Tuesday, March 19, 2024
Concrete with sequestered CO2

Massive opportunity for concrete carbon emissions reduction

Concrete is responsible for around 8% of global CO2 emissions, so it represents enormous potential...
Buttonwood marketing team at the COP28 Conference

Buttonwood wins COP28 PR contract with Brazil

In 2023 Buttonwood Marketing was employed by the Government of Brazil to supply PR and...
CEM India

Interview: International conference on industrial emissions in India

Follow the link below to view our brief interview with Sanjeev Kanchan, Chair of CEM...

Buttonwood Marketing appointed exclusive agent for M. East media group

Buttonwood Marketing has announced that it is now the exclusive agent in the UK and...

Finnish technologies enable recovery of valuable metals from mine water

Two technology providers in Finland are developing a water treatment solution that will be able...
Gas analyser with detachable tablet

One day, all gas analysers will have detachable screens

Just because gas analyser screens have always been fixed on the front, doesn't mean that...
Storm, overflow, river, water quality, monitoring, Environment Act

Interviews shed light on river water quality impacts of the Environment Act 2021

We have interviewed some of the key players in river water quality, seeking their views...

Airly lobbies government to utilise latest technology in air quality monitoring

Serving as a reminder that air pollution causes up to 36,000 deaths every year in the UK, Clean...
PR Agency of the Year 2023

Buttonwood Marketing among finalists for: ‘PR Agency of the Year 2023’

Buttonwood Marketing has been nominated as PR Agency of the Year in the Instrumentation Excellence...
Sensors still working on Mars after ten years

Celebrating 10 years of Mars measurements

Gathering a decade of accurate measurement data is a major feat in itself, but to...
EVENT: AQE 2022

Event: AQE 2022 live in Telford (UK) 12-13 Oct.

The organisers of AQE 2022 are delighted to announce that this year’s event will take...
EVENT: WWEM 2022

Event: WWEM 2022 – Telford 12-13 October

Following last year’s hugely successful virtual event, the WWEM organisers are delighted to announce that...
Monitoring CO2 at CCS plant

Carbon Capture technology proven at Copenhagen WtE Plant

With the benefit of advanced gas analysis technology from Vaisala, Danish researchers have demonstrated that...
Environmental Monitoring at the Port of Antwerp

Environmental monitoring at one of the world’s major ports

Port of Antwerp is undertaking an impressive range of environmental initiatives that go beyond mere...
Paramo PFAS-free waterproof clothing

PFAS ‘forever chemicals’ – our article explains why it’s time for action!

If you use products such as non-stick frying pans, greaseproof packaging or waterproof clothing, you...
Breathe London air quality monitor

Breathe London Pilot Project Verifies ‘Small Sensors’

The Breathe London pilot project ran over two years from October 2018; monitoring and characterising...
HVAC transmitter

Lowering Covid risk with smart ventilation…

As countries emerge from the pandemic, it will be interesting to see what the ‘new...
Ammonia as a marine fuel

Researchers investigate ammonia as a potential fuel for marine decarbonisation

A group of academic and industrial partners have been awarded a £5.5million grant by the...
Best Sustainability Communications Campaign

Buttonwood Marketing Campaign Wins Sustainability Award

Best Sustainability Communications Campaign... Buttonwood Marketing client ADAS won the 'Best Sustainability Communications Campaign' award at...
Continusous monitoring of lithium manufacture processes

New technology is a game-changer for lithium manufacture

As global effort to fight climate change intensifies, the challenge for battery manufacturers and their...

