A packaging manufacturer has been fined a total of £52,278 for failing to contribute towards UK packaging recovery and recycling over a period of eight years. Avalon Packaging Ltd, which operates f...
An environmental study has shown that toxic components from up to 1.3 million cars scrapped in Britain were being dumped illegally. Airbags filled with carcinogens and hazardous waste such as mercu...
Details of a planned £50 million plant to turn cooking oil from fast food giants such as McDonalds and Burger King into energy and bio-diesel, have been revealed. Agri-Energy said the plant in Milf...
The Department of the Environment for Northern Ireland (DoE NI) has been challenged to state just how many parts of Northern Ireland are at risk from sewage pollution. It wa...
In yet more sewage news, the newly formed Northern Ireland Water Ltd has already come under fire over raw sewage flowing into Larne Lough, an internationally protected haven...
Omagh District Council has been fined a paltry £6,000, after pleading guilty on four counts relating to the illegal dumping of controlled waste at an area of land adjacent to the council owned play...
Around 8,000 litres of red diesel has been spilled into a County Londonderry lake, prompting fears of an environmental disaster. A specialist clean-up company is currently working to stem the flow...
New Environment Minister Arlene Foster has stated this month that she is committed to leading the way in the battle to offset the Northern Ireland Government's carbon footprint. Speaking as environ...
Part of a Sunderland industrial estate was sealed off this month after a potentially dangerous chemical leak. Around 25 firefighters were called to Onyx Scientific on the Enterprise Industrial Esta...
The Health and Safety Commission (HSC) has announced its decision to move to the next stage of its consultation process on the merger between themselves and the
It has been suggested this month that official figures which show a significant rise in the number of workplace deaths will put pressure on the Government to speed up the introduction of corporate...
A company has been fined a total of £133,000 after a worker was electrocuted. The prosecution followed a Health and Safety Executive (HSE) investigation into an accident whe...
Bedfordshire based piling firm Dawson Wam has been ordered to pay out nearly £110,000 at Chester Crown Court, following the death of a 63-year old piling rig operator. The employee died on 10 May 2...
Slips, trips and falls by staff in contact centres across the North West of England are costing the industry dear. However industry leaders have come together with the Health an...
The new Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2007 will be published in Northern Ireland in the near future, and will consolidate and revise the Construction (Design and Management) Regu...
