With a matter of days to go until the Northern Ireland workplace goes smokefree, Belfast City Council is in the process of visiting every single business to help final preparations. The council has...
The Government has this month announced the much anticipated Climate Change Bill, which aims to cut the UK's carbon dioxide emissions by 60% by the year 2050. The draft legislation will go to publi...
Fly-tipping is taking place on a "massive scale" across the UK, the Countryside Alliance has warned. Some 2.5 million cases of illegal dumping were recorded between April 2005 and 2006, with 1,249,...
The UK is among 11 European countries criticised this month by major electronics manufacturers and green activists alike, for the way in which Directive 2002...
The Department of the Environment, Food and Rural Affair's (DEFRA) long-awaited new waste strategy for England is now expected to be published in May. Speaking at a Chartere...
Who would have thought a black, three inch device could create so much satisfaction! But the e-cube could save more more greenhouse gas emissions than taxes on gas guzzling cars, low energy lightbu...
A consultation looking at proposals for the enforcement of EC Regulation 1907/2006, on the Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals (REACH) in th...
Water bills which were due to be posted out on Tuesday 27 March have been put on hold for 12 months, following the news that power-sharing will return to Northern Ireland. Secre...
The first official trials of a "pay as you throw" rubbish scheme have started in Northern Ireland, paving the way for potential wheelie bin taxes. Nearly 250,000 households have had microchips fitt...
A pioneering large-scale biodiesel plant based in Ulster has launched production this month, and is supplying fuel to a leading green charity. The team behind the fuel plant at Laurencetown, near C...
The Construction (Design and Management) Regulations SI 2007/320 are still on course to come into force on 6 April 2007, despite concern from certain groups. The Forum of Pr...
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has produced new guidance to help employers tackle the issue of contact dermatitis in the workplace. Contact dermatitis is an allergic...
Office workers who spend long hours at their desk may be more prone to potentially fatal blood clots than passengers on long-haul flights, according to new research. Deep vein thrombosis (DVT) is t...
Greater Manchester Waste Ltd have been fined a total of £56,750 at Manchester's Minshull Street Crown Court, after pleading guilty to three charges related to an incident where an employee su...
It has been reported this month that a substance which is more than one million times more radioactive than uranium, was lost by a university for five days. The radium 226 went missing from York Un...
