Holyrood in Edinburgh has restated its commitment to a landfill ban that is planned for 2021 - despite chances that it might be pushed back to 2025.
Claims by a spokesperson...
In a report published by the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (Ices), it has been revealed that the North Sea Cod Stocks have fallen to critical levels, a grave issue that will...
The Icelandic nation has held a funeral and presented a plaque to commemorate the once huge Okjokull glacier, now lost as a result of the climate change.
The nation has come toge...
South West Water has offered to pay £350,000 to the Westcountry Rivers Trust to help a Devon river recover from serious pollution that wiped out the local fish population.
The pa...
Accord Housing Association has committed to building 'virtually plastic-free' housing as it attempts to reduce the amount of plastic used during construction.
The West Midlands organisation...
A solar panel company has been fined after a worker fell through a skylight during the installation of solar panels on a farm workshop in East Sussex.
Brighton Magistrates Court heard in Ju...
About 2.2 million fewer single-use cups were used by public bodies in Wales in the last year, a drop of nearly 19%. Hospitals, emergency services, councils and government organisations have said th...
With the fact that one in three workplace deaths are caused by maintenance failures, the Health and Safety Executive for Northern Ireland (HSE NI) and the 26 district counci...
The director of development firm Enzo's Homes, and the firm itself, has been found guilty at Swansea Magistrates' Court of contravening a tree preservation order. It was found that in preparing a s...
In a victorious attempt to stop leftover waste material from wetsuits from going to waste, a small company in Cornwall, Finisterre, has pioneered a formula for a 100% recyclable wetsuit.
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A construction company Clancy Docwra Limited, as well as one of its employees were sentenced for health and safety breaches following a death of an employee struck by an excavator.
On...
South Cambridgeshire's District Council officers staged a 'mock fly tip' as part of an effort to raise awareness of the impacts that stem from improper waste disposal.
Items dump...
Scientists warn that attempts to solve the climate crisis by cutting carbon emissions from only cars, factories and power plants are doomed to failure.
A leaked draft of a Report on climate...
Malfunctioning septic tanks systems are posing great risks to people's health, and the environment in Ireland.
Nearly half of septic tank systems failed inspection in both 2017 and 20...
Two companies have been fined this week after a contractor suffered permanent damage to his eyesight following a fall.
Dudley Magistrates' Court heard how in April 2016 a contractor, who wo...
