Environmental stories tagged with: PAS
Tesco Puts Carbon Trust Carbon Reduction Label on 20 Products in Tesco Stores
Tuesday, 29th April 2008, 1:37 pm
Tesco today unveiled a range of 20 products which will carry the Carbon Trust's Carbon Reduction Label. These will be across four different categories - orange juice, washing detergent, light bulbs and potatoes - enabling shoppers to compare the carbon impact of like-for-like products for the first time.
 Short Cut between Europe and Asia OpensTuesday, 18th September 2007, 4:26 pm
Before the Suez Canal opened in 1869, the shortest sea route to Asia was the perilous journey around the southern tip of South Africa, but now an alternative route has opened up, but this is not good news.
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 easyJet Campaign for Intelligent Air TaxesTuesday, 18th September 2007, 3:26 pm
easyJet has launched a major campaign to encourage the UK's politicians to adopt a more intelligent approach to air travel.
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 Sony Develops Bio-Battery Generating Electricity from SugarFriday, 24th August 2007, 1:50 pm
Sony has announced the development of a bio battery that generates electricity from carbohydrates (sugar) utilising enzymes as its catalyst, through the application of power generation principles found in living organisms.
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 Year Two for the Waste Protocols ProjectFriday, 1st June 2007, 5:52 pm
Plans to reduce red tape and make it easier to turn millions of tonnes of common types of industrial and commercial waste, such as steel slag and old plasterboard, into useable new materials were announced by the Environment Agency and WRAP.
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Standardising Greenhouse Gases
Wednesday, 30th May 2007, 4:58 pm
Today the Carbon Trust and Defra announced that they will be working with BSI British Standards to co-sponsor the development of a Publicly Available Specification (PAS) for the measurement of the embodied greenhouse gases (GHGs) in products and services.
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