The UK government is being urged by campaigners to ban the export of plastic waste to all countries, invest in domestic recycling industry, and set a binding target for plastic reduction.
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Major new trials across the UK should see carbon dioxide be sucked from the air using trees, peat, rock chips, and charcoal in major new trials across the UK.
The £30 million project...
In August 2020 the Government published a planning white paper entitled 'Planning for the Future' which set out new ambitions for a different planning system. Part of the pl...
Local residents are being asked by the RSPB to keep watch over two hen harriers that have made a nest on a nature reserve in Cumbria. Concerns have been raised after two other endangered raptors di...
The Secretary of State for the environment, George Eustice has outlined a series of plans to protect and restore the UK's nature, address the climate and biodiversity crisis...
Greenpeace has published a report suggesting that over half of the household plastic waste sent for recycling is shipped abroad and most of it goes to countries with low recycling rates. Around 40%...
In a move to reduce plastic pollution, the UK grocery giant Tesco is removing all plastic rings and shrink wrap that keeps the cans of alcoholic beverages together in multipacks from its stores.
Climate change is perhaps the most important global issue right now and, according to science, cannot be ignored for a moment longer. That is why Governments around the world are putting in place n...
An appeal has been rejected for the fourth time to use an airstrip in the North Yorkshire Moors. The appellant applied for the weekly private use of an airstrip but was rejected to prevent disturbi...
Under the Coronavirus Act 2020, local authority meetings, including planning committee meetings, have been held virtually in order to help stop the spread of Covid-19.
Provisions of the Cor...
An employee sustained serious injuries when they were hit by a clamp truck in a paper reel shed at Port of Sheerness Limited.
The employee was hit by the five tonne clamp truck leaving him...
Ikea has made plans to invest an extra £3.4 billion in renewable energy by the end of 2030 to build wind and solar farms. It also plans to fit stores with electric van charging points.
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On 20 April the UK Government announced it wanted to cut carbon emissions by 78% by 2035 compared to 1990 levels, in line with the recommendations made by the Committee on Clima...
Stonehill MOT Centre Ltd of Stockley Meadows, Cambridgeshire, has been prosecuted following an incident in 2017 that killed an agricultural engineer.
On 21 April 2017, an experienced agricu...
Manufacturing company, Amber Industries Limited, has been prosecuted following an incident that led to life-changing injuries for an apprentice.
In November 2018, a 17 year old apprentice e...
