Derry City Council currently spends £1.6m every year on cleaning its streets. However, litterers are now being targeted in Londonderry and the Council has issued thousands of pounds in fines, with...
Smart-thinking bods at Newcastle University have constructed a pop-up cafe within the university's main campus which is entirely made from recycled materials, apart from the coffee.
Local e...
The 43rd annual Earth Day has arrived!
Earth Day, which was born in America in 1970, occurs on 22 April every year and is a day set aside to raise awareness of the environment and climate c...
As heartthrob Peter Andre was filming new scenes for his smash TV series "Peter Andre: My Life" near the Dungeness B power station in Kent, little did he know that the plant was spilling a radioact...
An international chemical firm, Tata Chemicals Europe Ltd, has been prosecuted by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) for multiple incidents which put them in breach of th...
Leading environmental figures have condemned Government plans to drop debate about climate change from the national curriculum for children under 14 as "unfathomable and unacceptable".
In a...
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...
