Graham Merrington is a soil chemist with over 15 years experience of terrestrial risk assessment, waste regulation, and assessment of the fate, behaviour and effects of metals and other inorganic contaminants in the environment.
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European Commission Workshop on Metal Bioavailability and the Water Framework Directive – June 21st
The European Commission is sponsoring a workshop on June the 21st in Brussels on implementing bioavailability-based approaches for metal EQS compliance under the Water Framework Directive. wca environment staff (Adam Peters, Bruce Brown and myself) will be supporting the UK delegation at the meeting. We will be presenting the findings of projects completed for the Environment Agency and Defra that focused on the use of bioavailability-based approaches to fulfil regulatory requirements.
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Soil Quality Standards for Trace Elements: Derivation, Implementation, and Interpretation
In 2008 a Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry-sponsored Technical Workshop was held in Sydney, Australia. The book of the deliberations from this workshop has now been published.
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wca environment at SETAC Europe in Seville
wca environment will once again be heading to SETAC Europe this year, which is hosted in Seville from the 23rd to the 27th of May.
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Regulatory Limits for Trace Elements in Soils
Albania and I have just had a chapter published on Regulatory Limits for Trace Elements in soils.
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Use of compost-like output from mechanical-biological treatment (MBT) plants
Dawn and I recently completed a review for the Environment Agency on compost-like outputs from MBT plants (follow this link for the full report). The main objectives of this review were to describe current EU practice for the production, regulation and use of compost-like outputs from MBT plants, with specific reference to their application to land. A further objective was to assess national differences in approaches across the EU and to attempt to establish why such differences exist.
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Metals risk assessment at SETAC 2009
Today’s key sessions on environmental risk assessment included an outline of the guidance document on setting EQS for metals for the Water Framework Directive and how regulators are accounting for bioavailability in compliance assessment. Excel-based tools for assessing risks to the terrestrial environment were also presented. These tools incorporate the latest understanding of metals fate [...]
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wca environment at SETAC Goteborg 2009
WCA Environment will be at the SETAC Europe Goteborg Meeting next week in Sweden (31 May to 4th of June). If you’re going to be there drop by our stand and have a chat. We’ll also be chairing some of the sessions and posting our thoughts on the meeting on the blog. Details below: Adam [...]
