MP Derek Thomas asked a parliamentary question to DEFRA Minister Jo Churchill on what the department is intending to do about the pollution to soils of plastics, as outlined in the UNFAO report last year. She replied on 27 January 27: “DEFRA has commissioned an external expert organisation to look into plastic within digestate and […]
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California leads the USA in terms of environmental legislation, and its recently announced Sustainable Packaging Act shows how the state is acting in determining which packaging flows are accepted into its recycling and composting systems. This is an excellent guide for the UK to imitate. […]
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REA’s Jenny Grant gave evidence in the Parliamentary enquiry into plastic waste, highlighting the enormous burden of plastic contamination for the organics recycling industry. More on her interview here. […]
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South Korea claims to have one of the highest interception rates in the world for food waste collections, with around 95 per cent intercepted and composted and sent to AD. It is therefore no surprise that the use of compostable materials there is widespread, and not just for collections, which are mandated in compostable bags. […]
The Environment Agency has published the revised biowaste standard rules set in December. We quote from the communication sent by REA to its members. “They have added 10 new biowaste standard rules permits and generic risk assessments. They are SR2021 numbers 1 to 10 which are here. There are significant changes which the EA set […]
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BBIA member Versarien has secured £1.93 million in investment from a South Korean company, following support from Innovate UK EDGE and funding from Innovate UK. Versarien PLC became the world’s first verified graphene producer in 2019 and uses the extremely strong and highly versatile material to develop commercially viable products for sectors as diverse as […]
Recent research has discovered that sixty per cent of the particulates polluting the air in the UK are from ammonia leaking from farms. The substance is released from livestock manure and urine, as well as the overuse of synthetic nitrogen fertilisers. Once released, it drifts into cities and reacts with other air pollutants to form […]
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UKRI recently released its new and current ‘Innovate UK’ funding opportunities. They are as follows: Early ideas to improve the delivery of nucleic acid therapeutics UK registered businesses can apply for a share of up to £6 million to improve the delivery of nucleic acid therapeutics. Automotive Transformation Fund expression of interest: round 17 Registered […]
The IBioIC recently released its December funding opportunities bulletin. The opportunities are as follows: IBioIC Open Funding Calls PhD Funding Call IBioIC Open Call for 2022 PhD Projects | 12 December 2021 Two 50 per cent funded and four 80 per cent funded studentships are available via application from HEI’s across Scotland. Scottish Funding Calls […]
A recent report by the Ellen MacArthur Foundation (EMF) and the United Nations Environment Programme claims that the use of virgin plastic has ‘peaked’. However, this doesn’t represent the whole picture, David Burrows writes. He points to the difference between the 1.8 per cent reduction in virgin plastic observed over the past two years and […]
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