The polluter pays, chemical spills, massive fines and lithium battery recycling
Polluters pay, chemical spills, huge fines and lithium battery recycling. When a factory suffers two nasty incidents in just a few months, you have to ask what they’re doing wrong.. and what they’re doing to put it right. Lithium battery waste fires might soon be a thing of the past. And it looks like today’s […]
Huge Stoke fine, pesticides and antibiotics, Yorkshire Water fail
As usual this week sees a number of serious water pollution incidents reported online. Not a week goes by without at least one incident. Here’s the latest water pollution prevention and spill containment news. Fuerst Day Lawson donates £150,000 to The Trent Rivers Trust A pollution incident between July and September 2015 saw polluting matter entering […]
No Deal Brexit waste advice, Jersey Water fail, Severn & Trent fined again
No Deal Brexit waste advice, Jersey Water fail, Severn & Trent fined again. Here is the water pollution prevention news. Will industrial pollution be affected by a no-deal Brexit? The government thinks so, and they’re busy recommending the waste industry reviews its contingency plans. Jersey says its water is fine, but local people beg to […]
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 […]
Sandfield Penstock Solutions featured in Foundry Trade Journal
Sandfield Penstock Solutions were very happy to be featured in this months Foundry Trade Journal. They did a really good job of telling our story which is why I am posting it here. this is clearly foundry focused but the issues discussed are pretty common across most businesses. Reproduced with thanks to Foundry Trade Journal. […]
Trump on Water Pollution, Thames Water’s Walk of Shame, Fast Fashion Must Pay
You might be surprised by the sheer number of water pollution incidents we see every single week in the UK. Sometimes it’s down to industrial accidents, sometimes leaks, industrial spills and floods. You might also be surprised how tough the punishments issued by The Environment Agency are, including fines, business closures, the removal of environmental […]
Farm Spill Containment Failure, Airport PFOS Pollution, Construction Site Woes.
The past couple of weeks have seen the usual run of news stories about water pollution, commercial fire contamination and environmental pollution. In a world where the polluter pays, where those business that cause water pollution face clean up costs and fines as well as the huge reputation costs, it’s absolutely critical that you are […]
A Blue Canal, Better Hospital Waste Management, Thames Water Shamed.
It’s rare to see a week go by without some form of water pollution scandal or other being reported in the news. It just goes to show how very vulnerable businesses are to it. The stories we’ve covered this time around illustrate how tricky it can be to find out what happened, identify the culprit, […]
