Day: 7 March 2006

Severn Trent Water to repay customers

Severn Trent will be repaying its customers £42m after Ofwat found the water company had misled it in its reporting, resulting in inflated water bills.

Mayor teams up with power giant to revolutionise London’s energy supply

Community-scale power plants, a dedicated grid to supply London alone and the marriage of waste management and energy production were among the ideas on the table when Mayor Ken Livingstone announced the corporate partner which could help make the vision of the London Climate Change Agency a reality.

Mexico City the model megacity for pollution study

As one of the world's biggest urban sprawls and home to some of the planet's worst pollution Mexico City makes the ideal subject for a science experiment on a grand scale.

Nuclear not the answer, say Government advisors

Nuclear power is too costly and dangerous to justify its expansion in the UK, even if it cuts carbon emissions, the Government's own advisors said in a new report.

OFR back in limelight for Goldplating review

An independent review is asking the corporate community to come up for evidence of unnecessary Eurocratic red tape, such as that Which Gordon Brown pinned on the Operating and Financial Review when it was scrapped last year.

UN takes out world’s first drought insurance

The United Nation's World Food Programme has taken out an insurance policy which will pay out if Ethiopia suffers a sever drought during this year's agricultural season.

Digital database to fight packaging waste fraud

A new system will make packaging waste easier to track and make it harder for unscrupulous businesses to dodge their obligations.

JCB choice for Merseyside

Mersey Waste Holdings has bought nine new JCBs for waste handling operations

MBR plant first for leachate treatment

Cleanaway has commissioned a membrane bioreactor plant for leachate treatment on its landfill site in Essex that claims to offer a number of advanatges over conventional solutions

WRG sticks with Tana compactors

Landfill operator Waste Recycling Group upgrades its Tana vehicles with two larger machines

Magnificent seven

An enterprising partnership between seven local authorities may become a national model of best practice as recycling rates soar across the area

Yorwaste picks Volvo

Yorkshire firm procures a Volvo loading shovel for its Catterick waste transfer facility

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