21st September 2018 | Recycling
Head to the kitchen, open your fridge and cupboards, and take out everything that’s made of plastic. Bags of pasta, rice (or quinoa, if that’s your jam), bottle of olive oil or soy sauce, blocks of cheese, cartons of mile and juice, packaging around meat and fish, bags of spinach, two-packs of avocados, punnets of…Read more
21st September 2018 | Commercial Energy
The upward trajectory of already unseasonably high British wholesale gas prices is showing no sign of slowing, putting pressure on the energy regulator Ofgem to raise its price cap next year. A cap on default electricity and gas bills – a flagship policy of British Prime Minister Theresa May to end what she called “rip-off”…Read more
17th September 2018 | Recycling
Research at Cranfield University is working to understand the potential recovery of valuable chemicals from plastic-containing waste which is not currently recycled. This would divert low-grade plastic waste from landfill to produce chemicals for use in manufacturing or as liquid fuels. Due to the under capacity of suitable refuse plants in the UK, over three…Read more
13th September 2018 | Recycling
The world’s first plastic bicycle path made of recycled bottles, cups and packaging has opened in the Netherlands, as part of a pilot that could see similar roads open up across the country. The 30-metre path, made of recycled plastic equivalent to more than 218,000 plastic cups, is expected to be three times as durable…Read more
12th September 2018 | Commercial Energy
Electric vehicles currently make up just 4.3 pe cent of new vehicle registrations nationally. But the UK is seen as a European centre for electric vehicles because of government incentives for carmakers to invest in production capacity. However, a lack of costly infrastructure has held back development. According to the National Infrastructure Commission, battery power…Read more
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Since then we have worked with FTSE 100 companies, one-man bands, across all categories.
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