Post-Brexit environmental threats, illegal waste, and Scottish dry cleaning success
Did you know 80% of the UK’s environmental laws come from the EU? Did you realise stakeholders haven’t been properly engaged in transferring EU environmental laws into UK statute? One man gets fined for running three filthy, illegal waste sites. And, in Scotland, the dry cleaning industry has finally been brought under better environmental control. […]
Industrial fires, firewater containment and plastic bead pollution.
Industrial fires don’t just send smoke and fumes into the air and burn whatever they come across. Tackling a fire often means using huge amounts of water, and that water has to go somewhere. It often ends up causing just as much damage as the fire itself, if not more. Now the UK’s Environment Agency […]
What is firewater?
What is Firewater? If you look up Firewater in the dictionary you will learn that it is a strong alcoholic drink. That isn’t the kind of firewater that we are concerned with in spill containment. In spill containment terms firewater refers to the potentially millions of litres of water or foam that are discharged to […]