Fast instrumentation service assures environmental accreditation

In April 2022, the Leeds based stack testing company, Alkali Environmental was awarded UKAS and...
Monitoring river catchments

The European Water Framework Directive and the role of monitoring…

The WFD has driven a wide variety of environmental improvements over the last 20 years,...
Ruminants burp greenhouse gases

Lowering greenhouse gas emissions by altering the diets of ruminant livestock…

Scientists in South East Asia have been measuring greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from goats and...
Serpentine water quality monitor

Water quality monitored continuously in Hyde Park’s Serpentine

Looking to find ways to keep improving water quality, the managers of the Royal Parks...
Carbon capture pilot plant

Carbon capture project enabled by gas analyzer

Following several abortive attempts to monitor potentially hazardous methane gas in a boiler’s emissions feeding...

Factors affecting the choice of gas or particle sensor

In recent years, the increased utilisation of low-cost sensors has significantly affected the safety and...
World Environment Day

World Environment Day – free educational resource

ADAS celebrates World Environment Day with free resource for schools... ADAS has created a free downloadable...
Ehat are you doing to fight climate change?

The key features of a Corporate Responsibility Report

Authors: Richard Laverick, Director Corporate Responsibility, ADAS Graham Meller, Consultant, Buttonwood Marketing 1. Commitment from the top It is...
Oil Pollution

Lab Analysis Demonstrates Severity of Ogoniland Pollution

Lab Analysis Demonstrates Severity of Ogoniland Pollution Scientists from a UK laboratory have analysed over 4,000...
Diesel generators

New Medium Combustion Plant Directive affects over 30,000 plants

New Medium Combustion Plant Directive affects over 30,000 plants... The AQE2018 Air Quality & Emissions Show...
Aircraft inspection

Aircraft inspection technology

Instrument rental helps Monarch avoid 'over-tooling' costs... The latest borescopes from Ashtead Technology are helping engineers at...
Drain inspection equipment

Drainage specialists prefer to rent

Equipment hire is more flexible... With a customer base spread across Beds, Bucks, Cambs, Herts &...
Methane surveyor

High-performance methane surveying tool

New high-performance methane surveying tool Ashtead Technology has launched an advanced natural gas detection system that...
Oil contamination

Environmental response in Gulf of Mexico

Rapid response to Deepwater Horizon disaster... Consultants and contracting engineers working on the Gulf of Mexico...
Protein characterisation instrument

Advances in protein characterisation benefits drug development

New analyser for membrane protein stability tests Avacta Analytical has extended the versatility of the Optim®2...
Aethalometer - Black Carbon monitor

How do you monitor Black Carbon?

Air Quality Specialist calls for Black Carbon Standard... Traditionally, ambient particulates have been measured gravimetrically according...
AQMesh air quality monitor

Air quality monitoring – market disruption

Ambient monitoring will never be the same again... It is fitting that AQE 2013 has been...
AQMesh pod in London

Air quality monitors support legal action

AQMesh highlights London's NO2 problem... Staff from Air Monitors took an AQMesh air quality monitor to...
Air quality monitoring

AQMesh pods feature in Channel 4’s Dispatches

Channel 4's Dispatches: 'Dirty Secrets: What's Really in Our Air?' On Monday 22nd February 2018, Channel...
Sadiq Khan air quality

London’s air quality made visible

New 'hyperlocal' air quality monitoring network for London London Mayor Sadiq Khan has launched a new,...
Emissions Monitoring Conference

CEM2020 Emissions Monitoring Conference

CEM emissions monitoring conference & exhibition postponed until 2-4th March 2022 Managers and operators of industrial...
CEM India

Ministerial support for Indian emissions monitoring conference

Ministerial support for Indian emissions monitoring conference Reflecting the importance of climate change and air pollution...
Underground wastewater treatment

Wastewater Treatment Gas Emissions Monitoring

Greenhouse Gas emissions monitored... Globally, little attention is paid to gaseous emissions from wastewater treatment processes....
Mobile emissions monitoring

Mobile monitoring station assesses diesel emissions

Mobile monitoring station assesses diesel emissions Researchers in Greece are using a Gasmet FTIR multiparameter gas...
Ground contamination

