Undercover surveillance by the Environment Agency has helped to expose the activities of a married couple running an illegal waste site.
Nicholas Simon Panks was ord...
Environment Minister Alex Attwood has announced a substantial funding boost for projects that will divert waste from landfill, and has called for eligible applicants to apply.
£500,000 in t...
Lamps and Tubes Illuminations Ltd has been fined £5,950 and was ordered to pay £10,000 in costs after admitting to breaching the Work at Height Regulations SI 2005/735. The...
Donmac Farms Limited in Coagh, Co Tyrone, has been fined £1,500 and ordered to pay £28 costs at Dungannon Magistrates' Court for making a polluting discharge to a waterway.
In November 2011...
The previous Labour Government took bold steps to make sure that brownfield sites, such as disused industrial areas, were considered first for development before greenfield sites, such as the green...
Cedrec are excited to announce that we will be exhibiting at the Big Eco Show, at the Centre for Life in Newcastle on 18 April 2013.
With over 50 businesses exhibiting, this will be the reg...
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) established the Myth Busters Challenge Panel 12 months ago, and one year on it has come across an array of strange decisions, all made,...
While Britney Spears was inside singing about being a slave for you and how much she loves rock and roll, outside of the concert hall, Newcastle based Mark Alexander was busy dumping an array of wa...
The Environment Agency's illegal waste sites task force was established in December 2011 to tackle illegal waste sites and launched a "blitz" on criminal waste operations. I...
It has been announced that nearly one in five construction sites visited across Britain have been subject to enforcement action after failing safety checks.
Between 18 February and 15 March...
The owner of a hairdressing salon in the Kentish seaside town of Herne Bay has found himself on the wrong side of the law after failing to produce a valid Employers' Liability Compulsory Insurance...
Michael Galloway, trading as M.G. Construction has been fined £2,500 and given a 12 month conditional discharge after pleading guilty at Newry Crown Court to three breaches of health and safety leg...
The results of a survey of over 70 Easter egg manufacturers show that many are using non-certified palm oil or derivatives in their products.
The survey undertaken by Ethical Consumer magaz...
A school in Essex has decided to change catering practices regarding the shape in which flapjacks are cut following an injury to a pupil! The decision was taken after a triangular shaped slice of f...
Carrickfergus Borough Council and Mr Patrick Buckler, trading as Water Management Services Limited, have been sentenced at Laganside Magistrates' Court for breaches of health and safety legislation...
