In an attempt to secure a new global deal to combat climate change, the world's richest nations have agreed to cut carbon emissions by 80% by 2050.
Leaders at the G8 Italy summit agreed for...
The Brazilian Government has said it will lodge a formal complaint with the World Trade Organisation (WTO), over the alleged export of illegal waste from the UK. The move comes as three men were a...
Building site employer Colin Holtom has been jailed for three years for the manslaughter of a 15-year-old construction worker.
The worker died instantly from massive head injuries when a wa...
The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) have announced they intend to manage the transposition of the revised Waste Framework Directive
A construction worker is critically ill after falling into an empty water tank in County Down. The accident happened on a site in the Ashley Drive area in Bangor on Friday 26 June.
It took...
The collapse of conciliation talks in Brussels this month mean that the UK will keep its opt-out from the EU Working Time Directive 2003/88/EC. As a result, UK employees will continue to be allowed...
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) have this month warned about the dangers of working close to overhead power lines, after a Perthshire soft fruit farming company and it...
Northern Ireland is drowning under the amount of rubbish it produces, Environment Minister Sammy Wilson has warned. The Minister told an Institute of Directors lunch in Belfast, that while progres...
A Wearside man who killed his best friend by running over him with a 20-tonne dumper truck has been jailed. David Liddle died when he was struck by the vehicle, driven by James Johnston, at Sunderl...
Angry Falkirk residents are concerned as to how a major drinks company managed to "sneak" an extra 35,000 tonnes of whisky into its bond without permission. The Bonnybridge group is furious after...
Packaging producers appear to have comfortably met their packaging recycling targets for 2008, despite concerns they might struggle due to the sharp fall in materials prices. The
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is prosecuting three companies and one individual following its investigation into a fatal scaffolding collapse, at the McAteer & R...
Health and safety considerations mean workers are no longer allowed to use steps on the backs of moving lorries. For years the sight of bin men riding on the back of refuse trucks, a practice which...
This year saw the introduction of legislation which required anyone intending to carry out a construction project in England costing more than £300,000 to prepare a site waste management plan (SWMP...
The European Council of Ministers has adopted the revised Waste Framework Directive, a decision that means the UK will now be expected to reach a 50% household recycling rate by 2020.
