Day: 26 March 2014

SSE shelves plans for four offshore wind developments

Major energy firm SSE is pulling back plans, and "significantly narrowing" its focus, on offshore wind development.

Tesco to swap cardboard egg boxes with plastic ones to ‘prevent food waste’

Retail giant Tesco has announced that it will be scrapping cardboard egg boxes in favour of plastic ones in a bid to prevent more than a million eggs a year being wasted.

MPs call on Government to take urgent steps to improve UK remanufacturing sector

A cross-party group of MPs has published a report urging the Government to support the UK remanufacturing industry to help drive a circular economy.

Will water scarcity ever challenge carbon emissions as a business priority?

When it comes to exposure and coverage, carbon emissions reign supreme. But is it time water security became the central environmental issue? Leigh Stringer investigates

Circular economy

BAFTA to improve carbon reporting of TV and film productions

The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) is improving its industry carbon calculator to enable better reporting for television and film productions.

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