Ineos To Purchase BP’s Petrochemicals Arm For ‘$5 billion’
Ineos extends its “interest in acetyls” and adds a “leading aromatics business”.
Pollution
Germany Introduces The First Ever Train To Run On 100% Hydrogen
The hydrogen powered trains of Germany seem to be greener alternatives to diesel emissions generated from the other trains.
Under ‘Plastic Pact’, Companies Responsible For 80% Plastic Waste Of Britain Pledge To Curb Plastic Use
Damaging environmental effect of plastic waste coerces the food and beverage industry of Britain to take joint steps to set things right.
U.K. Has Plans Of Introducing ‘Deposit Return Scheme’ On Plastic Bottle Purchase
New plans up British government’s sleeves to reduce plastic waste pollutants especially in the form of empty plastic bottles after they are discarded by the consumers.
Volkswagen Cars Are Equipped With ‘Pollution Cheating Device’
The automakers have disclosed that the amount of pollution cheating scandal of Volkswagen can involve as many as eleven million cars.
Industrial Firms Of China Are Being Shifted To Hebei To Fight Pollution
The government to China plans on curbing pollution in the capital Beijing by relocation industrial firms, whereby it will issue standard guidelines of pollution measurement laws which will be applicable throughout the country.
Microelectronics industry in Taiwan to be driven by new environmental laws
For decades, Taiwan has been struggling with a potentially disastrous water situation. The boom in the microelectronics sector has not improved the pollution threat, and the country, which alternates between droughts and floods, flirts with dangerous water contamination levels, when water supplies run low. A new set of environmental laws in Taiwan is to change matters and reduce the impact of the industry on the streams and rivers.
Australia mining coal at the cost of its environment
It pollutes everything that it comes in contact with. Coal is one dirty polluting industry and yet Australia chooses to pour millions into it at the cost of the health of its citizens, agriculture and at the cost of the environment.
Natural vs Synthetic dyes – the paradox of sustainability
Although natural dyes have a smaller pollution footprint, they are expensive to grow and are not economical for large scale manufacturing, Synthetic dyes on the other hand make more economical sense but have a larger pollution footprint. With the world gone “consumption-mad”, untreated chemicals discharges in local water bodies are increasing their pollution levels. Where lies the answer in such a scenario?
