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Nestlé shows real bottle in lightweight packaging
Nestlé Waters claims to have developed the UK's lightest bottled water product with the opening of its new £35m production factory in Buxton last week.
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The Big Question
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Opinion
GHG reporting - an international context
Institute of Environmental Management & Assessment (IEMA) executive director of policy, Martin Baxter, considers how delaying the decision on mandatory carbon reporting will impact on international sustainability commitments...
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Scotland records accelerated fall in trade waste
Commercial waste arisings are falling at a faster rate than household waste across Scotland according to official figures released yesterday (May 17). ...
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New Thames Tunnel consultation set to launch
Thames Water has unveiled plans to launch an additional four-week consultation round on amendments to its proposed Thames Tunnel project. ...
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Scottish airport and university slash emissions
A greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reduction scheme has seen Edinburgh Airport and Edinburgh Napier University become the first organisations to pass the standard. ...
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O2 unveils carbon footprint of its services
Telecoms giant O2 has joined forces with the Carbon Trust to measure the carbon footprint of its services - becoming, it has claimed, the first network operator to gain certification. ...
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Consumers sitting on e-waste cash mountain
British households are individually throwing away £800 worth of electrical appliances every year that could be reused or recycled according to new research. ...
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Negative energy price spikes can be halved, says Davey
Climate change polices could slash volatility in global oil, gas and coal prices by 50% by 2050, energy secretary Ed Davey has claimed. ...
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Business engagement will drive economy, says Ofwat
Managing business customer expectations and creating a sustainable water supply legacy needs to be the challenge water companies address, according to Thames Water and Ofwat. ...
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Delay to Solar tariff cut is confirmed
DECC confirmed today that the next round of cuts to the Feed-in Tariff for solar PV has been 'delayed'. ...
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ECCC told its time to start replacing North Sea oil
Britain needs to de-fossilise its ground transport sector before the 'bonanza' of North Sea oil runs out says Sir David King, director of Oxford's Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment. ...
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Features
'I've taken blunt questions - and given honest answers'
The winter crisis of 2010/11 has forced Northern Ireland Water to change the way that it operates. In an exclusive interview, chief executive Trevor Haslett gives WWT editor Natasha Wiseman the inside story ...
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Tread with care
With a new international standard being developed for water footprinting, Stuart Crisp, business development director of Concrete Pipeline Systems Association, considers how pipeline materials measure up ...
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MCERTS 'not enough' for complex sites
A successful monitoring system needs more than an Environment Agency MCERTS certificate, argues Steven Tuck of Pollution & Process Monitoring ...
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Melton switches to commingled for cost savings
Responding to deep cuts while also looking to boost environmental performance, one council found that moving to commingled collections ticked all the boxes. Raman Selvon explains why ...
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Scottish Water completes 1.2km tunnel
One of Scotland's largest project in AMP5 has been completed in Airdrie. Scottish Water's William Ancell explains ...
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Harsh reality of water poverty first hand
Twelve volunteers from the water sector in the UK have just returned from a fact-finding mission to Zambia in southern Africa. ...
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Sutton's new collection service slashes costs
Nick Warburton visits Southwest London to see how new working patterns in the council's waste and recycling service have netted £1m in savings ...
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Magazines
Hi-tech help to drive the savings
Water companies are under pressure to perform more efficiently. Andrew Reeks explains how automation technology can optimise a company's performance ...
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'I've taken blunt questions - and given honest answers'
The winter crisis of 2010/11 has forced Northern Ireland Water to change the way that it operates. In an exclusive interview, chief executive Trevor Haslett gives WWT editor Natasha Wiseman the inside story ...
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Melton switches to commingled for cost savings
Responding to deep cuts while also looking to boost environmental performance, one council found that moving to commingled collections ticked all the boxes. Raman Selvon explains why ...
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Compact Chlorometer Duo
The new Palintest Chlorometer Duo offers a new dimension in chlorine testing. Used in conjunction with the DPD standard method developed by Palintest, it provides a level of simplicity and accuracy unrivalled in a portable hand-held instrument....
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'I've taken blunt questions - and given honest answers'
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Turnkey® World Wide Web Interface
Turnkey Instruments are pleased to announce the availability of an internet device server for their range of environmental instruments. This new proprietary device allows you to connect to any Osiris or Topas dust monitor by means of a standard internet or ethernet connection... ...
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Getting the plastics message right
Plastics have been all the talk this week, what with WRAP’s new guidance for local authorities on household rigid plastic packaging collections dropping into officers’ email inboxes.
According to WRAP, an increasing number of coun......
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Is zero waste heading in the wrong direction?
Lately I have been pondering on the term ‘zero waste’ – it’s a neat coin of phrase, a buzzword if you like. It is mainly seen in a positive light, but part of me feels it is also quite deceitful. It reinforces entrenched attit......
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Technology must make a splash
The UK public and media response to the drought situation is fascinating and heartening as phone-ins and commentators scramble to find a peg for the blame and solutions to the problem. Interestingly, callers to Radio 4's You & Yours on 13......
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Sustainable Water
06/09/2012 to 07/09/2012
Victoria Park Plaza, London
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Victoria Park Plaza, London
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Energy Management Forum
03/07/2012 to 03/07/2012
76 Portland Place, London W1
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76 Portland Place, London W1
The Energy Management Forum 2012 is a must attend event for businesses looking to reduce energy consumption, increase efficiency and boost margins.... read more
Webinar: Water - the forgotten impact?
Starts 13/06/2012
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Plugging in EV
30/05/2012 to 30/05/2012
76 Portland Place
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76 Portland Place
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That is interesting. We were discussing this at a meeting this morning (we're www.businesscostconsultants.co.uk). If Scotland...
I hear there's some second hand nuclear plant going cheap in Germany and Japan....
To be fair, if each turbine is 126.5MW (as the story states) then they probably ARE too large, not to mention being a headlin...
Sorry, already posted response yesterday, but did not appear here?! Anyway, good point and that was precisely identified as m...
Presumably the wind farm is not on the National Trust (NT) site or land, in which case the NT should not be wasting subscribe...