You may have looked at your businesses environmental impact as a means of reducing your costs e.g. waste management, packaging minimisation and energy consumption. Few organisations consider the wider benefits to be gained from the re-use and recycling of materials to develop new products and improve supply chain performance
Mais »Australia – making fuel from waste
Axiom Energy hopes its prospect of a cheap, environmentally friendly fuel made from cooking oil or old shopping bags will pique investors‘‘ interest in its initial public offer. The Advertiser reports that managing director David Vinson and chief operating officer Danny Goldman are in Adelaide this week to talk to …
Mais »UK – £9 million glass bottles just wasted
Throwing away a resource that is worth £9 million a year seems unimaginable, but this is exactly what is happening to the 600,000 tonnes of glass bottles from UK pubs, clubs, hotels, restaurants and cafes. This is enough glass to fill Wembley Stadium one and half times and most of …
Mais »England – household recycling doubles in four years
Recycling of household waste has doubled in the last four years, according to new provisional figures published by the UK Government‘‘s Department of Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (Defra). The figures show that English households recycled more than a fifth of their waste, (approaching 23%) in 2004/05. They are the …
Mais »UK – launch of text service to make recycling easier in London
A new text service has been launched by Recycle for London to make recycling even easier for Londoners. The text service is the first of its kind in the country. Residents in the capital will be able to request details of when their recycling is collected or where their nearest …
Mais »Australia – making fuel from waste
Axiom Energy hopes its prospect of a cheap, environmentally friendly fuel made from cooking oil or old shopping bags will pique investors‘‘ interest in its initial public offer. The Advertiser reports that managing director David Vinson and chief operating officer Danny Goldman are in Adelaide this week to talk to …
Mais »UK – £9 million glass bottles just wasted
Throwing away a resource that is worth £9 million a year seems unimaginable, but this is exactly what is happening to the 600,000 tonnes of glass bottles from UK pubs, clubs, hotels, restaurants and cafes. This is enough glass to fill Wembley Stadium one and half times and most of …
Mais »England – household recycling doubles in four years
Recycling of household waste has doubled in the last four years, according to new provisional figures published by the UK Government‘‘s Department of Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (Defra). The figures show that English households recycled more than a fifth of their waste, (approaching 23%) in 2004/05. They are the …
Mais »UK – launch of text service to make recycling easier in London
A new text service has been launched by Recycle for London to make recycling even easier for Londoners. The text service is the first of its kind in the country. Residents in the capital will be able to request details of when their recycling is collected or where their nearest …
Mais »UK – why we waste £9bn on gadgets we never use
Bread makers, coffee machines and electric knives. They sound like a nice idea but according to a new poll, British adults waste a staggering £9.4bn on household gadgets which they never use. Western Mail reports that the research carried out by esure.com found 23.4m adults in the UK buy gadgets …
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