Day: 7 February 2005

Double or trouble for Scottish recycling

Scotland must double its recycling effort in order to meet 2006 targets, Friends of the Earth Scotland stated in response to the recycling figures published by the Executive this week.

Grants to strengthen Midlands green business drive

An environmental network aimed to help small and medium sized businesses invest in technology and access local training courses has been launched this week by the East Midlands New Technology initiative (NTI).

Green groups warn Japan of toxic dolphins

Japanese people are being poisoned by dolphin meat because the government will not issue a national health warning, a coalition of environmental organisations has stated.

Chinese wetlands protection extended

Wetland conservation in China has received a boost in the form of nine new protected sites, covering a total of 400,000 hectares.

Risk As A Metric For Air Quality Standards

Mike Holland of EMRC proposes new measurements to define an 'acceptable' level of risk from air pollutants.

VOC Pollution Control And The SED

There are many factors to consider in the control of VOC emissions to air from coating processes with the impact of the Solvent Emissions Directive (SED) on process authorisations. Dr Tony Smith of Envirocare reports.

Taxi Emissions Strategy

Sarah Legge from the Greater London Authority explains how cutting taxi exhaust fumes will play a part in creating the London wide Low Emission Zone.

Transport and Cimate Cange

Alternative transport options are urgently needed if we are to truly address climate change, writes Tony Bosworth of Friends of the Earth.

The Future of Air Pollution Policy?

Tim Williamson, policy officer for the NSCA outlines the current developments in atmospheric environment policy.

Improving Emissions Trading

With the European emissions trading scheme starting this year, Stefanie Meilinger and Nils Steinbrecher of ERM say that the unbalanced markets need modification

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