24th August 2018 | Residential Energy
Scottish Power is raising the cost of its standard variable gas and electricity tariff by 3.7%, piling further pressure on squeezed households. The energy firm said the changes will come into force on October 8 and hammer 900,000 customers with an average £46 added to annual bills. It blamed “continued increases in wholesale energy costs.”…Read more
15th August 2018 | Commercial Energy
The UK’s voracious appetite for wood-fuelled energy is sounding alarm bells among environmental advocates, health groups, and those living near clear-cut forests. If the public understood that we are using public money raised from electricity bill payers to subsidize the clear-cutting of American forests and increasing carbon emissions in the atmosphere, then they would be…Read more
13th August 2018 | Recycling
The 45 containers, destined for Polish waste sorting facilities, were marked as plastic recycling, but when officials intercepted the exports at a port in Gdynia, they found boxes, tins, detergent packaging and engine oil, according to a report by the Telegraph last week. Now the UK Environment Agency (EA) has told Unearthed that the Polish…Read more
10th August 2018 | Commercial Energy
An increase in wholesale energy prices pushed Britain’s Centrica to announce its second price rise of the year this week even as regulators prepare to cap prices to help millions of households struggling with rising costs. All of Britain’s energy suppliers have increased prices since Prime Minister Theresa May lashed out at what she called…Read more
8th August 2018 | Recycling
The UK’s biggest crisp brand, Walkers, will come under pressure this week to explain why it is helping to fuel the plastic waste littering the streets and seas by producing more than 7,000 non-recyclable crisp packets every minute. A new analysis carried out by campaign organisation 38 Degrees has found that Walkers is set to…Read more
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