UK retail sales for May underline the growing importance of online sales, which “saved retailers’ bacon”, last month, according to consultancy firm KPMG. Online sales 'saved retailers' bacon' in May, said KPMG ...
Tags: British Retail Consortium Sales Monitor, Online sales, KPMG
Australian stocks finished lower as investors sold off mining stocks due to weaker commodity prices. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was 38.3 points, or 0.78 per cent, lower at 4888.3 points, while the broader All Ordinaries index was 40.3 ...
Tags: Commodity Price, Rio Tinto, BHP Billiton
Sterilization packaging supplier Perfecseal, a division of Bemis, has joined the Healthcare Plastics Recycling Council (HPRC). HPRC is a technical coalition of peers across the healthcare, recycling and waste management industries. The ...
ALEXANDRIA, Va. — It was a good week for the bedding industry on the mattress recycling front. In Connecticut, the nation's first mattress recycling bill was signed into law by Conn. Gov. Dannel Malloy. The bill, supported by the ...
Food waste will be sent to anaerobic digesters which will convert the waste into energy. The Co-operative, which has one of the largest and most diverse food retail estates across the UK, is extending its waste back-haul initiative to ...
The European Organisation for Nuclear Research, CERN, is on the verge of signing a new contract for IT service management (ITSM) software with ServiceNow - as long as the vendor provides enough visibility to ensure that CERN will not be ...
Tags: CERN, Computer Products
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Deputy Mayor for Operations Cas Holloway and Sanitation Commissioner John Doherty have announced the expansion of the city’s recycling program. The program will include the recycling of all ...
Tags: Recycling Program, New York City
The Indian Government has introduced an amendment bill in the Goa assembly seeking to charge 2% tax on packaging material that is non-biodegradable. Bottles and containers are included in the material, timesofindia.indiatimes.com ...
American Textile Recycling Service is excited to bring its textile recycling mission to the Nashville Earth Day Festival, Saturday, April 20th at Centennial Park in Downtown Nashville. A free, family-oriented event, the Nashville Earth ...
Tags: Textile
Hong Kong (HKSAR) - A roving exhibition organised by the Environmental Protection Department (EPD) with the aim of encouraging public participation in glass bottle recycling moved to the ground floor of Telford Plaza in Kowloon Bay today ...
Tags: Roving Exhibition, Glass Bottle
Cemex has signed a research agreement with the Earth Engineering Center (EEC) at Columbia University and the City College of New York, for a study that will investigate the life cycle effects of alternative fuel use in cement manufacturing. ...
Tags: Cemex, Alternative Fuels Study, Construction
Visitors can build their own programme from over 30 sessions across all three days of the event, while still allowing time to explore the technologies and services being demonstrated on the show floor. The show runs from 14-15 May at teh ...
Tags: North Print, Packaging
Leading Australian-owned company Materials Handling reached a major milestone last week, celebrating 32 years in business. John Brittain, a well-known identity in the materials handling industry, launched the company on April 10, 1981 ...
Tags: Materials Handling, Electrical
British Solar Renewables Limited has successfully secured planning permission for a 20MW solar farm on land attached to a waste management and recycling facility close to Bournemouth International Airport in Parley, Dorset. When complete, ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, solar
Australians are being urged to help set a new world record for the most e-waste collected for recycling between 20 and 28 April 2013 to tackle what is thought to be the nation’s fastest growing waste problem. TechCollect, a new ...
Tags: E-Waste Recycling, World Record