Day: 1 December 1999

What’s over the horizon?

Big issues and big questions are facing the environmental world as Millennium 2000 dawns. This special LAWE Millennium 2000 feature spotlights the key themes facing environmentalists, government and local communities as the world seeks solutions in a new century and a new era.

Fly swarm control at Burton-on-Trent STW

Severn Trent has taken a new approach to fly control at Clay Mills STW in Staffordshire. The plant, which serves Burton-on-Trent, uses biological filters to treat sewage with a high proportion of brewery waste.

Could combined UV and ozone be the future of odour control?

Hanovia has developed an odour control system based on ozonation and UV treatment. Following a successful installation in Guernsey, wider application looks likely as the market for compact odour control systems expands.

What’s over the horizon?

Big issues and big questions are facing the environmental world as Millennium 2000 dawns. This special LAWE Millennium 2000 feature spotlights the key themes facing environmentalists, government and local communities as the world seeks solutions in a new century and a new era.

Twin-engined sweepers face threat from environmental legislation

In a special contribution to LAWE's Millennium 2000 Preview Issue, Roger Hoadley, the founder and Managing Director of Scarab, sets out his view on the potential impact of Government legislation on the design of road sweepers.

Looking over the horizon to new concepts in street sweeper design & engineering

The equipment used to keep our streets clean has evolved significantly over the last 10 years to become the cleanest, quietest and most efficient machinery anywhere in the world. The world¹s largest manufacturer, Johnston Engineering, based in the UK, looks into the crystal ball to what could develop within the sector over the next 10 years.

Individual industry

Just behind the environmental manager is a vast array of people - supervisers, team leaders, technicians, or quality or H&S managers - all of whom would be involved in implementing an environmental management system. Dr Charlie Clutterbuck, Groundwork Blackburn, asks: Why aren't they used more?

Simultaneous spectrum speciation

As a measure of organic compounds, Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectrometry has its origins firmly rooted in laboratory analysis. Cameron Stathers and Colin Blackmore, ETI Group Ltd, consider its transferral to the industrial environment.

Compliance up in the air?

Paul Sheridan and Verity Kidd of Cameron McKenna offer an initial aid to navigating the legislative landscape of air pollution.

Listen very carefully

Under IPPC, provisions for the management and control of noise are soon to be adopted, in a similar manner to other environmental pollutants - UK regulations are under construction. Mick Jenkins, Acoustic Technology Ltd, considers the integration of noise within an Environmental Management System.

When the Levy breaks

The CBI believes that negotiated agreements should be made available to as wide a spectrum of the business sector as is feasible, rather than being limited to those sites covered by IPPC. In return, participating sectors should receive relief from the Levy on a banded sliding scale related to factors such as their initial exposure to it. There are several reasons for this:

Speak softly, carry a big stick

Once upon a time they were "voluntary". Then they became "binding voluntary". Now they are being described as "negotiated". Andrew Warren, director of the Association for the Conservation of Energy, on industrial energy efficiency, tax, and the persuasiveness of Government.

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