Gas analyser builds complete picture of contamination

Occupational health specialists from Wisconsin, USA, are utilising FTIR gas analysis technology to identify and...
Industrial hygiene investigation gas analyser

Industrial hygiene investigations

Gas analyzer builds complete picture of contamination Occupational health specialists from Wisconsin, USA, are utilising FTIR...
Testing sorbents

Innovation drives flue gas treatment

Sharing a common goal, experts in emissions monitoring and emissions abatement have formed a working...
Testing freight containers

Toxic threat from freight

After a career as a customs officer in the Netherlands, Wim van Tienen was well...
Wastewater

Wastewater Treatment Optimisation System Saves 25% of Energy Costs

In May 2010, a new real-time control (RTC) system was installed at a wastewater treatment...
West Burton Power Station

Reliable silica monitoring supports power station efficiency

West Burton B CCGT is a Combined Cycle Gas Turbine power station near Nottingham in...
Carbon Label

The role of carbon labelling in tackling climate change

The role of carbon labelling in tackling climate change Authors: Paul Smith, Carbon Footprinting and Labelling...
ICMGP Mercury Conference

Mercury conference to address global treaty implementation

The International Conference on Mercury as a Global Pollutant (#ICMGP) will take place in Edinburgh,...
Scottish Port

New monitoring network for Scottish ports

Historically, ferry masters operating off the west coast of Scotland would have to sail to...
Flood warning

Bad weather is good news for OTT Hydrometry

OTT Hydrometry, the specialist manufacturer of environmental monitoring equipment, has announced that 2015 was its...
Portsmouth Flood Alleviation

‘Smart’ flood alleviation system protects Portsmouth

Southern Water has completed a major project to reduce the risk of sewer flooding in...
Royal Parks Filming

Cloud-based monitoring system in London wins VINCI innovation award

VINCI Facilities has won an innovation award for its work in the Royal Parks using...
PEFTEC Conference

PEFTEC 2019 moves to Rotterdam

PEFTEC 2019, the 3rd International Conference and Exhibition on Petroleum, Refining and Environmental Technologies, will...
Arctic Research

Greenhouse Gas Research in the Arctic

Enormous quantities of greenhouse gases (GHG) exist within Arctic ice and frozen soils, so with...
Engine test cell

FTIR analyser further improves Intertek’s engine emissions testing capability

An advanced FTIR analyser installed at Intertek’s engine test facility in Milton Keynes is enabling...
Sapphire Utility Solutions

Drain cleaning and rehabilitation improves storm resilience in Cumbria

Sapphire Utility Solutions has been awarded a Framework Contract by Cumbria County Council for the...
Sapphire Utility Solutions

M6 Smart Motorway drainage re-lined in half the normal time

In a project designed to alleviate traffic congestion on the M6, Sapphire Utility Solutions has...
Wind farm

Residents encouraged to have their say on M1 Wind Farm

The developers of a proposed wind farm east of Roade near Northampton would like to...
Water quality monitoring pontoon

Real-time Monitoring – through swell and high water

Estuaries on the west coast of Wales represent some of the most challenging conditions for...
Investigating Climate Change in the Arctic

Climate Change research in the Arctic

A group of Arctic researchers has employed the latest monitoring technology to investigate the effects...
Monitoring borehole gases

NITRABAR research project – Nitrate pollution

Gas analyser helps reveal NITRABAR success A portable FTIR multiparameter gas analyser from Quantitech is helping...

Cycle rally highlights London’s poor air quality

Vivienne Westwood and Duffy joined a crowd of cyclists on the ‘Cleaner Air Bike Ride’...
Food supply chain

Sustainable food supply chains

In 2011, Environmental consultancy firm ADAS  conducted research into the development of sustainable food and...
Product Carbon Footprint

LRQA verifies LINPAC Product Carbon Footprint

LRQA verifies LINPAC Product Carbon Footprint Lloyd’s Register Quality Assurance (LRQA) has verified LINPAC Allibert’s ’Maxinest’...