Day: 8 September 2006

Semiconductors giant enters solar market

Global semiconductor equipment firm Applied Materials announced its entry onto the photovoltaics market, which it says is at an "inflexion point," predicting that costs of solar panels will reduce threefold by 2010.

ASBOs for dastardly dumpers as EA tightens the noose on fly tipping

Normally reserved for unruly, hoodie-sporting yobs, ASBOs can now be slapped on persistent waste criminals targeted by the Environment Agency.

Grant for sheep poo paper

News in Brief

We will need incinerators but public still needs persuading: Defra

After months of consultation on the future of waste the Government remains convinced that a new generation of incinerators is needed to tackle England's waste, but recognises it has a PR battle on its hands.

Recycling incentives under the spotlight

Subsidised chickens were among the solutions discussed at a gathering of waste professionals in London this week, held to look at incentives that might encourage the public to recycle more - and throw away less.

National water grid ‘could cost £15bn’

A national water grid pumping water from the north to south east England would cost up to £15bn and cause a significant rise in greenhouse gas emissions, according to a report from the Environment Agency.

Tough love needed from EC to keep emissions trading on track

A pan-European federation of traders has said that the fact that many countries have missed the deadline for of their National Allocation Plans for the next period of the EU's Emissions Trading Scheme is undermining the existing market and is likely to have a deeper impact the longer the delays are allowed to continue.

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