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The never-ending battle against emerging contaminants: a focus on PFAS
Feb 6, 2020
What are emerging contaminants?
Emerging contaminants are likely to be a never-ending nightmare. Why? As we develop, advance and expand our pharmaceutical prowess, create new industrial chemicals, new pesticides and herbicides, surfactants and personal care products, it becomes increasingly clear that we’re always going to be dealing with so called emerging contaminants. So, what exactly are they? Broadly speaking, they’re any synthetic... Read more »
Local Actions - Global Impact
Feb 3, 2020
ALS plays a vital role in ensuring that our water and environment is safe but in the process we generate a lot of waste materials. Our new Local Actions - Global Impact initiative is designed to allow us to continue doing what we do, while reducing our carbon footprint, our reliance on single use plastics, and our impact on both the local and global environment.
All the little things add up. It is all too easy to dismiss ideas because their impact will be seemingly negligible on the global... Read more »
RB17 Ground Gas Risk Assessment
Jan 15, 2020
Introduction
The assessment of ground gas risk can be made using the approach established in Contaminated Land: Applications in Real Environments (CL:AIRE) Research Bulletin 17 (RB17 A pragmatic approach to ground gas risk assessment). This alternative methodology involves a forensic description of made ground and determination of total organic carbon to assess the amount of degradable material present. On many low risk gassing sites it will allow gas well installation and... Read more »
