A building products manufacturer, Stressline Limited, were fined £12,000 and ordered to pay costs of £2,121 after a worker suffered serious cement burns on his first day of work.
The 21-yea...
CP Plastics Limited, a Manchester waste plastic recycling firm, has been fined after an employee’s hand was severed in a granulator machine.
The 50-year-old employee, who has been deaf sinc...
In some saddening environmental news, it is estimated that by 2050, there will be more plastic in the sea than fish.
It is said that only 5% of plastics are recycled effectively, and one wa...
Clandon Park House in Surrey is to be partially rebuilt by the National Trust following a fire in April 2015 which reduced the Grade I listed building to a shell.
The 18th Century House was...
The organisers of the world famous Glastonbury festival have admitted to allowing human sewage to leak from a tank and pollute a nearby stream.
Every year, hundreds of thousands of people f...
The Government have introduced their air quality plans which include commitments to create 'Clean Air Zones' in Birmingham, Leeds, Nottingham, Derby and Southampton where air quality prob...
Ashley Coe, an agency worker on site for Pascon Limited, was part of a group of workers laying cables in a trench when he received an electric shock from an overhead power line.
British So...
The 12.47p per kWh incentive for electricity from solar panels has now been closed to new applicants for three weeks. Anyone now installing panels will get 4.39p per kWh which is a 65% cut, previou...
Law firm ClientEarth will be taking UK environment ministers to court to make them speed up plans to reduce dangerous urban air pollution as it warns that thousands of peoples lives are at risk if...
2015 has come and gone, so we would like to take the opportunity to look back on Cedrec's achievements and milestones.
Cedrec turned 21 in 2015, and launched not one but two new produc...
We at Cedrec have seen the legislation area of the environment grow exponentially. It's an area so massive now that not all of it is relevant to a subscriber's needs. Cedrec Energy was ou...
The Housing and Planning Bill is currently working its way through Parliament and aims to increase the number of new homes being built by removing potential obstacles. This...
Bristol Cathedral Choir School has been fined a total of £26,000 and ordered to pay £12,176 in costs after a chemistry experiment went wrong, resulting in injuries to a chemistry lab te...
The current Crossrail project in London is well underway and the first Crossrail services will hopefully start running in late 2018. Now, Transport for London has proposed Crossrail 2, which could...
Research commissioned by the Local Government Association (LGA) has revealed that there are 475,647 homes in England which are yet to be built, despite the fact they have planning permission.
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