Day: 3 December 2013

Nike helps reshape dyeing industry with new waterfree facility

Nike has today opened a waterfree dyeing facility in Taiwan that eliminates the use of water and process chemicals from fabric dyeing.

Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall: Wind power vital part of our future

TV celebrity chef Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall has backed wind power generation in the UK, calling for wind farms to be seen as "fundamentally normal".

Call for landfill tax clarity in Autumn Statement

A leading waste industry figurehead has called on the Chancellor George Osborne to make a compelling case for future landfill tax increases in his forthcoming Autumn statement this Thursday.

Resource potential, a question of assets?

Barriers to investment continue to present hurdles that the UK's resource infrastructure is struggling to overcome, suggests Neil Jefferies. But does asset-based lending hold the answer?

Circular economy

House of Lords evidence session targets economic value of waste

A House of Lords committee is meeting today to explore the opportunities of creating a multi-million pound economy from waste products across agriculture, industry and households.

Coffee industry launches new GHG calculating methodology

Global coffee companies Lavazza, Nestle and illycaffe are amongst a group of organisations to launch a new methodology to calculate Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions from green coffee production.

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