Remediation or Problem Translocation: An Ethical Discussion as to the Sustainability of the Remediation Market and Carbon Calculating

Remedial technologies consume energy, produce atmospheric, solid- and liquid-based waste streams and do not always destroy or remove contaminants from the environment. The following discussion reviews those factors associated with the environmental impacts of conducting land quality remediation works with particular focus upon the carbon calculating of different remediation technologies. This work seeks to challenge the conventional paradigm of paying hearsay to the term “sustainability” and challenges the selection of remediation technologies at specific sites in favor of sustainability versus time for non time critical problem holders. By promoting often simple changes to the ways in which we deliver remediation, then added value to society may be delivered while also driving changes in the behavior of market sector thinking.