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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Plan to ban items from bins to boost recycling
Guardian Unlimited | 17 Mar 2010
Paper and card, food, garden waste and plastics on proposed list of items that would have to be recycledBlack bins for household waste could become a thing of the past under proposals to be published tomorrow to ban almost everything thrown away by households from being sent to landfill.Paper and...
 England | Recycling | Waste Management
Plan to improve recycling centre
BBC | 06 Dec 2009
Work to improve a recycling centre at Whittlesey in Cambridgeshire is due to start on Monday, says the county council.
 Recycling
Shingle recycling to protect town
BBC | 06 Dec 2009
Work will take place on the shingle beach at Seaford to maintain flood defences for the Sussex town.
 Recycling
Bidders aim for £250m waste deal
BBC | 05 Dec 2009
Companies vying for a contract to deal with waste material in North Lincolnshire for the next 20 years have their bids examined.
 Recycling
Recycling spend is 'astonishing'
BBC | 03 Dec 2009
An environment panel criticises recycling schemes in Jersey and claims the island does not fully comply with EU directives.
 Hazardous Waste | Recycling
Look After London
This is London | 03 Dec 2009
A few weeks before I took up my job as the Mayor's food adviser, I went to see some food-growing projects in the capital, the first being in the centre of four ugly grey tower blocks in Tower Hamlets.
 Organic Farming | Recycling
Economic slow down helps Ireland meet waste targets
Environment Data Interactive Exchange | 03 Dec 2009
The Irish authorities have not tried to claim credit for a fall in the amount of rubbish being put out by households, acknowledging that the drop in waste generation is likely to be due to the gloomy economic situation over the past year.
 Recycling
Port admits keeping illegal waste
BBC | 02 Dec 2009
Londonderry Port and Harbour Commissioners and Foyle Recyclers admit breaching environmental legislation at Lisahally docks.
 Recycling
Twelve new 'eco town' sites announced
The Times | 01 Dec 2009
The Government today tried to keep up the momentum for "eco towns" by announcing a further 12 locations where green developments have local council backing.
 Public Transport | Recycling
UK charity SolarAid offers green answer to African energy problems
The Times | 01 Dec 2009
Noel Halawa has never forgotten the plague that destroyed his family's life.
 Recycling
Protest at recycling site threat
BBC | 29 Nov 2009
A campaign starts against plans to close a waste recycling plant in Nottinghamshire as part of budget cuts.
 Recycling
Pulling the plug on festive lights
Guardian Unlimited | 29 Nov 2009
Your tree can twinkle in the corner so long as you invest in LEDs and a timer. After all, even we greens like a white Christmas Nothing marks you out as an eco Scrooge quicker than protesting about non-essential festive lighting. So I refuse to condemn a few tree lights, although there's a lot of truth in the idea that the only really green tree is the one with its roots still in the ground (we ...
 Recycling | Renewable Energy
Britain must try harder
The Times | 28 Nov 2009
The Labour government started well enough on the environment. But now its policies are half-hearted, and progress is at a standstill
 Fossil Fuels | Public Transport | Recycling
Protest over waste site facility
BBC | 28 Nov 2009
A demonstration is held outside a waste recycling site over plans to move it to a Leicestershire village.
 Recycling
Look After London
This is London | 25 Nov 2009
Antigone Theodoro, 32, has been using 'Freecycle', the recycling website, for the last three years. In June she started volunteering for them as the website moderator for the Kensington and Chelsea Borough branch, and dedicates one to two hours a day remotely checking that "all is well on the site" in between studying for her MBA at Cambridge university.
 Recycling
Conservatives promise 'free' £6,500 home energy refits
Telegraph | 25 Nov 2009
Every household under a Tory government will be entitled to claim at least £6,500 in energy home improvements that will mean lower power bills, the Conservatives will say today.
 Recycling
Household recycling on the rise
BBC | 24 Nov 2009
Islanders are recycling more household goods in Guernsey than ever before with an estimated 33% of all waste being recycled.
 Recycling
Boost in recycling and composting for Scotland
Environment Data Interactive Exchange | 24 Nov 2009
Figures from the Scottish Environment Protection Agency reveal the country's yearly recycling and composting rate rose to 35.2% for the year July 2008 to June 2009.
 Recycling
Rail recycling plant to be built
BBC | 24 Nov 2009
A plant that will recycle 25% of the UK's disused rails and sleepers is to be built in a Wiltshire town.
 Recycling
Hull bottom of green cities table
BBC | 19 Nov 2009
For the second year running Hull is ranked bottom of the UK's 20 biggest cities in a report on sustainability.
 Biodiversity | Recycling