Northern Ireland’s Department of the Environment (DOE), the Department for Social Development (DSD) and local social enterprise The Resource Centre, yesterday (20 August) opened a new ‘ReUse centre’ in Pennyburn, Derry, which they hope will benefit the environment and the local community.
A new campaign launched by environmentalist Tristram Stuart and chef Thomasina Miers is calling on legislation banning some food wastes from being fed to pigs to be overturned.
The Scottish Government has become the first national administration to sign up to the Ellen MacArthur Foundation’s Circular Economy 100 (CE100) programme, which the government said would give its zero waste plans a ‘big boost’.
A plastics firm was ordered to pay a total of £14,533 yesterday (28 August) after being found guilty of failing to safely plan lifting operations, thus endangering the lives of its workers.
Northern Ireland’s Department of the Environment (DoE) has announced that its plastic bag levy has led to a ‘significant reduction’ in the number of single-use carrier bags dispensed in the country.
