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From the Porch Swing

I’m a Chemist. I’m not a practicing, in-the-lab chemist,  but I do have a university degree in Chemistry. More importantly, I’m a Chemistry fan. I like it. I know that water is a chemical, that almost all pesticides are ‘organic’, and that herbal remedies are complex mixtures of chemicals.

30 years ago

A look back at the news in May 1981

HCB May 1981We are not quite old enough to remember ourselves, but we learn from the May 1981 issue of HCB that bulk liquids storage activities on the UK’s east coast began as long ago as 1929,

Répétez s'il vous plaît

In many ways, what a magazine like HCB has to do for its readers is translate what is happening so that it is understandable. Sometimes that means an actual translation job from another language

From the Porch Swing

I used to hate Heisenberg. When I was very young I was good at math, and reassured by math. Math had one, single correct answer to every problem, and every other answer was wrong.

30 years ago

A look back at what was in the news in April 1981

HCB April 1981One of the joys of revisiting the archive is digging out articles written by old friends in the industry.

Going shopping?

This was going to be one of those inconsequential editorials ruminating about something irrelevant to most readers. You know the sort of thing, if you’ve been reading us for any length of time.

Who cares?

Here at HCB we are currently looking at redeveloping our website www.hazardouscargo.com – go see it now before it changes) to provide more varied news feeds and access to a lot more information.

From the Porch Swing

Join the 21st century! Ouch, am I really that old and set in my ways that I deserve such a jab from one of my children? 

Is that all there is?

Cold weather is like an economic recession: both will identify weaknesses and cull the unfit.

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