Simon Judd and I hosted a webinar with an extended Q&A session on the issue of membranes and micropollutants a couple of weeks ago (see The MBR Site | Membrane technology in controlling micropollutants and…). As always in events like […]
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Persistence is a virtue, right?
Two major industrial trends have cast a long shadow over the environment during my working lifetime. The first was the idea of built-in obsolescence which developed in the 1970s. More recently, this has been dubbed premature obsolescence. After the MAD […]
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Dr Graeme Pearce talks to Antoine Walter about the development of membrane bioreactors to treat waste water, the impact of MBRs in the water treatment market and their significance in a world where the stress on water supplies is increasing. […]
Continue readingTrumping Regulations?
In June 2017, I met someone from the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) at a conference. She seemed somewhat bemused at the changes that were starting to be made at her agency following Trump’s election. Political ructions had happened plenty […]
Continue readingChallenging our assumptions
Covid is continuing to dominate our lives. I decided after the 1st UK lockdown that there was going to be a fundamental shift in teaching and it was not going to be possible to have face to face workshops any […]
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