Environmental stories tagged with: waste

In the UK we are throwing away one third of the food we buy. That's like one in three bagfuls of food shopping going straight in the bin, costing us £10 billion a year.

The Borough of Poole is introducing a new project to fund the installation of biomass boilers in community buildings in an effort to reduce Poole's carbon emissions.

A new initiative from sustainability expert BioRegional is set to help the construction industry reduce the cost of dealing with waste by reusing waste building materials.

The arrival of electrical goods made out of recycled materials took one step closer to the high street today as Indesit, will see a component of its Hotpoint washing machines made entirely out of recycled plastic for the first time.

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".

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.

Green goods will need to become the normal products on our shelves in the future, while products with a big environmental impact will need to change - and much of the time, consumers won't even notice, Climate Change Minister Joan Ruddock said today.

As the G8 gather in Japan to discuss the world economy, African development and the environment, the Prime Minister urged Britons to waste less food.

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.

The cost of needlessly wasted food to UK households is £10 billion a year, £2 billion higher than previously estimated according to new research published today by WRAP.

The huge potential of reusing waste wood as fuel is being wasted, Environment Minister Joan Ruddock has warned. The significant carbon and energy benefits of recovering energy from waste wood are detailed in a new information report on the sector that surveys the activities of producers, aggregators and users of waste wood.