Day: 3 September 2012

Woking food waste initiative is served up to flats and schools

In a novel move to extend food waste collections to the wider society, Woking has introduced a new service to schools. Nick Warburton reports

Sales of energy-efficient products too low warns UK think tank

Sales of energy-efficient products are too low if they are on track to meet expected 2020 energy saving targets according to UK think tank the Green Alliance.

Traditional lightbulb ban reaches final phase

From Saturday September 1 2012, shops will no longer be allowed to order new stocks of incandescent lightbulbs of 40w or lower.

Leveraging Sustainability for Economic Profit

More and more organizations see the importance of sustainable business practices. They have recognized that there are very substantial financial benefits to be obtained by integrating sustainability thinking and practices into all their business processes. Once you take into account the wider, longer-term, and often hidden costs, the financial benefits of good, practical, sustainable, working practices are enormous.

Organic waste venture first to profit from GIB funds

A combined anaerobic digestion and in-vessel composting facility is the waste sector's first beneficiary of Green Investment Bank (GIB) funding.

BSkyB: Switching on to sustainable broadcasting

Commuters stuck in traffic along the A4 in west London have had a new landmark to look out for in recent months. A 55-metre wind turbine now fills the skyline as a symbol of BSkyB's efforts to make more use of renewable energy at its new state-of-the-art sustainable broadcast centre. Sustainable Business finds out more.

EfW vital to UK meeting future waste targets

A pressing need to increase recovery rates for non-municipal waste streams will drive strong growth in energy-from-waste (EfW) technologies over the next four years, new research reveals.

Recruiting for a zero waste landscape

The UK's quest to improve its waste to landfill ratios should open the doors for career development in the industry, observes Paul Gosling

Record number of waste criminals now behind bars

The number of waste offenders sent to prison has almost trebled in the past three years, according to the Environment Agency.

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