museum head Chris Rapley and Gaia theorist James Lovelock suggest looking at boosting ocean take-up of CO2. Their idea, already being investigated by a US firm, involves huge flotillas of vertical pipes in the tropical seas. The two ...
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Protecting our rivers is a sound economic and environmental investment
Ladies and Gentlemen, good morning, Let me start by asking you a few questions. Have you ever thought of Paris without the Seine? … What would Lisbon look like if ever the Targus river dried up? ... What would have been the history of Austria, where we are today, without the Danube river? … I know it is a bit of science-fiction but I personally could not imagine my home country, ...
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Protecting our rivers is a sound economic and environmental investment
Ladies and Gentlemen, good morning, Let me start by asking you a few questions. Have you ever thought of Paris without the Seine? … What would Lisbon look like if ever the Targus river dried up? ... What would have been the history of Austria, where we are today, without the Danube river? … I know it is a bit of science-fiction but I personally could not imagine my home country, ...
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