Environmental News from United Kingdom

EarthWire UK provides a daily overview of the environment in the UK as reported in the media. The web site is updated every day by a team of editors that reviews media sources for environmental news stories.

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Climber plumps for portable toilets for Everest
Reuters | 18 Nov 2008
KATHMANDU (Reuters) - A young Nepali climber is seeking to popularize a toilet fashioned from a plastic bucket with a lid to promote eco-friendly climbing on Mount Everest.

Waste Management

Climber Plumps For Portable Toilets For Everest
Planet Ark | 17 Nov 2008
KATHMANDU - A young Nepali climber is seeking to popularise a toilet fashioned from a plastic bucket with a lid to promote eco-friendly climbing on Mount Everest.

Waste Management

Climber plumps for portable toilets for Everest
Yahoo! News | 16 Nov 2008
A young Nepali climber is seeking to popularize a toilet fashioned from a plastic bucket with a lid to promote eco-friendly climbing on Mount Everest.

Waste Management

Protesters disrupt European biofuels summit
Guardian Unlimited | 16 Oct 2008
Europe's largest conference on biofuels brought to a halt after environmental activists invade venue

Waste Management

South Africa invests in clean technology
SCIDEV.NET | 16 Oct 2008
[OUDTSHOORN] South Africa launched its first clean technology fund last month (30 September) in Johannesburg with around 400 million South African rand (US$39.3 million) ready for its first investments.

Waste Management

Dublin waste firms will have to bid for contracts
Environment Data Interactive Exchange | 15 Oct 2008
Private waste management firms could be forced to bid for contracts to collect waste instead of having the freedom to "cherry pick" routes.

Waste Management

Badge idea to combat fly-tippers
BBC | 15 Oct 2008
Decent rubbish collecting firms need badges so people can distinguish them from fly-tippers, MPs are told.

Waste Management

Could landfills resurrect Britain's mining industry?
Environment Data Interactive Exchange | 10 Oct 2008
Imagine an air-tight dome with teams of robots working alongside people in space suits as they sift through the corrosive waste of past generations, looking for scraps of plastic and nuggets of precious metals.

Recycling | Waste Management | Climate Change

Recycling robot to drive message home in Tower Hamlets
Environment Data Interactive Exchange | 08 Oct 2008
A massive purple robot has been unleashed on a poorly-performing borough to kick start recycling.

Recycling | Waste Management

Rural waste incinerator approved
BBC | 06 Oct 2008
Plans for an Energy-from-Waste facility in Surrey are approved by the county council's planning committee.

Energy Conservation | Waste Management

Recycling figures show increase
BBC | 03 Oct 2008
More household waste is being recycled in Wales but some councils are still lagging behind, new figures show.

Recycling | Waste Management

Europe fights fire bank by bank. Should it do more?
Yahoo! News | 30 Sep 2008
European capitals dared hope just two weeks ago that banks on this side of the world could weather a financial crisis "Made in America," and that they would do so without recourse to public funds.

Waste Management

Asbestos warship legal bid fails
BBC | 30 Sep 2008
A legal challenge to stop a French aircraft carrier riddled with asbestos being scrapped by a firm on Teesside fails.

Waste Management

Vacuum cleaner caused £10m Cutty Sark fire as guard slept
This is London | 30 Sep 2008
The fire that devastated the historic tea clipper the Cutty Sark could have been caught earlier if security guards had been patrolling the ship properly and one of them had not been asleep in a café, it was revealed today.

Waste Management

No takers for Bhopal toxic waste
BBC | 30 Sep 2008
KS Shaini on why the toxic waste left behind at the site of the world's worst industrial accident is not being removed.

Waste Management | Water Pollution

Oliver Tickell: The UK needs to show commitment to renewable energy
Guardian Unlimited | 27 Sep 2008
Oliver Tickell: The government has done so little to deliver on renewable energy that I doubt its good faith. But here is the remedy

Carbon Storage | Hydropower | Nuclear Waste | Renewable Energy | Waste Management

Agency turns to 'CSI tactics' to catch criminals
Environment Data Interactive Exchange | 25 Sep 2008
He may not have Horatio Caine's sunglasses or Gil Grissom's forensic expertise, but the new chairman of the Environment Agency has pledged to use "CSI techniques" to crackdown on waste criminals.

Waste Management

Supermarkets agree to 50% cut in carrier bags
The Herald | 25 Sep 2008
Supermarkets have agreed to cut the use of carrier bags by 50% in less than a year following a top level meeting with Scottish Government ministers yesterday.

Waste Management

Britain looks to France for nuclear future
Yahoo! News | 24 Sep 2008
By John Bowker TORNESS (Reuters) - Peering down from a viewing gallery high up in Torness nuclear power station, plant director Brian Cowell points out a turbine about the size of a large off-road vehicle.

Waste Management

Climate sceptics have 'heads in sand'
Guardian Unlimited | 22 Sep 2008
Met office says average temperatures have continued their rising trend over the last decade

Waste Management | Climate Change | Global Warming

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