Dust Explosions

by Jo Williams | May 8, 2018 | General, News

Dust explosions are fortunately rare, but also devastating. To guard against them, it is important to fully understand the chemical reactions behind them. Fires and explosions in industrial processes can be devastating, with incidents often resulting in injury or...

AMEML Training – March/April 2018

by Jo Williams | Apr 30, 2018 | General, News

AM Environmental pride ourselves in providing our staff with training to ensure they are fully up to date with all the current legislation especially in light of the ever changing rules with regard to waste, recycling and environmental issues, which includes the...

National DNA Day

by Jo Williams | Apr 25, 2018 | General, News

National DNA Day is a holiday celebrated on April 25th. It commemorates the day in 1953 when James Watson, Francis Crick, Maurice Wilkins, Rosalind Franklin, and colleagues published papers in the journal ‘Nature’ on the structure of DNA. In the United States, DNA Day...

The First Chemical Database – Gmelin’s Handbook

by Jo Williams | Apr 24, 2018 | General, News

It has been over 200 years since the German Chemist, Leopold Gmelin, first published his handbook – Gmelin released the Handbook of theoretical chemistry, which was continued as the Gmelin Handbook of Inorganic Chemistry until 1997 in about 800 volumes by the Gmelin...

April 22 is Earth Day

by Jo Williams | Apr 20, 2018 | General, News

This year’s campaign is to End Plastic Pollution. From poisoning and injuring marine life to disrupting human hormones, from littering our beaches and landscapes to clogging our waste streams and landfills, the exponential growth of plastics is now threatening the...