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If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!UK Government Department Defra has issued a report detailing environmental protection spending by UK industry. The report estimates 3.2 billion pounds spent on environmental protection representing 0.6 percent of the industries turnover. Spending on waste management accounted for nearly 30 [...]
A House of Commons Committee has confirmed that when the new waste regulations were introduced last summer a lack of certainty surrounded the key areas of the legislative and regulatory framework, arising from delays in issuing guidance, ambiguity in the legislation and the terms of the associated guidance, and a lack of adequate consultation with [...]
June 5th is United Nations World Environment Day. Find out more and make a personal pledge, by visiting the United Kingdom Environment Agency’s web page …
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SEPA has issued guidance on agricultural waste detailing the controls that are to come into place to make agricultural waste a controlled waste due to the Waste (Scotland) Regulations 2005. This will see an end to practices such as open burning of wastes on farms and farm ‘tips’.
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Glasgow City Council has approved plans to turn a controversial landfill site into Scotland’s largest urban forest. The forest will be the size of around 600 football pitches and is said to be backed strongly by residents many of whom have opposed the site for years.
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