Day: 22 June 2010

London looking to boost high rise recycling rates

London's historical problem of collecting recycling from high rise homes is to be tackled with £5M of funding.

Emergency budget gives clarity to long-term land-fill tax increases

Behind a wealth of tax increases and not mentioned directly in the chancellor's speech to Parliament is an £8-a-tonne increase on the land-fill tax.

Environment takes a back seat in emergency budget

Green initiatives were on show in the emergency budget but took a back seat to some £11 billion of cuts and VAT rise to 20%.

Chancellor urged to go green in emergency budget

Chancellor George Osborne will today (June 22) outline a series of cuts in an emergency budget.

Cycling to work up 125% in a year

An Irish cycle to work scheme has seen membership increase by 125% in just 12 months.

Irish to buy Welsh wind-farm

Law firm Burges Salmon has advised Irish state-owned utility ESB on its acquisition of the Mynydd y Betws wind farm project in South Wales from Welsh renewable energy company Eco2, for an undisclosed sum.

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