Everything we eat needs water to grow. In July 2015 the project on the sustainable use of water in Europe is completed. Theory and practice on water use and member organizations waterfootprint is examined. The working group has examined various aspects of “water and sustainability” across the board by examining the causes of the current water…
Carbon monoxide in atmosphere: threshold from 50 to 250 mg/Nmc
Carbon monoxide in the atmosphere: threshold value changed from 50 to 250 mg / Nmc, applicable for an asphalt production plants and established by a Services Conference in Tuscany, in response to a “particular” application of Decree February 5, 1998 concerning to the recovery of road milled 17.03.02 CER “at cold temperature.” Generally the existing asphalt production…
Polluter pays, not the owner? not responsible!
Accordingly, whereas one line of authority — based, inter alia, on the precautionary principle, the principle that preventive action should be taken and the ‘polluter pays’ principle, all of which are specific to EU law — considers the owner to be under an obligation to adopt emergency safety measures and rehabilitation measures even where that…
Direttiva IED e DM 272/2014 e verifica di qualità del suolo e sottosuolo
La riduzione degli impatti ambientali è obiettivo della Direttiva EU IED 2010/75: il DM 272/14 impegna le aziende AIA alla verifica del suolo e sottosuolo. Il 29 aprile 2015 il Corso ARS a Milano esaminerà la Industrial Emission Directive ed il D.M. 272/2014 per supportare le azioni dei siti industriali che dispongono di una Autorizzazione Integrata Ambientale…
Green certification (REC): buying medieval indulgences?
Geologists can not predict earthquakes, but they can describe the geological cycles that regulate the CO2 balance of the Planet, from its origins to today and they can predict and account the excess of CO2 that suffocates the Planet. Many companies have shown significant commitments on the problem of excess CO2 and invested in climate…
Surface water runoff: crime in absence of law
Surface water runoff: crime in absence of law As it flows over the land surface, stormwater picks up potential pollutants that may include sediment, nutrients (from lawn fertilizers), bacteria (from animal and human waste), pesticides (from lawn and garden chemicals), metals (from rooftops and roadways), and petroleum by-products (from leaking vehicles): the Decree 152/2006 estabilish with…
Arsenic Limit in Public Water
The cost of water in Italy is among the lowest in Europe, supports CENSIS in Issue 4 of the Diary of the Transition. It is also known that the quality of public water, despite national regulations, is very variable and locally very poor for high content of Calcium, Manganese, Iron, Vanadium, Magnesium, Selenium, Sulfates, Boron,…
Ecomondo exhibition 2014 Report on Innovation in Emilia-Romagna
Ecomondo exhibition 2014 Report on Innovation in Emilia-Romagna Ecomondo 2014 “Il Bilancio dell’eco-innovazione in Emilia-Romagna”: slide of the intervention “SmartStripping® Green and sustainable remediation” are available for download. The Report on Innovation in Emilia-Romagna has been developed to sustain the strategy of intervention planning in support of economic development and identification of possible area of…
Ecomondo 2014 – SmartStripping®: on site application and software simulation
You can download here the extended abstract and the slide of the intervention of Dott. Caridei (Ecosurvey®) at Reclaim Expo – Ecomondo 2014, 7 november, Rimini, Italy – all right reserved © – entitled: “An innovative process for groundwater green remediation by a circular air flow – on site applications, setup at bench scale and…
CSME-SARCLE 2014 – SmartStripping®: optimization of the performance by means of mathematical modelling
You can download here the abstract of the intervention of Ing. Irene Jubany at the convention “Contaminated Site Management in Europe” (CSME) – Sustainable Approaches to remediation of Contaminated Land in Europe (SARCLE) 2014, 20-22 Ottobre, Brussels, Belgio – all right reserved© – entitled: “Emission-free groundwater treatment technology (SmartStripping®). Optimization of the technology performance by…