31st March 2019 | Recycling
UK based Frugalpac has a solution for a global bad habit: tossing out coffee cups. It’s estimated that Starbucks uses 7 billion cups every year. And that’s just one brand. Aware of this issue, last year the global brand partnered McDonald’s to fund an innovation challenge and see if creative thinkers from around the world…Read more
29th March 2019 | Recycling
Greenpeace has criticised Sainsbury’s for failing to reduce the amount of plastic waste it produces. The environmental charity has targeted the UK’s second biggest supermarket after it was found to be “the worst in class” in a 2018 survey of retailer’s plastic policies. According to Greenpeace, Sainsbury’s has made the least progress out of the…Read more
25th March 2019 | Commercial Energy
Plans to force through fracking the UK could release CO2 equivalent to the lifetime emissions of nearly 300 cars, according to figures from the Labour Party. According to shadow ministers, projected emissions from fracking would overshoot the UK’s current annual emissions 20 times over, ending any chance of complying with Paris climate obligations. The UK…Read more
22nd March 2019 | Commercial Energy
The UK is due to leave the European Union (EU) on 29 March 2019. At this late stage there is still no certainty concerning the handling of the myriad interconnections and partnerships formed with the EU over the past decades. This article examines the most up-to-date evidence available on the likely impact on the UK’s…Read more
19th March 2019 | Recycling
The objective of the circular economy is to move away from a linear throw-away system toward one in which depleting resources are reused to maximise their potential and minimize waste. Recycling plays a key role, reflected in one of the EU’s pan-European objectives to reach 50% of reused or recycled residential waste by 2020. It…Read more
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