Environmental stories tagged with: cycling

Aluminium company Novelis Inc. has announced that it recycled an estimated 39 billion aluminium beverage cans in the past year, a new company record.

Swale Borough Council and recycling company SWEEEP are launching a brand new recycling facility at Sainsbury's and ASDA's supermarkets in Sittingbourne, Kent, to which Swale residents can bring many unwanted electrical items.

In the absence of a decision by the Government to implement the EU Directive on battery recycling, Moixa Energy has taken the lead with the launch of its Alkaline Awareness Campaign and 'CO2 Saver' USB rechargeable batteries.

Thanks to WEEE, a European-wide scheme requiring electronic producers to take-back our old electronic items, we are sending less of our e-waste to landfill than ever before.  Have you ever thought what happens to our e-waste?  According to some Greenpeace investigations, they are being illegally dumped in India, China, Ghana and other developing nations as "second-hand goods".

Moves to cut waste, increase recycling, and reduce landfill are continuing to deliver results, according to the latest figures.

The Government is proposing changes to the system of environmental permit exemptions which it hopes will make it simpler for businesses to recycle low risk materials, saving them money.

Britain's first combined food-grade PET and HDPE recycling facility opened today in East London.

Transport Secretary Ruth Kelly today appointed Bristol as the UK's first official Cycling City, and announced a further 11 Cycling Demonstration Towns across England.

Just over a year since the Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) Regulations came into force, thousands of businesses that import, rebrand or manufacture electrical and electronic equipment have registered with a WEEE compliance scheme.

People want to recycle their old computers, but advice from councils is often inadequate and could even lead to data falling into the hands of identity thieves, says Computing Which? magazine today.

The numbers of students cycling and walking to the Lancaster University campus has almost doubled in less than two years according to University surveys.