The UK's leading environment, water, land and sustainable business event SustainabilityLive! has opened its doors at the NEC, Birmingham, and as one of the official media provider's edie can be found at stand T51.
There are large opportunities for food businesses who 'get it right' in terms of supply chain sustainability and resilience, according to UK champion for Global Food Security Professor Tim Benton.
Waste Recycling Group (WRG), one of the major players in the municipal waste market, has rebranded as FCC Environment as it looks to strengthen its presence in the renewables sector.
A greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reduction scheme has seen Edinburgh Airport and Edinburgh Napier University become the first organisations to pass the standard.
Telecoms giant O2 has joined forces with the Carbon Trust to measure the carbon footprint of its services - becoming, it has claimed, the first network operator to gain certification.
British households are individually throwing away £800 worth of electrical appliances every year that could be reused or recycled according to new research.
Nestlé Waters claims to have developed the UK's lightest bottled water product with the opening of its new £35m production factory in Buxton last week.
Managing business customer expectations and creating a sustainable water supply legacy needs to be the challenge water companies address, according to Thames Water and Ofwat.
Britain needs to de-fossilise its ground transport sector before the 'bonanza' of North Sea oil runs out says Sir David King, director of Oxford's Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment.
Hormel Foods, the company behind the Spam brand, has exceeded its first set of five-year sustainability goals for reductions in waste, water and packaging.
Last year saw a record number of merger and acquisition deals in the waste sector despite a 15% fall in material arisings and continuing concerns around access to finance.
New research being presented to Parliament today (May 17) indicates that attempts to encourage some of the UK's largest organisations to cut carbon have been hit by a change in government policy.
Businesses must take a long-term view to sustainability reporting if they want create cost savings, improve resource efficiency and attract investors, according to a Defra spokesperson.
The new duty to cooperate may not be sufficient to deliver the UK's urgently needed waste infrastructure, the Local Government Association (LGA) has warned.
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