Day: 24 May 2006

Solar funding lights up British buildings

Crown Estate buildings in London's Regent Street are among sixteen developments to be granted Government solar microgeneration funding, energy minister Malcolm Wicks announced this week.

Recycling court case adjourned

The UK's first case of a local authority taking legal action against a resident who failed to recycle properly has been adjourned for two weeks.

‘The world is ready for climate change action’

The tide has turned and both the business community and governments are waking up to the urgent need for action to address climate change.

Strong growth for European wind power

The electricity generating capacity of Europe's wind farms more than doubled between 2000 and 2004, EU statistics released this week show.

Textiles suffer shortfall

Uncertainty surrounds the UK textile recycling and reuse industry as reclamation merchants are struggling with a shortfall in supplies, reports Alan Wheeler

Boost for battery recycling

Mercury Recycling has launched Batterysafe, a battery recycling service to complement its Lampsafe lamp recycling service.

Optimising kerbside collection of BMW

The Organic Resource Agency has completed a five-year study to assess the effectiveness of a Kent council's alternate week kerbside collection service. Anna Bright outlines the results

Station controller for hazardous waste

Pioneering technology in use at a York transfer station has a firm grip on every aspect of the waste management process

Isle of Wight set to benefit from gasification project

Gasification technology may be retrofitted to a waste treatment plant in the Isle of Wight to help divert domestic waste from landfill

Torbay prepares to ring in the changes

Changing the face of waste management - that's the theme of this year's CIWM show in Torbay which will incorporate two conferences in one for added value

The great leap forward

CIWM chief executive Steve Lee identifies how the waste industy must change if it is to forge ahead, and calls for a united front to make it happen

Clean energy for monitoring vehicle

Antares' electrical engineering expertise has been called upon by Signal Ambitech, the Oxfordshire-based specialist in air quality monitoring, to help create a power system for a landfill air quality monitoring vehicle.

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