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Urgent action is needed to make the decommissioning of thousands of offshore structures and ships safer argues Professor Susan Gourvenec,

SRTI publishes its 2021 progress report with 29 signatories The Ship Recycling Transparency Initiative (SRTI) today launches its annual progress report, compiling disclosure information from twelve shipowners sharing their ship recycling policies and practices and providing updates on progress against the initiative. Entering its third year, the SRTI has launched its first expansion of the disclosure questionnaire to reflect industry developments and ensure that shipowners are disclosing data against a set of robust, relevant questions, raising awareness of the current state of responsible sh...

Study calls for urgent action to address the risks posed by unsafe disposal practices A major global study of what happens to consumer goods and other engineered products at the end of their useful life has found widespread use of unsafe management and disposal practices and calls for urgent action to address the risks posed to human life and health. The Engineering X Global Review on Safer End of Engineered Life warns that the biggest threat is from the open burning of solid waste which is damaging the health of "tens of millions" of people worldwide but a lack of data means that the true sc...