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Ireland – Government encourages Cork developers to increase recycling of construction and demolition waste

"The continued and unfettered growth in waste across all sectors in our society is no longer sustainable and must be reversed in the longer term to better protect our environment for the generations to come!" announced Mr. Batt O‘‘Keeffe, T.D., Minister of State at the Department of the Environment, Heritage …

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UK – use of natural resources and products down one per cent in 2003

Between 2002 and 2003 the mass of natural resources and products used by the UK economy fell by 1 per cent. This primarily comprises domestic extraction supplemented by net imports. Resource use has fallen by 2 per cent since 2000 and by 13 per cent since 1990. The Environmental Accounts …

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