4th January 2020 | Recycling
Paltry fly-tipping fines of under £50 are failing to deter criminals from dumping waste, the Local Government Association (LGA) has warned. Only five per cent of court-imposed fines for fly-tipping offences in England in the past six year were above £1,000, and only a sixth of them above £500, the LGA has revealed. This is…Read more
3rd January 2020 | Commercial Energy
Three companies have agreed to pay £10.5 million to the energy watchdog’s redress fund over the power cuts in August which left more than one million customers without power and caused travel chaos, regulator Ofgem has said. Ofgem’s investigation into the power cuts on August 9 2019 found that the combined loss of two large…Read more
2nd January 2020 | Recycling
The beach at Muncar on the island of Java was revolting. The 400-yard wide, mile-long stretch of sand was feet deep in foul-smelling sauce sachets, shopping bags, nappies, bottles and bags, plastic clothes and detergent bottles. Bulldozers had cleared away and buried some of the huge mat of plastic and sand two years ago, but…Read more
1st January 2020 | Commercial Energy
Britain, the birthplace of coal power, produced more electricity from zero-carbon sources such as wind, solar and nuclear than from fossil fuel plants for the first time in 2019, National Grid said on Wednesday. Having built the world’s first coal-fired power plant in the 1880s, coal became Britain’s dominant electricity source and a major economic…Read more
30th December 2019 | Recycling
In today’s competitive landscape, environmental performance has to work alongside return on investment in the bottom line of a sustainable business. But is it so hard to balance costs and benefits? Industrial activity accounts for around a third of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions and 16% of the UK’s total power consumption, so it’s not…Read more
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