26th April 2020 | Recycling
Britain gets through 2.5 billion of them every year and the number is set to increase. But despite a growing clamour for coffee chains to make their cups more environment-friendly, the vast majority are used only once, which critics say is a considerable waste of natural resources. One company vying to produce a truly recyclable…Read more
21st April 2020 | Recycling
Councils are burning household recycling after being hit by a massive surge in domestic waste and coronavirus-related staff absences during the pandemic, the Guardian has learned. Councils in Cardiff, St Helens, and Inverclyde confirmed they were temporarily incinerating recycling, while those in Oldham, Redbridge and West Dunbartonshire also said they had stepped down their recycling…Read more
21st April 2020 | Residential Energy
Thousands of households across Britain were paid to use electricity on Tuesday as sunny weather and fresh winds coupled with low demand. Some electricity customers were getting up to 4p per unit of electricity they used between 9am and 4pm, the longest period of so-called negative pricing yet. Although most customers across the British energy…Read more
17th April 2020 | Commercial Energy
Almost 50% of the UK’s carbon footprint comes from emissions released overseas to satisfy UK-based consumption, according to a new report by the WWF. According to the report, products including clothing, processed foods and electronics imported into the UK are counted as the manufacturing country’s emissions, not the UK’s, although they would not have been…Read more
16th April 2020 | Commercial Energy
In a week where plans were unveiled for a nationwide roll-out of farming greenhouses heated by wastewater, the UK’s major gas operators have teamed up to launch a programme aimed at delivering the world’s first zero-carbon gas grid. Heat accounts for more than a third of the UK’s greenhouse gas emissions and remains one of…Read more
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