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Marks & Spencer Launches Solar Energy Products in Britain Mr Binman Launches ‘Bag for Life’ With WLR fm Update on Proposed Waste to Energy Facility at Poolbeg, Dublin
 
Marks & Spencer Launches Solar Energy Products in Britain

Marks & Spencer Launches Solar Energy Products in Britain

Mr Binman Launches ‘Bag for Life’ With WLR fm

Mr Binman Launches ‘Bag for Life’ With WLR fm

Update on Proposed Waste to Energy Facility at Poolbeg, Dublin

Update on Proposed Waste to Energy Facility at Poolbeg, Dublin

Blast furnace rebuild strengthens future of steelmaking in Wales

24 August 2010

Corus is to invest £185 million into the No 4 Blast Furnace at Port Talbot steelworks. The investment will make a significant contribution to the sustainability of the steel industry in Wales.  The furnace is to undergo a rebuild, starting in July 2012, which will equip it with technology to improve its safety, environmental performance [...]

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Tackling waste in construction will become easier for building firms as the BRE SMARTWaste tool and WRAP Waste to Landfill Reporting Portal become compatible

Tackling waste in construction will become easier for building firms as the BRE SMARTWaste tool and WRAP Waste to Landfill Reporting Portal become compatible

24 August 2010

Users of SMARTWaste, the BRE web-based tool used to prepare and implement Site Waste Management Plans, can now transfer their waste data directly to the WRAP Waste to Landfill Reporting Portal. Users will benefit by being able to monitor their individual progress against targets, run reports and benchmark themselves against competitors as they rise to [...]

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P&G Future Friendly Joins National Geographic Society, National Geographic Channel and Nat Geo WILD to Launch Interactive School Conservation Program

24 August 2010

P&G’s Future Friendly today announced it has expanded its signature partnership with the National Geographic Society through the launch of an integrated in-school conservation education program called Find Your Footprint. Developed to inspire students, families and schools to monitor and reduce their environmental footprint this school year, the multimedia program focuses on energy, waste and [...]

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Train in the art of Low Carbon Housing Refurbishment with Rickaby Thompson Associates and Scott+MacNeill Architects

Train in the art of Low Carbon Housing Refurbishment with Rickaby Thompson Associates and Scott+MacNeill Architects

23 August 2010

A training partnership between Irish architects and a UK energy consultancy has led to this cutting edge course in low carbon housing refurbishment to be developed specifically for Ireland. The course gives building and housing professionals the chance to learn about the practical issues that are essential knowledge for anyone considering a housing refurbishment project, [...]

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IBAL launches ‘Litter Twitter’ campaign to highlight local blackspots

IBAL launches ‘Litter Twitter’ campaign to highlight local blackspots

23 August 2010

The most recent study by business group Irish Business Against Litter (IBAL) has shown a fall in the number of towns deemed ‘litter free’. Of 53 towns surveyed, just over half received the accolade – down from two-thirds on a similar study last year. IBAL is calling on businesses to clean up outside their premises [...]

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Greenfield Project Management Ltd: Officers announce their resignation

Greenfield Project Management Ltd: Officers announce their resignation

23 August 2010

All but one of the senior officials of Greenfield Project Management Ltd have quit the company, which for the past five years has been attempting to develop a major bioethanol project in Belarus, so far without success. In a statement placed on the former website of the company on 10 August 2010, the former officers [...]

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Thermo Fisher Scientific Expands Presence in China with New Technology Center in Shanghai

Thermo Fisher Scientific Expands Presence in China with New Technology Center in Shanghai

20 August 2010

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, today announced it has opened a Technology Center in Shanghai, building on its engineering and development capabilities to meet the specific needs of customers in China. The Center houses engineers and support staff focused on developing a robust product pipeline to serve China-based customers across [...]

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Cargill smallholder scheme receives RSPO sustainability certification

Cargill smallholder scheme receives RSPO sustainability certification

20 August 2010

Smallholders at Cargill’s oil palm plantation, PT. Hindoli in South Sumatra, Indonesia, have received Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) certification. This is the world’s first smallholder scheme to become certified under the RSPO’s Smallholder Principles & Criteria and is also another important milestone in Cargill’s commitment to producing palm oil in an environmentally sustainable [...]

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Nisa Members Benefit From Going Green

Nisa Members Benefit From Going Green

20 August 2010

Nisa members will be able to make savings of over 75% on their annual membership fees by signing up to help the environment in a move by the group to take its business paperless. As part of Nisa’s ongoing commitment to reduce costs to members it has decided to offer members a paperless membership option for [...]

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Super whisky biofuel to power cars

Super whisky biofuel to power cars

19 August 2010

Topping up at the petrol pump is about to take an intriguing twist thanks to a new super biofuel made from whisky by-products. Edinburgh Napier University has filed a patent for the new biofuel, which can be used in ordinary cars without any special adaptions. The innovative fuel process has been developed over the last two years [...]

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