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WEEE'LL be coming round a television mountain when it comes

Council leaders have warned that television "mountains" could build up next year in the same way that the high profile fridge mountain crisis hit in 2002. A pay dispute between local authorities an...

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NIMTO for next Kyoto?

The 12th UN Framework Convention on Climate Change in the Kenyan capital Nairobi closed this month, with an "agreement" that greenhouse gas emissions must be halved in the coming years. However, th...

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Waste strategy delayed

Publication of the revised English Waste Strategy has been delayed until early 2007, as the Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) want to make sure...

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Environmental protection proposals courting controversy

The Scottish Executive has announced they are planning to carry out a public consultation on plans to create specialist environmental courts, with the aim of improving the enforcement of environmen...

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Kitchenware company taken to the cleaners

A major kitchenware company that claimed to be unaware of their obligation to recover or recycle a percentage of their packaging waste have been prosecuted for ignoring legislation. Bodem (UK) Ltd,...

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Agency becoming tyred of illegal operations

A recycling company in Hartlepool has been prosecuted for storing and shredding over 120,000 tyres at an unlicensed recycling depot, which sparked a local safety concern. Niramax Recycling and Manu...

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New database to capture illegal dumpers

It has been reported this month, that taxpayers have been left to foot a staggering bill to clean up household waste from the Republic which has been illegally dumped in Northern Ireland. Environme...

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Organisations angling for river action

A quarry complex in Mallusk, County Antrim is currently being investigated following allegations that it has polluted a nearby river in Newtownabbey. The Environment and Heritag...

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County Down turn on the water works

An underground water treatment works has opened in County Down, the first of its kind in Northern Ireland. The £18 million project, which is close to the Fofanny Dam in the Lower Mournes, will supp...

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Apocalypse soon for Ulster

Green campaigners have warned that Ulster could lose its best loved beaches, suffer extreme storms and flooding and face plummeting temperatures unless world leaders act now to stave off climate ch...

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Men lose asbestos battle

Two County Antrim men who launched a legal challenge against plans for an asbestos storage site close to their village have had their case dismissed. As reported in the November Monthly Bulletin, t...

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RSPB demand protection of "crown jewels"

Wildlife campaigners have warned that Ulster's finest wildlife sites could have disappeared by the time the Government gets round to protecting them. The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (...

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Statistics show mixed results for HSC

Statistics published this month by the Health and Safety Commission (HSC) have shown that the number of working days lost in Great Britain due to work-related injury and ill...

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On-call debate "Finnished?"

The Government has come under renewed pressure to set a firm date for ending the individual worker's right to opt-out of the maximum average 48-hour week stipulated by EU law. Finland, the current...

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Criminal record for Hanson

Brick giant Hanson Building Products Ltd has been fined a total of £113,660 under the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974, after a workman fell from a tower and injured...

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