A question that the European Commission was trying to answer in the release of their ‘Future Brief: nanoplastics: state of knowledge and environmental and human health impacts -Issue 27‘ . Whilst there has been some […]
Wondering whether you would like a geoscience/ geo-engineering career or perhaps you are thinking about a change in career. Find out more here with links to interviews and talks about different opportunities to work in […]
You may think from the above statement is only of passing interest but actually operating illegally could be as simple as not being compliant with the conditions which apply to a waste exemption or not […]
Did you know peatland in England provides 70 per cent of the country’s drinking water and stores more than 3.2 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide? Covering 11% of the country they also provide key bird […]
DEFRA on 30 March 2017 updated their online guidance on their code for producing, supplying and using sewage sludge on farmland. From a land quality perspective the key changes was to add “The increased permissible […]
Earlier this month the Environment Agency drew attention to the fact that with the new standard rules permits launched in January 2017 (applicable to existing permits from April – see previous GEMs posting at https://geoenvmatters.com/updated_standard-rule-permits-no-4-5-and-17-apply-to-existing-permits-from-6-april-2017/), […]
Yes its that time again – the call for abstracts for the 14th International AquaConSoil Conference has gone out. The conference will focus on the sustainable use and management of soil, sediment and water resources […]
Quality protocols (QPs) explain when a waste derived material can be regarded as a non-waste product and no longer subject to waste controls. On 1 September 2016 the following paragraph was added to the Guidance […]
……for those standard rule permits associated with: Landspreading and digestate storage; deposit for recovery; soil transfer, treatment and recovery. These changes are in response to Environment Agency Consultation No14 which ran from 20 December 2014 […]
…..And when does a waste cease to be a waste? Such simple questions to ask but often challenging to answer. There is an inherent conflict in waste managment legislation where on one hand there is […]