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EU Digital Product Passports aim to track items through the product life-cycle

Envirotec Magazine

The unprecedented quantity of Extended Producer Responsibility legislation that has been greenlighted so far this year – across Europe – no doubt signals a new level of environmental awareness on a governmental, rather than merely social level. Green Deal legislation has proven most adaptable to the times.

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Planet Textiles 2023: Industry Stakeholders Agree on Need To Accelerate Collective Action and Collaboration to Future-Proof Global Supply Chains

3BL Media

On circularity, he highlighted the criteria established for each product, supplier and technology that the company follows in order to label their products with the responsible living tag. Van der Weerd’s keynote focused on the need to establish common ground to drive effective decarbonization efforts.

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Sensing evolution

Envirotec Magazine

The increasing prevalence of air quality monitoring in legislation, as well as with respect to corporate/social responsibility is driving the transition of air quality monitoring from a “nice to have” to a firmer commercial proposition. target to 10 µg/m3 by 2040. and PM10, in addition to temperature and humidity.

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IoT news of the week for April 8, 2022

Stacey Higginbotham

The legislation also calls for some cybersecurity best practices such as requiring a software bill of materials and coordinated vulnerability disclosure plan. I’d like to see this pass because right now, many medical device vendors aren’t as active about patching security flaws as I or the industry would like. ( HR 7048 ).

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Nature-based Solutions “Good Value for Money” – UN 

Chris Hall

As well as initiatives in France and Colombia, the report cites the use of a budget tagging tool in the UK, which calculated that 95% of its autumn 2021 budget was nature-neutral. . Clear and predictable” revenues .

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Mercurial matter: Puzzling out PFAS removal in landfill

Envirotec Magazine

The tag “forever chemicals” is clearly very appropriate for a class of synthetic compounds whose unusual molecular structure, including the carbon-fluorine (C-F) bond (considered one of the strongest found in organic chemistry), appears to offer little scope for any thermal or other degradation at all, so they endure permanently.

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REDEEMing pumping stations for eels

Envirotec Magazine

As a result the UK has specific legislation, the Eels (England and Wales) Regulations 2009, which includes screening intakes and providing passage for eels. Of the acoustic tagged eels, 80.8% Fish and eels can be entrained in pumping stations, especially adult silver eels during their downstream spawning migration.