Waste management licences and pollution prevention controls are set to be restructured to cut the cost and burden of red tape for businesses, the Government have announced with the publication of t...
Environment Minister Joan Ruddock has this month set out proposals for a consultation which means that more packaging will be recovered and recycled. If the proposed measures are successful, new bu...
The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) has announced that proposals aimed at reducing the 109 million tonnes of waste produced annually on constructi...
Up to £25 million is to be spent on retrieving the most dangerous radioactive particles that escaped from the Dounreay nuclear plant in Scotland 40 years ago, and are now embedded in the seabed. Hu...
From this month, car washing businesses will now have no excuse for allowing run-off to pollute waterways after the Environment Agency published new good-practice guidance....
Plans for the world's biggest wave energy project were today given the green light by ministers. The £4 million project located in Orkney, Scotland, will deliver enough power for 2,000 homes using...
Two construction executives have this month pleaded not guilty to 14 charges, following the death of a County Down teenager on his first day at work on a construction site. Leslie Wright from Wrig...
Fire Appliances from Coleraine, Portrush, Ballymoney and Portstewart tackled a potentially hazardous fire at a carpet showroom in the early hours of 15 September 2007. Police are currently investig...
Tackling absenteeism can be a major factor in an organisation's success, a Belfast conference was told this month. Delegates gathered in the city on 6 September to explore ways of dealing with the...
Agriculture Minister Michelle Gildernew has briefed the Health and Safety Executive for Northern Ireland (HSE NI) on the response to the latest foot-and-mouth outbreak in En...
Northern Ireland is gearing up for this year's European Week for Safety and Health at Work, which will run from 22 - 26 October 2007. It will focus on musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs), which are th...
On 14 September 2007, the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Investment (DETI) published the Health and Safety at Work Order (Application to Environmentally Hazardous Subst...
An innovative way of dealing with the lorry loads of sludge waste produced at sewage treatment plants is this month being demonstrated to the Environment and Heritage Service
A new recycling facility capable of processing thousands of tonnes of waste has been officially opened in Newry, County Down. Environment Minister Arlene Foster was on hand to open Urban Forest Lt...
Fermanagh District Council has this month begun manning some of its civic amenity sites around the county, in an effort to tackle the problem of unapproved waste being dumped at the skip sites. Ou...
