In addition to the standard rules already established by the Environment Agency, new rules have been published which operators must comply with in order to operate a waste i...
The 5p charge on single-use bags has been implemented in Wales and Northern Ireland in order to encourage shoppers to re-use bags to reduce the strain on the environment. Scotland is also consideri...
The Scottish Government have announced plans to install charging points throughout the Scottish road network in an attempt to cut vehicle emissions.
The scheme will see charging points inst...
Health and Safety is often cited as the reason for stopping acceptable events simply because it is a convenient tag-line. However, the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is f...
A Freedom of Information (FoI) request has revealed that in the three months in which the Health and Safety Executive's (HSE) Fee for Intervention (FFI) Scheme has been in f...
Steel manufacturer Tata Steel and a specialist contractor have been fined a total of £320,000 for safety failings after a worker was killed by a falling metal bar in Redcar.
Kristian Lee No...
A Dorset contractor has been fined for safety failings after a lorry driver suffered a serious hand injury while using unsafe wheel cleaning equipment on a construction site.
The driver los...
Postal staff working in Cheltenham have been banned from wearing shorts on health and safety grounds. It was feared that postal staff who wear shorts in bad weather might get frost-bite, chapped sk...
The Health and Safety Executive for Northern Ireland (HSE NI) has sent out a reminder that there is still time for trades people to sign up for free asbestos awareness train...
Householders are to be offered long-term loans to help make their homes more energy efficient under a new Government scheme.
A man from Doncaster has been fined a massive £250,000 and costs of £13,575.35 after he pleaded guilty of breaching an enforcement notice, issued by Doncaster Council, on five occasions.
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In the wake of the snowy conditions up and down the country, the Environment Agency have suggested that people should build snowmen to prevent flooding when everything start...
Following UN talks in Geneva, more than 140 countries have agreed on legally binding measures which aim to reduce mercury pollution.
Mercury can be released into the environment through a n...
The manager of Gleision Colliery in South Wales has been charged with gross negligence manslaughter following the deaths of four miners in September 2011.
MNS Mining, the company which owns...
According to a UK-based report, as much as half of the world's food, around two billion tonnes worth, is being wasted.
The Institution of Mechanical Engineers said the waste was being cause...
