Day: 1 February 2002

PCI-Water to Supply Water Treatment Plant to Schering Plough (Avondale) Company in County Wicklow

PCI-Water has broken new ground by winning a contract to supply the first "Fyne" membrane water treatment plant to be installed in the Republic of Ireland. Featuring tubular nanofiltration membranes, the Fyne system will supply up to 480m³/24hrs of portable-quality water to Schering Plough (Avondale) Company's pharmaceutical manufacturing facility at Rathdrum, Co.Wicklow.

Remediation services offer all-round solutions in world-wide market to clean up polluted sites

The remediation of derelict and contaminated brownfield sites is at the top of the Government's agenda in for the regeneration of the nation's vast legacy of polluted sites. As the new regime requiring the identification and treatment of contaminated land comes into play, this special LAWE feature reports on technical advances that offer new options for remediation and gives examples of good practice in action and looks at the role of specialist in this often complex field.

High-speed shredder boosts composting capacity

The impressive growth of Muncipal Hire Services (MHS); built on identifying and serving potential growth areas across the specialist market is reflected in Managing Director Ian Handley's belief that the recycling market will become a "self-standing, high-growth sector over the next 24 months."

High-speed shredder boosts composting capacity

Cheshire-based CRJ Services Ltd has significantly increased its composting capacity with the purchase recently of the latest AK430 Profi high-speed shredder from Doppstadt (UK) Ltd.

Waste management and recycling offer major benefits in transport infrastructure

Guidance on recycling in transport infrastructure is provided in a new document produced by TRL Limited. Much has been achieved to remove obstacles to recycling, but some issues still need to be addressed. Dr Murray Reid of TRL Limited reviews progress on the road to recycling

Specialists play key role in brownfield development

Craig Sillars, Managing Director of Churngold Remediation Ltd, identifies short-term concerns over brownfield development and puts the case for identifying specialist remediation contractors capable of addressing the most complex remediation issues.

Specialists play key role in brownfield development

Craig Sillars, Managing Director of Churngold Remediation Ltd, identifies short-term concerns over brownfield development and puts the case for identifying specialist remediation contractors capable of addressing the most complex remediation issues.

Wartime legacy unearthed in Harwell clean up

A massive clean up operation is under way at the Southern Storage Area at the UKAEA's Harwell site. This case study reports on how the final phase of one of the country's most challenging land remediation programmes is being carried out on a site which was a wartime RAF base

Masters: a flexible approach

A recent surge in demand for environmental education has dramatically expanded the number of courses available and revolutionised the ways to study them: part-time, distance learning, interactive... Helen Sloman, University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST) Programme development officer, explores the possibilities.

Tramps in your toilet? – waste and consumption

'Waste avoidance', properly applied, will in almost any circumstances yield significant savings on energy and other consumables with little or no expenditure. Vilnis Vesma, senior consultant at energy specialist NIFES Consulting Group, introduces an unintrusive way of addressing the wasteful over-consumption of resources.

EMS implemented at government office

The Green Minister for the Chancellor's Departments and Financial Secretary of the Treasury, Paul Boateng MP, visited the Office for National Statistics (ONS) at Titchfield to present ONS with a ISO 14001 certificate for implementing an environmental management system (EMS). ONS is the first government department to use a web-based system to achieve ISO 14001, the internationally recognised standard for EMS.

EMS – a fitting assessment

Environmental management should not be a bolt-on bureaucracy. Performance-based EMS assessment, according to David Turberfield, URS Verification, takes the pressure off documentation and focuses on practical measures to combat environmental risk.

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