Pollution Control

Oil spills can be disastrous, but as one pollution response operator put it “you’re damned if you do, damned if you don’t” when it comes to using dispersants.

A European port has launched a challenge to find the ideal solution for plastic pellet pollution.

The explosive growth of duckweed in British canals is causing serious damage to marine life and a sustainable solution to keeping it under control must be found, says a prominent UK waterway…

Pioneering autonomous technology is set to be demonstrated in the US to show its ability to increase the safety, response time and productivity of marine oil-spill response operations.

UK environmental risk reduction specialist Adler and Allan, is the first response organisation to be recognised under a new accreditation scheme

Trelleborg has supplied The Ocean Cleanup with seven of its floating pneumatic fenders to help rid the world’s oceans of plastic.

UK based workboat specialists Water Witch are leading designers in specialist trash retrieval and waterway cleanup craft for Ports and Marinas.

Sercel has announced that deployment of its QuietSea Passive Acoustic Monitoring (PAM) system has been extended to the UK.

An environmentalist group, Cittadini per l’Aria, has tested the air quality in Naples and has called Italy to support a Mediterranean Emission Control Area (MedECA).

The maritime authorities in Denmark have deployed a large drone with the capability of sulphur sniffing writes Dag Pike.

A new multi-role workboat from pollution control specialists Desmi is claimed to be able to shift operation mode within an hour.

Norway’s Port of Oslo is to build a fully electric working boat designed for efficient collection of waste at the water surface.

Scientists have revealed that plastic floating in the sea is costing human society hundreds if not thousands of billions of dollars every year in damaged and lost resources, with knock on effects…

Safeen, a subsidiary of Abu Dhabi Ports, has collected over 120 tons of floating sea debris in Abu Dhabi waters last year, recycling more than ten tons of the collected material.

New ‘Guidelines for the Monitoring and Assessment of Plastics Litter in the Ocean’ aims to help harmonise how scientists and others assess the scale of the marine plastic litter problem.

The Norwegian Coastal Administration (NCA) has taken delivery of a second Arctic Fox Tail mop skimmer from the SPILLRECS division of H Henriksen AS.

Torqeedo is among partners leading a new study which aims to bring Paris’ goals to improve air quality and reduce the city’s carbon footprint to the River Seine through vessel electrification.

The latest of nineteen small multi-purpose trimarans to combat German coastal oil and other pollution hazards has been handed over reports Tom Todd.

Environmental monitoring experts Ocean Scientific International Ltd (OSIL) have released a new microplastics sampler for the collection of water samples for the analysis of microplastics.