Day: 2 November 2012

Dutch light up with greener roads

Sustainable roads that illuminate during the night and recharge during the day are set to hit Europe's highways in 2013, according to Dutch designers.

Biffa signs up to hospitality and food service agreement

Biffa has become the first waste management operator to support the Waste & Resources Action Programme's (WRAP) hospitality and food service agreement which could save UK businesses up to £76m by the end of 2015.

Food production contributes 29% of global carbon emissions

Agriculture and food production releases up to 17,000 megatonnes of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere annually, according to analysis by the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS).

UK water supply chain in ‘desperate need of innovation’

Leaders from across the UK and European water sectors have made a series of recommendations for water policy reform in Britain.

Plummeting costs increase wind power competitiveness

The price of operation and maintenance contracts in the global wind sector has dropped 38% in the last four years, according to Bloomberg New Energy Finance.

China to investigate EU solar product imports

China's Ministry of Commerce (MOF) has issued a statement declaring that it will begin an anti-dumping and countervailing duty investigation into imports of solar-grade polysilicon from the European Union (EU).

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