11 May 2022
UK retailer Boots has vowed to stop selling all wet wipes that contain plastic fibres by the end of the year, Sky News reported. The pharmacy chain is one of the biggest sellers of wet wipes in the country, with more than 140 different brands stocked across skincare, baby, tissue and health care categories. After selling […]
11 May 2022
Last week we covered CIWEM’s new report ‘River water quality and storm overflows – a systems approach to maximising improvement’. From that report, CIWEM director of policy Alastair Chisholm sets out ten big picture asks on overflows: Water companies to deploy a hierarchy of catchment-wide measures to reduce storm overflows, prioritising nature-based solutions and active […]
11 May 2022
The Environment Agency has published their responses to both the Nature Recovery Green Paper & Environment Act-Environmental Targets consultations. Nature Recovery Green Paper Some of the key issues in the Green paper for the Environment Agency for the water and marine environment include the following, amongst others: Protecting wildlife sites – on land and at […]
10 May 2022
Welsh National Marine Plan Monitoring and Reporting 2nd User Survey Welsh National Marine Plan – we want your views The Welsh National Marine Plan (WNMP) was published in November 2019 and sets out the Welsh Government’s marine planning policy for the sustainable development of Wales’ marine plan area. Public authorities are […]
10 May 2022
A new study on the future of offshore wind has illustrated the scale of potential of the UK seas for future deployment and is helping to understand and address how we best manage the various demands on our marine environment. The Future Offshore Wind Scenarios (FOWS) project is intended to support the future development of […]
10 May 2022
The importance of construction materials sourced from the sea is highlighted in a new sustainability report from the British Marine Aggregate Producers Association (BMAPA). The BMAPA publication sets out the latest sustainable development data (2020/21) for the marine aggregates industry across seven priority areas including resource use, climate change and energy, and the natural environment. More than […]
10 May 2022
The next steps in reforming Scotland’s aquaculture regulatory system have been outlined by the Rural Affairs Secretary Mairi Gougeon. Speaking at an industry sector conference in Aviemore, Ms Gougeon announced the formation of a consenting task group to make rapid progress on streamlining the aquaculture consenting system. This includes making a change to the marine […]
10 May 2022
UN-Habitat, the Busan Metropolitan City of the Republic of Korea, and OCEANIX have unveiled the design of the world’s first prototype sustainable floating city. OCEANIX Busan aims to provide breakthrough technology for coastal cities facing severe land shortages that are compounded by climatic threats. The challenge is massive: two out of every five people in […]
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