Tesco is following the lead of Marks & Spencer and is trialing a packaging strip developed by It’sFresh! Ltd. in an effort to make food last longer and prevent waste.
Archive for the ‘Technologies’ Category
Tesco, the latest UK Supermarket to tackle food waste with Ethylene-Absorbing Strips
February 9th, 2012 |
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“Green” up your website today!
January 30th, 2012 |
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The Internet uses vast amounts of energy — one Google search reportedly requires enough energy to boil a cup of water. However, the web is slowly but steadily “going green.” As always, there is an issue that going “green” means different things to different people. As more ways to lighten your web site’s environmental footprint are found, it becomes increasingly difficult to choose the combination of steps that is right for your business and for the earth!
£25M Investment in Peterborough, supporting the UK Sustainable Infrastructure
January 28th, 2012 |
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KNM and GEP will now move forward together under an SPV (special purpose vehicle), Energy Park Investment Ltd which will be jointly owned to realise this ground-breaking project, which was granted consent by Ed Miliband (then secretary of state for energy) in November 2009.
COURT OF APPEAL CONFIRMS GOVERNMENT’S SOLAR CUTS ‘ILLEGAL’
January 25th, 2012 |
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Councils ignore £10m fund for food waste processing.
January 24th, 2012 |
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No councils have applied for a share of a £10m fund to install energy-from-food-waste bioprocessing plants, despite the rising cost of existing organic waste disposal and the financial benefits.
Solar feed-in tariff appeal judgment set for tomorrow (25/4/2012)
January 24th, 2012 |
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The Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) has refused to rule out further legal action if it fails to win an appeal tomorrow over its plans to rush through deep cuts to solar subsidies, potentially prolonging uncertainty over the future of the feed-in tariff scheme.
UK Plans for sea energy device Searaser
January 24th, 2012 |
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Energy firm Ecotricity is developing an innovation called Searaser – which they believe could solve two of the biggest challenges facing renewable energy – cost and variable output.
Finance assistance for UK “Have Not” companies to purchase ‘Green’ equipment
January 6th, 2012 |
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Siemens is providing the financial backing; Carbon Trust Implementation Services will use its expertise in energy efficient technologies to independently assess the carbon, energy, and cost savings of any project. This should enable the financing to pay for itself through energy savings and result in no net cost to the customer.
Using U.S datacentre’s & Backup services increasing risk of UK Data Protection Act prosecution
December 28th, 2011 |
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Alarmingly, within the U.K there seems to be a an apathetic attitude towards the accessing of sensitive data by US authorities, many companies are entrusting their data to free services such as Dropbox despite the risk of prosecution under the Data Protection Act should it be proved that Clients information was accessed without permission – even if the 3rd party was the U.S government (yes UK companies are entrusting YOUR data to FREE U.S services! – perhaps you may want to ask how your data is handled before engaging with new companies! )
UK Government halves Solar FIT’s support.
November 2nd, 2011 |
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Britain’s plan to slash state subsidies for solar projects could force many renewable companies into bankruptcy, the head of the UK’s largest independent solar firm claimed yesterday.
Tenants demand new energy efficient green offices! 
Total Heat Recovery saves abattoir 53 tonnes of CO2 
Green Eco deal could attract £12 billion to social housing sector 
