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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Manufacturing and Environment

Sainsbury's excessive packaging case dropped
Guardian Unlimited | 11 Oct 2010
Trading standards officers in Lincolnshire dropped a landmark legal case against Sainsbury's over unneccessary packaging. Trading standards officers in Lincolnshire today dramatically dropped a landmark legal case against supermarket giant Sainsbury's over excessive and unneccessary packaging,...

Eco-concrete made from rice husks
BBC World Service | 13 Apr 2010
British and Indian scientists work together to make concrete from rice husks and coal ash to help tackle climate change.

United Kingdom | Cleaner Technologies | Greenhouse Gas Emissions | Manufacturing and Environment

Current economic growth model is 'immoral', says Prescott
Guardian Unlimited | 04 Sep 2009
With the world's population growing to nine million by 2050, the Britain's former deputy PM predicts far more crucial and complex talks in Copenhagen than in Kyoto

World Court to Decide on Uruguay Mills Construction
Planet Ark | 13 Jul 2006
The highest court of the United Nations will rule on Thursday whether Uruguay has to suspend the construction of two giant pulp mills that neighbouring Argentina says will harm the environment.

Encroachment on Ecosystems | Manufacturing and Environment | Water Pollution

News: New plastic bottle from biodegradable corn is fit for compost
Environment Times | 07 Jul 2006
Belu Natural Mineral Water has launched the UK's first biodegradable and compostable plastic bottle.

Corporate Social Responsibility | Manufacturing and Environment

China opens high-altitude Tibet railway
Yahoo! News | 01 Jul 2006
China opened the world's highest railway on Saturday, celebrating the link to Tibet as a feat of national strength and ethnic harmony while critics decried it as a threat to Tibetan culture and the environment.

Global Warming | Manufacturing and Environment | National Policies and Environmental Laws | New Technologies | Pollution Impacts

Dell expands program for recycling computers
International Herald Tribune | 29 Jun 2006
Dell has said it would offer free recycling of any of its machines, regardless of whether their owners were buying replacement systems from Dell.

Glacier gold mine 'will taint pristine valley with cyanide'
The Independent | 21 Jun 2006
The world's biggest gold mining company is locked in a battle with conservationists over the future of a remote Chilean valley where campaigners say a proposed mine will threaten water supplies and destroy the environment.

Manufacturing and Environment | Mining and Environment

Greenpeace says M&S is the best
The Independent | 19 Jun 2006
For decades, British supermarkets have fought to provide the cheapest baked beans, knickers and fish fingers. But this year's battle on the high street is for the "green pound", and environmentalists have declared one store the winner: Marks and Sparks.

BP sets up lab to find greener car fuels
Guardian Unlimited | 16 Jun 2006
BP promised yesterday to spend $500m (£285m) establishing a dedicated energy laboratory aimed at using the emerging knowledge from bioscience to find greener car fuels.

Firms 'to waste £500m of energy'
BBC | 16 Jun 2006
UK businesses will waste more than £500m worth of energy over the summer months, a report has said.

HSBC named sustainable bank of the year
Environmental Finance | 16 Jun 2006
HSBC has bagged the title of sustainable bank of the year at the Financial Times Sustainable Banking Awards.

Big businesses named 'dirtiest' in Europe
Sunday Herald | 15 May 2006
Some of Britains biggest corporations are among the dirtiest in Europe. Scottish and Southern Energy (SSE), Shell and BP have all been outed for poor environmental performances by an authoritative new study.

Carbon market to treble in value in 2006 – World Bank
Environmental Finance | 12 May 2006
The global carbon market could be worth $25-30 billion in 2006, based on volumes in the first four months of the year, according to the World Bank. Some $7.5 billion worth of carbon contracts changed hands up to the end of April, compared with almost $11 billion in the whole of 2005, the Bank's sixth annual market survey found*.

Tesco - the new green chameleon?
Friends of the Earth- England, Wales and N.Ireland. | 26 Apr 2006
Friends of the Earth gave a cautious welcome to Tesco's new environment fund, announced, but said the supermarket giant still had a very long way to go if it was serious about greening its operations.

Technology boost for millions of Chinese farmers
SCIDEV.NET | 25 Apr 2006
Millions of Chinese farmers are to gain access to new technologies and be taught how to use them under a US$8 million project launched last week (20 April).

Deep blue sea
Guardian Unlimited | 24 Apr 2006
David Cameron's Arctic tour came at a critical time: the climate is in crisis. But his bright green promises seem about as reliable as the planet's ice

Shedding light on call to ban bulb
BBC | 21 Apr 2006
In February, Dr Matt Prescott used the Green Room to call for the traditional light bulb to be banned. This week, he responds to some of the comments and questions raised by readers.

Britain now 'eating the planet'
BBC | 17 Apr 2006
The UK is about to run out of its own natural resources and become dependent on supplies from abroad, a report says.

Panama Canal set for $7.5bn revamp
BBC | 05 Apr 2006
For nearly 100 years the Panama Canal has been a key link in international shipping routes, handling an estimated 5% of world trade each year.

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