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You really should watch the short video below 👇. It will be one minute of your time well spent! Why? Please read on! The latest round of negotiations of the proposed UN Global Plastics Treaty, INC-4, are finishing up at the moment in Ottawa, Canada. The objective is to conclude negotiations on a Treaty by the end of 2024. Pinovo was one of the early members of Business For A Plastics Treaty, a Coalition set up by World Wildlife Fund/Ellen MacArthur Foundation, that now comprises 200+ global businesses. In the Coalition we have been highlighting the importance of, and opportunity for the problem of #Microplastics in general, and #Paint Microplastics in particular, to be addressed in the proposed UN Global Plastics Treaty. Thanks to great work by Winnie Lau and Leah Mupas Segui in The Pew Charitable Trusts, and DG Environment in the EU Commission, Paint Microplastic Emissions are now firmly "on the agenda" in those Treaty negotiations. Here’s hoping 🤞 that INC-4 will keep us moving forward towards the conclusion of a UN Global Plastics Treaty. It's a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to end plastic pollution! We call on 👉 the Paint Industry to educate its customers about the risks of mismanaged Paint, and also the solutions, 👉 Paint Users to adopt measures to stop Paint Microplastic Pollution
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How do you marry productivity, operator safety and sustainability in surface treatment? Well, Pinovo and Remotion AS are leading the way, and the video below 👇 shows just how we are doing it! Over more than a decade, Remotion AS has been developing industry leading robotic solutions for a range of industrial activities including surface treatment i.e. removal of old paint and rust before repainting. On our side, over the same period, Pinovo has developed in-house, industry leading clean grit blasting technology that combines both industrial and sustainability advantages for customers. Both Pinovo and Remotion AS’s equipment are ATEX Zone 01 certified to enable us operate in explosive environments. Put the two technologies together, and you get solutions that are ideal for surface treatment on large flat surfaces across a range of industries, delivering cleaner, safer, and more cost efficient solutions for customers. And they stop Paint Microplastics to protect Ocean Health! Both Pinovo and Remotion AS continue to innovate to enhance our solutions - with new, higher productivity PiWalk tools from Pinovo, and new, smaller robots like the Proteus Safe from Remotion AS. So, why not talk to us to see how we can help you, and the Ocean?! 🤖 🌊 Follow this link to watch the video - https://www.linkedin.com/posts/erik-svenheim-6aa57070_proteussafe-ecofriendlytech-robotics-activity-7167176503938564096-C9aJ?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop More research has been published, and yet more is underway on both sides of the Atlantic about the importance of Paint as a source of Microplastic Pollution. Yes....more science confirming #PaintIsPlastic! First up, Dr. Andrew Turner at the University of Plymouth, who has published extensively on Microplastics, is the author of an article with Zaria West-Clarke, called "Contamination of Thames Estuary sediments by retroreflective glass microbeads, road marking paint fragments and anthropogenic microfibres". They found that "sediments of the inner Thames Estuary are known to be highly contaminated by chemical pollutants (including metals) but this study has shown that contamination extends to various forms of micro-debris”. It documents the presence (and variety) of road marking paint fragments in estuarine sediments in the marine environment (Thames Estuary). Link to research - 👉 https://lnkd.in/eURHaNzm In Canada, Zoie Diana, PhD is working in Prof. Chelsea Rochman’s Laboratory at the University of Toronto, with the U of T Trash Team to study the sources of paint microplastics in the environment, the extent of contamination of the St. Lawrence Seaway, and the ecological effects on residents animals. Check out their website 👉 https://lnkd.in/ewBpc9vZ This science based, data driven research really matters in the context of - the EU Green Deal objective of reducing Microplastic Emissions to the Environment by 30% by 2030, and - the UN Plastics Treaty negotiations, which will continue this month in at INC-4 in Ottawa, and which have include Microplastics in the definition of Plastic Pollution.   |
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