News
 
New legislation on packaging waste data reporting is published

A new set of Regulations has been published which requires companies affected by the extended producer responsibility scheme (EPR) to collect data, and in the case of large companies, report on the...

click to continue
Cedrec Environment & Safety Roadshow 2023

Our annual Legislation Update Roadshow is back in April 2023 for the 9th time.

Same as the last couple of years, it will be a combined environment and safety event. As usual, we'll take a l...

click to continue
Report reveals 42% decline in butterfly distribution since 1976

According to a study by Butterfly Conservation, butterfly species have vanished from nearly half of the places where they once flew in the UK since 1976.

The distribution of 58 native speci...

click to continue
Proposed garden village gets £43m funding

Homes England, the Governments housing agency, has announced that it will provide a £43 million investment to help create a new garden village in Darlington. The Burtree Garden Village is aim...

click to continue
$1 trillion in carbon offsets needed for net zero aviation

According to a study by the University of California, Irvine (UCI), for the aviation industry to achieve net zero by 2050, it...

click to continue
EU wind and solar overtake gas power for the first time

According to a new report by the global energy think tank Ember, in 2022 wind and solar generated 22% o...

click to continue
HSE seeks help to develop new principles to support disabled workers

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is conducting a research programme with employers and workers from small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in the human health, hospitality...

click to continue
Landlord ordered to pay £42k in illegal gains

A landlord has been ordered to pay just over £42,000 in illegal gains and £10,000 in fines and costs for sub-standard developments to a basement flat.

The landlord developed one...

click to continue
High Court approves Bristol Airport expansion

On 31 January 2023 campaigners, Bristol Airport Action Network (BAAN), had their legal action to halt the expansion of the airport dismissed.

The expansion, which would see the airport incr...

click to continue
Ireland publish Empty Homes Action Plan

Ireland's housing minister Darragh O'Brien has published a Vacant Homes Action Plan to return as many recoverable vacant proper...

click to continue
CCC claims Government is not spending enough on climate change
click to continue
Government publishes the Environmental Improvement Plan

Less than two weeks after the UK's post-Brexit environmental watchdog, the Office for Environmental Protection, published a damning report on the government's lack...

click to continue
£4.4 million fine for civil engineering firm

A civil engineering firm has been fined more than £4m after workers accidentally damaged overhead powerlines.

Kier's workers twice struck overhead powerlines while working on the M6 m...

click to continue
UK government fails to deliver on Environmental Improvement Plan promises

The UK's own post-Brexit watchdog, the Office for Environmental Protection (OEP) which was created to keep the government in check over its environmental performance, has just published a damning r...

click to continue
A multi-agency action day targeted waste criminals

On 12 January 2023, a multi-agency co-operation lead a proactive action to check a number of waste sites and waste deliveries as part of operation Lyceum and Iris, to crack down on waste criminals....

click to continue