44 Environmental Laboratory How Glastonbury Festival protects its soil health
Glastonbury Festival, a massive annual event held at Worthy Farm, is renowned not just for its music but also for its commitment to environmental sustainability. The festival employs several strategies to protect soil health, ensuring the land remains fertile and capable of supporting both the event and the farm’s agricultural activities. One of the primary steps taken to protect soil health is the careful management of grazing. Cows, which typically graze on the land, are moved well before the festival begins. This early relocation helps reduce soil compaction and overgrazing, allowing the vegetation to recover and the soil structure to stabilize. This preparation is crucial in maintaining the integrity of the soil, ensuring it can support the infl ux of festival-goers and heavy equipment.
Regular soil testing and analysis are conducted to monitor soil health. These tests check for nutrient levels and soil pH, guiding appropriate fertilization and liming practices. By understanding the soil’s condition, the organizers can implement necessary measures to maintain its fertility and structure. During the festival, several strategies are employed to minimize soil impact. Temporary trackways and matting are used in pathways and heavy-use areas to prevent soil compaction. This helps protect the soil from the pressure of thousands of attendees and the movement of vehicles and equipment.
Waste management is another critical component of soil protection at Glastonbury. The festival has a robust system in place with numerous bins designated for recycling and composting. This system ensures that litter does not contaminate the soil, and organic waste is processed sustainably. The use of eco-friendly materials, such as biodegradable food service items, further reduces the long-term impact on soil health.
Water management practices are also crucial during the festival. Proper drainage systems are maintained to manage water runoff and prevent soil erosion. Sustainable water sources are used for festival operations, reducing the strain on local water supplies and protecting the soil from
waterlogging and erosion.
Once the festival concludes, an extensive cleanup operation begins. Volunteers meticulously pick up litter, ensuring that all waste is removed from the site. This immediate action prevents any residual litter from contaminating the soil. Over the years, the effi ciency of this cleanup operation has improved, signifi cantly reducing the amount of residual waste.
The land is then given a period of rest and recovery. Grass reseeding is undertaken in areas that have been particularly affected by the festival activities. This helps restore the vegetation cover, which is essential for protecting the soil from erosion and maintaining its structure. Regular monitoring of soil conditions continues post-festival to ensure that any damaged areas are identifi ed and rehabilitated.
The measures taken by Glastonbury Festival to protect soil health demonstrate a strong commitment to environmental sustainability. By balancing the needs of a large-scale event with responsible land stewardship, the festival sets a benchmark for eco-friendly event management. These practices ensure that the land remains productive and healthy, supporting both the festival and the agricultural activities at Worthy Farm. Through careful planning, implementation, and post-event rehabilitation, Glastonbury Festival effectively protects its soil health, contributing to the overall sustainability of the environment.
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Mercury in Ambient Air, Workroom Air and Stack Gas Applications
Currently the monitoring of mercury in ambient air is not extensive due to the limited number of monitoring sites around the globe. In one approach P S Analytical (PSA) has used gold on silica Amasil adsorption tubes designed for pumped mercury vapour sampling as passive samplers, offering a simple, maintenance free and cost-effective sampling solution. These tubes are returned to a centralised lab for thermal desorption and analysis by Atomic Fluorescence Spectroscopy (AFS). These sampling tubes may be reused and redeployed.
Workroom air monitoring requires a different sampling approach. There is often the potential of high concentrations of mercury vapour in localised areas, e.g. during Hg recovery/recycling or in manufacturing processes. Real time results are required to protect workers from potential Hg vapour exposure. PSA’s approach here is for the workroom air to be pumped to a central AFS instrument. Multi-stream (room/area) monitoring is therefore easily achieved, offering early warning alarms should set limits be breached.
Stack gas monitoring is usually carried out for emission compliance and typical industries affected include; coal fi red power, cement manufacture, smelting operations and the like. Here a coated sample probe takes a volume of stack gas, dilutes and removes interference before carrying it to the AFS for determination.
In common with all our technology PSA employs AFS as our central analytical technology which offers dominance and leading performance in terms of; sensitivity, working ranges, freedom from interferences. These attributes combined with our novel sampling systems, our hallmarked robustness and ease of use make PSA your fi rst choice for mercury determinations.
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Leading analytical laboratory adopt LIMS to improve effi ciency and best practice A new case study released
by Autoscribe Informatics (A Xybion Company) highlights how CIA Labs has streamlined their approval process, reduced the burden of paperwork, and improved their overall turn- around times by adopting Autoscribe’s Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS). The CIA Labs case study can be downloaded from Autoscribe’s website.
Based in Saint Joseph, Missouri, Custom Industrial Analysis Labs (CIA Labs) has been in operation for over 30 years serving the pharmaceutical, food and agribusiness industries, as well as testing for various industrial and chemical clients. CIA Labs is a full-service contract chemical analytical laboratory offering a wide spectrum of analytical and consulting activities for clients across the USA and globally. CIA Labs is an ISO 17025 accredited laboratory, registered with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). All pharmaceutical work is performed in compliance with cGMPs.
Prior to adopting a LIMS, paper was used to manage each sample and its associated data, from registering the sample at reception to capturing the analytical results and calculations in the laboratory, including the manual creation of certifi cates of analysis (CofAs). Over the years the volume, complexity and variety of the testing performed has grown dramatically, to the extent that paper processes were becoming a signifi cant bottleneck for the business.
The main benefi t of Autoscribe’s LIMS has been to help eliminate these bottlenecks, by removing the need to pass paperwork between the various departments and automating the creation of reports and Certifi cates of Analysis (CofAs) for clients. Previously, as an FDA lab, all the manual paperwork had to be checked and double checked by hand to guard against errors. Analytical results are now captured in the laboratory and checked online by the QA team. CofAs are automatically created once the checks and approvals have been completed. As a result, the total turnaround time from samples arriving to results being released to the customer has dramatically reduced.
CIA Labs are confi guring the LIMS themselves as their needs evolve. “The Autoscribe team were always understanding and helpful during the implementation phase, even though timescales were heavily disrupted during the implementation by us moving to larger offi ces and the Covid pandemic”, they said. “Autoscribe support is always available should we have questions or issues; their team is always friendly and helpful.”
“CIA Labs is a great example of how laboratories can use the power of a LIMS to digitize and automate processes across their organization”, said Dr Simon Wood, Product Manager at Autoscribe Informatics. “Autoscribe’s LIMS allows them to meet the audit and compliance needs required by the EPA, FDA and DEA with ease, as well as service their clients more quickly and effi ciently, ensuring the continued growth and success of their business.”
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