Category: Environment

A new device has been unveiled which could provide homeowners with a convenient way of monitoring how much energy they are using – and how much it is costing.

Eight of Britain’s leading companies yesterday launched a campaign to help shoppers cut carbon dioxide emissions. The move is designed to encourage families to reduce household emissions by one tonne – or 10% – over the next three years.

British Gas on Thursday 19th of April, launched a green business arm to drive its offer of low carbon products for customers who want to reduce their carbon footprints.

During a conference in London speaking social enterprise Remploy said that most domestic waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) was not fit for re-use. Remploy claims that the business electronics is the biggest single opportunity for re-use was from industrial sources.

Europe’s leading domestic appliance-makers are demanding fiscal incentives to persuade consumers to switch to more energy-efficient dish-washers and fridge-freezers and help the EU meet its ambitious targets for cutting carbon emissions. Bosch, Beko, Electrolux, Indesit, Philips and other manufac…

Dealers may be forced to “challenge” and inform the authorities of rogue producers under the forthcoming WEEE Directive. After several delays, the Depart­ment of Trade and Industry finally launched the guidance notes for the Directive last week ““ 11 weeks after the regulations were p…

Confused about WEEE? Well if you are you’re not alone, it seems that there are a lot of people confused by the new legislation and even more that simply don’t know the first thing about it. In an effort in trying to combact this lack of knowledge the DTI (Department of Trade and Industry) have an…

Key Recycling calls for businesses and local authorities to take a proactive stance to the WEEE regulations, and see beyond the need to comply Recycling experts Key Recycling, part of the Key Eco Group based in Scotland, are calling on businesses and local authorities to take a proactive stance t…

In case you missed it and, it’s very possible that you did, the beleaugered WEEE Regulations passed into law a couple of days ago. The regulations are an attempt at ensuring manufacturers pick up the tab for the disposal of their products at the end of their life, thus minimising the environmenta…

At a meeting organized by European appliance industry association CECED, the government of Bulgaria said that it will revisit a controversial product fee plan that was earlier adopted as part of the nation’s package of measures to transpose and implement the WEE Directive, governing waste electri…