Day: 24 May 2002

Severn Trent Services Chooses Watson-Marlow Bredel Pumps For Reliable On-Line Sampling

Reliability under all operational conditions and the ability to deliver a consistent, volumetrically accurate sample over long periods were the key factors when Severn Trent Services turned to Watson-Marlow Bredel peristaltic pumps for the delivery of samples to their range of on-line water quality monitors.

Meacher supports plastic bag tax

Environment Minister Michael Meacher has declared that he is in favour of a new tax on plastic carrier bags, following the success of a scheme in Ireland.

South Africa: Find your niche

UK environmental businesses would do well to consider South Africa as a market for products and services, but with the strong Pound and weak Rand, and a government focus on boosting employment among resident black people, companies should concentrate on building relationships with local companies, and selling high-value products or to niche markets.

New green guidelines for sustainable industry

Industrial processing plants are now armed to improve environmental performance with a new set of guidelines for measuring sustainability.

The environment – does corporate Britain really care?

Environmental performance by corporate Britain is a bit like teenage sex – there’s a lot of talk about it, and not much else, says Environment Agency Chief Executive Baroness Young.

Business Briefs: emission credits, Shanghai water, and pellets for CHP

In this weeks European Business Briefs, Germany receives a new diesel fuel for which companies can claim carbon credits, a French water company wins a 50-year contract for managing water services in Shanghai, and a Swedish company has received an order for a drying system for wood fuel for CHP.

Great savings to be made from outsourcing industrial water services

Major cost savings can be made from the outsourcing of industrial water services, although there remains a low level of customer awareness of the potential benefits. The largely supplier-controlled domain is currently worth $590 million of European annual sales and is predicted to rise to $1.5 billion by 2008.

Business Briefs: desalination, renewable energy, a revolutionary landfill liner, and fuel cells

In this week’s international Business Briefs, the largest seawater reverse osmosis desalination plant in the western hemisphere, a boom for renewable energy companies, a revolutionary self-monitoring landfill liner is launched, and there is a new fuel cell patent.

US Senate panel OKs Water Investment Act

The US Senate’s Environment and Public Works Committee has approved the new Water Investment Act, which proposes billions of dollars in funding, in various ways, for safe drinking water projects, wastewater facility improvements, and aid to small communities in the US.

ECAs cause social and environmental disruption, says group

Government-funded Export Credit Agencies (ECAs) in many industrialised nations are guilty of destroying the environment, contributing to human rights violations and increasing poverty through their funding of projects in developing countries, according to a report from environmental activist group Pacific Environment. However, some agencies are bringing in their own reforms.

Is there a future for the global environment?

Imagine if you will a world growing ever more crowded with resource-hungry humans. Add to that dwindling clean water supplies, forest clearance, poisoning and loss of fertile agricultural soils and depletion of one third of available fish stocks, but an increase in national parks, and a reduction of ozone-depleting substances. This is the state of the world today compared to 30 years ago, according to the United Nations Environment Programme’s (UNEP) ground breaking Global Environment Outlook-3 (GEO-3) report.

Europe’s environment makes patchy recovery

Greenhouse gas and other air pollutant emissions are down, waste is increasing – but at a slower rate than the economy, and the introduction of many new sewage treatment plants is cutting polluting discharges to rivers and other water bodies, according to the European Environment Agency’s latest report on the state of the environment. However, pressure is increasing on many natural resources, such as land and fisheries.

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