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Greenpeace and Facebook will collaborate on the promotion of renewable energy, encourage major utilities to develop renewable energy generation, and develop programmes that will enable Facebook users to save energy and engage their communities in clean energy decisions (1).
The news comes two years after Greenpeace launched its global Unfriend Coal Campaign (2, 3), enlisting 700,000 online activists (4) to call on Facebook to power its datacentres with clean energy instead of coal (5). As a ... [more]
Riverside Waste Machinery, Veolia Environmental Services and Kelpack have helped Derby Hospital’s NHS Foundation Trust achieve significant security, cost and environmental improvements, following investment by the Trust in a new confidential waste management system.
Confidential hospital waste which was previously transported and incinerated off-site to create energy from waste, is now being shredded and recycled in a move which is improving the hospital’s carbon footprint.
Simon Marriott,... [more]
Solarplaza has confirmed the speaker programme for the UK PV Conference, and can now offer a sneak preview of the solar industry event. The conference takes place on 22 June 2010 at Central Hall Westminster, and will bring together more than 150 industry experts from the business sector, the government and regulatory authorities.
Conference participants can expect a range of new perspectives on the UK solar industry, which is set for substantial growth in the wake of the feed-in tariffs (FIT... [more]
Riverside Waste Machinery is to show Futuresource visitors that with the right waste processing solution it is possible to not only make considerable cost-savings, but to improve profitability too.
Having recently unveiled the UNTHA TR series – a new secondary shredding concept for the processing of Refuse Derived Fuel (RDF) substances – Riverside has experienced significant interest from clients looking to make their business more successful by investing in such technological advancements.
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Peatlands are wetlands which are naturally heavily waterlogged and therefore contain reduced oxygen levels to prevent dead plants from fully decaying. Over thousands of years, layers of plant material accumulate and create the material known as peat. As huge areas of bog have already been drained in the past, the carbon which was locked in the peat for thousands of years is now rapidly being released to the atmosphere.
A programme to prevent millions of tonnes of carbon dioxide leaking into... [more]
According to Renewable Fuel Agency’s 2008/9 figures, the UK used 1,029 M litres of bio-diesel in UK transport, of which approximately 65 M Litres were produced from UK feedstock, and of which 34 M Litres were manufactured from UK Used Cooking Oil (UCO).
The government initially announced plans in the 2008 Budget to remove a 20 pence per litre duty differential for all bio-diesel from 2010, arguing that the tax discount could not distinguish between sustainable bio-fuels and those that raise g... [more]
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