Day: 8 January 2013

Employee overtime adds ‘significant’ costs to SMEs energy bills

Employees working overtime for small-to-medium sized businesses (SMEs) are adding significantly to their company's energy bills, according to new research.

UK to invest £10m in EU bioenergy innovation

The UK has pledged to invest up to £10m in a European scheme aimed at developing innovative bioenergy projects.

Business case for sustainability not yet ‘credible enough’

An inability to engage effectively with chief finance officers (CFOs) on the social and environmental merits of better resource management may be hindering the business case for sustainability.

NI Water invests in £2m upgrade programme

NI Water has earmarked £2m for a project to upgrade a number of wastewater pumping stations and deliver environmental improvements across Northern Ireland.

Dairy UK partners with FHC to reduce water usage

Dairy UK and WRAP have signed an agreement that will see the dairy industry representative become an official partner to the Federation House Commitment (FHC).

Battle of the bins is ‘muddying’ national recycling drive

Long-running battles over kerbside collection methods are damaging efforts to increase recycling rates in the UK, according to a leading industry commentator.

EfW tool set to optimise energy outputs from residual waste

A tool to help calculate renewable energy outputs from waste materials is set to optimise recovery processes at energy-from-waste (EfW) plants.

Forward thinking Tories paint a green picture

A green economy will be so integrated into business practice that the term will no longer be relevant, according to progressive Conservatives who have laid out their vision of the country in 2020.

Rupert Murdoch labels renewable energy investment ‘useless’

Channel 4's Jon Snow has hit back at media mogul Rupert Murdoch for stating on his twitter account that the world should switch from "useless renewable energy investments to real job creating infrastructure projects".

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