Krill industry joins forces to protect penguins in Antarctica
An NGO-industry collaboration to protect the Antarctic Ocean today announces a big step forward with a year-round permanent closure of a 4 500km2 area of ocean around Hope Bay in the northern Antarctic Peninsula. The move is supported by the Association of Responsible Krill harvesting companies (ARK) and an NGO coalition of Greenpeace, Pew, WWF and Oceanites.
This major closure supported by the largest krill fishing companies will see nearly all krill companies operating in the Antarctic expanding the voluntary restricted zones that went into effect in 2018. This step would secure the
Starting in the end of December 2020, biowaste in the Helsinki region will be turned into local biogas following the completion of Gasum’s biowaste transfer station in the Vantaa district of Viinikkala. The biowaste transfer station has the capacity to receive 34,000 tonnes of solid and sludge biowaste a year. Gasum’s biogas plants will process the biowaste into enough biogas for the tanks of around 2,000 gas vehicles and into recycled fertilizers for the use of farmers. The biowaste transfer station will help Gasum, in partnership with other operators, to promote the implementation of the
