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Day: 19 March 2007

House-building boom ‘will cost billions in infrastructure’

The house-building planned for South East England will bring billions in hidden costs as additional environmental infrastructure needed to support the new homes is built, an Environment Agency report has said.

No health risk from bi-weekly collections, says Government

Storing waste at home for two weeks while you wait for the binmen to collect it does not appear to have any adverse health implications, according to research commissioned by the Government.

A third of food is thrown away

British households are throwing away around a third of all the food they buy, amounting to 6.7m tonnes every year.

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