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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Land Pollution

Activists found guilty of coal station plot
Guardian Unlimited | 14 Dec 2010
Campaigners who planned to shut down coal-fired power station convicted of conspiracy to commit aggravated trespass. Environmental activists who were arrested before they could execute a planned shutdown of a coal-fired power station near Nottingham in April last year were today convicted of conspiracy to commit aggravated trespass.The 20 campaigners were among 114 detained on Easter Monday 2009 in the largest pre-emptive police operation against environmentalists ever mounted in the UK.

Bitter fruit: The truth about supermarket pineapple
Guardian Unlimited | 01 Oct 2010
These days, sweet pineapple come with a sour aftertaste, with production marred by allegations of environmental damage, union-busting, chemical poisoning and poverty wages. Late morning, and the suffocating heat of Costa Rica's rainy season has turned the air over the plantation leaden. On the horizon, where the spikes of thousands of pineapple plants merge into a grey-green fog, sits a spraying machine.

Farming Practices | Human Rights and Environment | Land Pollution | Soil Degradation

Landfill targets met a year early
BBC | 01 Sep 2009
Councils meet EU landfill targets a year early, but Powys and Ceredigion use the most of their allowances.

Land Pollution | Waste | Waste Management

Landfill waste to produce energy
BBC | 28 Jul 2006
Methane produced by two Fife landfills is to be used to generate enough electricity to power 4,500 homes.

"Significant risk" of UK failing landfill targets
LetsRecycle.com | 26 Jul 2006
The government needs to force the 25 worst landfilling disposal authorities to reduce their landfill volumes if the UK is to have any hope of meeting landfill diversion targets in 2010, the National Audit Office said today.

Councils failing to meet local waste targets
Epolitix.com | 26 Jul 2006
Local authorities look set to miss targets on reducing the amount of biodegradable waste sent to landfill disposal sites, according to a report from parliament's spending watchdog.

Development of a Framework for Assessing the Suitability of Controlled Landfills
Foundation for Water Research | 21 Jul 2006
Sniffer commissioned this project on behalf of the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA), Environment and Heritage Service, Northern Ireland (EHS), Scottish Executive and the Environment Agency for England and Wales

Biodiversity Conservation | Land Pollution | Land Tenure Issues | Water Management | Water Pollution

Lax landfill traders will be fined - Bradshaw
Environment Data Interactive Exchange | 19 Jul 2006
Local authorities that fail to reduce the amount of waste going to landfill using the Government's new trading scheme will be fined, waste management minister Ben Bradshaw has said.

Environmental Awareness | Education | and Public Participation | Environmental Impacts

Hands sells UK landfill giant to Spanish for £1.4bn
The Independent | 18 Jul 2006
Guy Hands' private-equity group has made about £1bn profit from investing in the waste disposal market after selling the UK's biggest landfill site operator for £1.4bn yesterday.

Industry reminder as landfill ban on tyres approaches
LetsRecycle.com | 11 Jul 2006
Businesses are being reminded that they can no longer send any used tyres to landfill sites after this weekend.

Prices remain low in landfill allowance trading scheme
LetsRecycle.com | 29 Jun 2006
Prices for landfill allowances remain low in the second year of the Landfill Allowance Trading Scheme in England. Council finance officers are being urged by their waste officers to provide funding early, to purchase landfill allowances before prices rise.

Targeting air pollution, poor nations aid climate
today.reuters.co.uk | 08 Jun 2006
China's car efficiency standards are tougher than those of many industrial states -- a somewhat surprising fact that reveals how efforts by developing nations to limit pollution may also help brake global warming.

Road and dam building 'threaten Indian fish supplies'
SCIDEV.NET | 18 May 2006
Scientists have warned that development projects in the northeast of India are degrading rivers and putting fish populations at risk of extinction.

Government welcomes report on affordable rural housing
DEFRA - Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs | 18 May 2006
A new report which highlights the need for more homes to help families in rural areas has been welcomed by Housing Minister, Yvette Cooper and Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs David Miliband.

China says south coast water pollution "serious"
Reuters | 18 May 2006
China has admitted that measures to tackle "serious" water pollution in the southern booming province of Guangdong are not working, state media reported on Wednesday.

Industry given a licence to pollute
WWF-UK | 17 May 2006
Newly released figures confirm that European countries have failed to set sufficiently tough limits on pollution from industry.

Disposable nappies: a looming environmental threat?
The Independent | 12 May 2006
Third World mothers have always managed fine without disposable nappies. But if a big new marketing push succeeds, says Hilary Solly, it could spell disaster for the environment

Buncefield air quality findings published
DEFRA - Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs | 10 May 2006
It is unlikely that pollutants emitted after the Buncefield Oil Depot explosion of December 2005 had widespread impacts on air quality at ground level, a report published today has confirmed.

Toxic warnings for nano industry
BBC | 05 May 2006
Industry should disclose how it tests products containing nanoparticles, the Royal Society of the UK has said.

Industry urged to be open about nano testing
Reuters | 05 May 2006
Scientists urged industry on Thursday to disclose how it conducts safety tests for products containing nanoparticles.

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