The petrol-powered motor was first invented in 1885, however, it took until 1913 to become mass produced and cemented as a cornerstone of daily life. The replacement of the horse and carriage with the car was revolutionary. However, the development of the infrastructure to ensure cars would, for example, always be within driving distance of a petrol station took a considerable amount of time and investment. The car, no matter how revolutionary, would be redundant without the infrastructure... More
Tesco has announced that it will be replacing its plastic-wrapped multipacks of tinned food with permanent multibuys to reduce plastic waste, removing 350 tonnes of plastic from its products.
Wood recycling company R Plevin & Sons Ltd (PLEVINS) has been fined £200,000 at Sheffield Crown Court following a series of environmental incidents in 2014.
Behavioural change charity Hubbub has constructed an immersive art installation on London’s Southbank to promote the launch of five new paper cup recycling schemes across London, financed by The Cup Fund.
A new report from Dutch social enterprise Circle Economy has revealed that the global economy is consuming a record 100 billion tonnes of materials a year, while the reuse of resources has gone into reverse.
Viridor’s residual materials recycling facility (rMRF) at Bargeddie in North Lanarkshire has begun to receive waste as part of a 190,000-tonne contract with five Scottish councils.
The Javelin Park energy-from-waste (EfW) facility is now fully operational, accepting up to 190,000 tonnes of residual waste and producing over 116,000 megawatt hours (MWh) of electricity each year.
Cornwall County Council has agreed a new eight-year waste and recycling collection contract with Biffa, which is expected to increase tonnages of recyclable materials collected at the kerbside by 59 per cent.
The Environment Agency’s packaging producer responsibility monitoring plan 2020 has dropped its planned number of site inspections of accredited operators to 110 from 160 in 2019.
A new report from the Environmental Services Association (ESA), produced by Eunomia Research and Consulting, has concluded that local authorities in England that contract out their waste services achieve higher recycling rates than in-house services.
Scottish waste management firm Binn Group has submitted revised plans to build a £70-million energy-from-waste (EfW) plant at Binn EcoPark near Glenfarg in Perth and Kinross.
The UK’s first waste-to-hydrogen plant using technology developed by Powerhouse Energy Group has secured funding for the next stage of its development at its site in Ellesmere Port, Cheshire.
German company Erdwich Zderkleinerungs-Systeme GmbH is working to advance the recycling of waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) around the world, supplying equipment to recycling plants in Hong Kong and Portugal.
