1st January 2018 | Recycling
The UK’s recycling industry says it doesn’t know how to cope with a Chinese ban on imports of plastic waste. Britain has been shipping up to 500,000 tonnes of plastic for recycling in China every year, but now the trade has been stopped. At the moment the UK cannot deal with much of that waste,…Read more
31st December 2017 | Commercial Energy
Policies aimed at limiting climate change by boosting the burning of biomass contain critical flaws that could actually damage attempts to avert dangerous levels of global warming in the future. That is the stark view of one of Britain’s chief climate experts, Professor John Beddington, who has warned that relying on the cutting down and…Read more
29th December 2017 | Commercial Energy
Britain’s homes could be lit and powered by windfarms surrounding an artificial island deep out in the North Sea, under advanced plans by a Dutch energy network. The radical proposal envisages an island being built to act as a hub for vast offshore windfarms that would eclipse today’s facilities in scale. Dogger Bank, 125 km…Read more
28th December 2017 | Recycling
The global waste industry is about to be thrown in to turmoil as China is set to implement its threat to shut its door on almost all categories of plastic and poor-quality cardboard and paper. It is the world’s biggest processor of recyclable materials. Ireland, which has little capacity to recycle plastic, has been trying…Read more
25th December 2017 | Commercial Energy
The UK’s shale gas industry is in a race against time to establish itself before climate change regulations shut it down. As it stands, the frackers are off the pace. With no wells yet tested for gas flow, the industry does not yet know if large-scale production is possible or what the cost of the…Read more
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