Woodlands in the East of England are set to provide fuel for the future after a new project received one of the largest funding awards of its kind in England.
The East of England Development Agency (EEDA) has awarded £4.3 million to increase the use of wood-based energy production.
The £10.7 million Woodfuel East project will help [...]
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Fuel for the future gets EEDA backing
UK based Sci-Tech Systems (Essex) has won the 2008 European Satellite Navigation Competition (formerly the Galileo Masters Competition). Sci-Tech beat nearly 300 other submissions from across Europe to win the title of “Galileo Master”.
The winners Peter Hall, Christine Edwards, David Lewin and Roger Noble, a team of experienced sailing and business enthusiasts from a major sailing centre in East Anglia, received their award from Ann Sta Head of the Galileo Programme Division in the UK’s Department for Transport and one of the UK’s expert [...]
October 23rd, 2008 | John Pickstone | 0 comments | Continued
Fly-tipper gets record jail time
A Hertfordshire man who illegally dumped 85 tonnes of waste was given a record-breaking sentence for fly tipping.Harvey Gibson received a 32-month jail term for "illegally depositing and disposing of controlled waste in contravention of a Waste Management Licence" and of managing a company while he was disqualified.The Environment Agency (EA) brought the case against [...]
October 14th, 2008 | News Service | 0 comments | Continued
Hertfordshire firm to build bottle recycling in Wales
A Hertfordshire-based plastics reprocessor has teamed up with a social enterprise to develop a 20,000 tonne a year recycling plant for PET and HDPE plastics in South Wales.Baylis Recycling and Plastics Sorting, which is part of the community interest company Cleanstream Group, are to use £850,000 in grants to develop the bottle recycling plant at [...]
September 16th, 2008 | News Service | 0 comments | Continued
Hertfordshire’s Polysolar gets £567k grant
A group led by Hertfordshire-based clean technology company Polysolar has received a £567,000 grant to develop photovoltaics that can be used on windows.The Technology Strategy Board (TSB) has announced funding for research into low cost translucent photovoltaic organic polymers, which will start in November as part of a broader £10 million investment int0 16 research [...]
September 4th, 2008 | News Service | 0 comments | Continued
East Herts has biggest carbon footprint
East Hertfordshire residents have topped a list of carbon emitters.A study carried out by York University’s Centre for Sustainability Accounting (CeNSA) discovered that residents of East Hertfordshire have the highest carbon footprint in the country.According to the study, East Hertfodshire residents produce 14.68 tonnes of CO2.St Albans came second in the rankings, notes the St [...]
September 1st, 2008 | News Service | 0 comments | Continued
Hertfordshire pubs to launch green ale
Two Hertfordshire pubs are to become the first to launch a carbon-neutral ale.The Three Hammers and King William IV in St Albans are to serve Adnams’ East Green cask ale in September.The ale, which is grown from aphid resistant hops which require less pesticide than other varieties, has alcohol strength of 4.3 per cent.An Energy [...]
August 29th, 2008 | News Service | 0 comments | Continued
West Herts Hospitals lead NHS energy cuts
West Hertfordshire Hospitals trust is among the leaders in making plans to cut energy use in accordance with Department of Health carbon cutting targets.DoH policy requires the NHS, which currently emits one million tonnes of carbon each year and pays £400 million on energy bills, to cut its emissions by 15 per cent by 2010.According [...]
August 15th, 2008 | News Service | 0 comments | Continued
A Credit for incineration is an act against environment. Zero- waste should be the target, with kryo- recycling:
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