Category: <span>Publications</span>

Green Stories for July 2025

Two more stories chosen from our Green Stories: Microbes to the Rescue anthology, equal to about 30 mins listening in the Audiobook version. The anthology is also available as a free eBook on the Resources page. This month’s selections are: Chapter 3:  A Day at Work by Sonia Heaven, Charles Banks and Sigrid Kusch-Brandt, UK  –  …

CBE JU reports on its 2024 programme

The Circular Bio-based Europe Joint Undertaking (CBE JU) has published a report on its latest achievements and progress. The report shows increased participation, growing community engagement and high demand for new funding. Over 1,700 stakeholders connected via the CBE JU networking platform, and the widening participation strategy produced a record …

CIWM Presidential report 2025 (and podcast)

The Chartered Institution of Wastes Management (CIWM) has inaugurated its new President, Dr David Greenfield, and launched the 2025 Presidential report This study on Lost Opportunities? Winning Back Materials To Drive the UK’s Circular Economy makes interesting reading for those in the waste management sector  –  but is also thought-provoking …

Bioelectrochemical systems – Substrate degradation

Congratulations to Dr Hannah Bird and her colleagues at Newcastle University on their recent paper: Understanding the limitations of substrate degradation in bioelectrochemical systems.  Bird, H., Velasquez-Orta, S. and Heidrich, E., 2025. Frontiers in Microbiology, 15, p.1511142. Dr Sharon Velasquez-Orta, EBNet’s WG Lead on Bioelectrochemical systems, said: “This study forms …

Environmental Sensors – publications and symposium

A quick reminder on the Second International Symposium on Microfluidics for Single Cell Sensing and Sequencing (ISM3S): Environment and Health.  This event takes place on 29-30 July 2025 in Oxford, UK with support from EBNet’s ESWS WG. Meanwhile look out for some recent publications by Prof Zhugen Yang, who leads …

Breakthrough funding for SSF innovation

Ofwat’s Water Breakthrough Challenge 5 has awarded almost £2M to fund the SandSCAPE project which will trial robotic underwater skimming machines as a way to clean slow sand filters (SSF) without draining them of water. This novel approach preserves the unique biology of the system, improving performance and resilience, and …

New interest in Respirometry

A new book from the Royal Society of Chemistry contains a chapter on Respirometry of Organic Solid Wastes:  Methods and relevance to understanding the composting process and end-product stability, authored by EBNet member Tom Aspray of Solid Sense Ltd. EBNet has done relatively little work to date on composting technologies, …

Green Stories – Wastewater and Landfill highlights for June 2025

Each month we are highlighting 2-3 stories from our Green Stories: Microbes to the Rescue anthology, equivalent to about 30 mins listening in the Audiobook version. The anthology is also available as a free eBook on the Resources page. This month’s selections are: Chapter 1:  Up Shit’s Creek by Brian Adams, …

MIC – review of Electrochemical tools

Microbiologically-Influenced Corrosion or MIC is of interest to at least two of EBNet’s Working Groups  –  the Bioelectrochemical Systems and Anaerobic Fermentation WGs, which supported a forthcoming materials study.  The full report is embargoed for now, but an outline is available here. Meanwhile a recently-published review by one of the …

Anaerobic Fermentation publications

Some interesting new publications this month in the field of Anaerobic Fermentation and biorefineries. Recent developments and future perspectives of marine macroalgae biorefinery in a circular bioeconomy approach. Lawrence, J., Oliva, A., Murphy, J.D. and Lens, P.N., 2025. Research Handbook of Innovation in the Circular Bioeconomy, pp.260-271. Critical factors influencing biohythane …

Modelling complex fluids – what do we need to know?

A 2-day workshop led by Prof John Bridgeman of the University of Liverpool brought together specialists in fluid mechanics with microbiologists and water industry end users to discuss best practice and new opportunities in hydrodynamic modelling of anaerobic digestion of wastewater biosolids. These complex multi-phase non-Newtonian fluids present a range …