In recent times, vinyl flooring has almost become a default option, as far as flooring is concerned. From residential apartments to hospitals, shopping malls to offices, vinyl flooring is being extensively used as an affordable, attractive, ...
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Coca Cola Amatil (CCA) has attacked the Northern Territory's cash-for-containers recycling scheme, saying it's old fashioned and inefficient, and will increase the price of soft drinks. CCA chairman David Gonski said the company's own ...
Homing in on many brick-and-mortar retailers' most daunting concerns—how to survive and thrive amid online price slashing and better market themselves in the crowded digital marketplace—the second edition of the IBD Summit ...
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Polythene manufacturer Duo UK has bagged a new contract from environmental charity Keep Britain Tidy. Duo will manufacture green sacks used for the charity's 'Big Tidy Up' campaign ensuring they are manufactured from 100% recycled ...
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A comparison test between the BMW M135i, Volkswagen Golf R, Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution X and Subaru WRX STI?might seem like a war between Germany and Japan, but it isn't. Nor is it a showdown between rear- and all-wheel drive. Simply, the ...
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Mickelson is a recent graduate of the Pratt Institute of New York and has been working on a concept called ‘The disappearing package’, in which he demonstrates how, with a simple re-design, much of a package can be minimised or ...
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When it comes to the business of lighting properties - be they commercial or domestic - the practices of being kind to the environment and cutting back on costs really do come hand in hand. All too often, the very process of being ...
WikiHouse.cc was designed as an open-source construction kit that lets people create and share home designs and then "print" pieces using machines available for as little as a few thousand dollars. It is part of the effort by the ...
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Such excitement. The technology media world has been whipping itself into a frenzy of speculation and Dick Tracy jokes during the past couple of weeks since two US newspaper reports that Apple is working on a new gadget - the iWatch. ...
Europe is failing to manage its resources sustainably, unnecessarily sending valuable materials to incineration and landfill, according to a report published by Friends of the Earth Europe. The European Union currently landfills and ...
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Two billion tonnes of food never makes it on a plate – this was the headline that grabbed the nation’s attention mid-January, putting the food industry and its practices under the microscope again, re-igniting the debate on ...
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Google's donation of 15,000 Raspberry Pi computers and last week's decision by Education Secretary Michael Gove to add computer science to the English Baccalaureate (EBacc) are a mere "diversion" from the UK's real problems in IT education, ...
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If ‘Horse-gate’ has anything to tell us, it’s that tight margins make for cut corners. Lessons, no doubt, will be learned. However, as any fool knows: pay peanuts and you’ll get monkeys (maybe even to eat). An ...
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Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt has declared that "the NHS cannot be the last man standing as the rest of the economy embraces the technology revolution". Expert predicts government NHS data-sharing plans spell end for patient privacy NHS ...
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As Microsoft launches Windows 8, and with it, an attempt to stabilize a precipitous decline in its share of operating systems for "personal devices," 2013 is going to be a tough, very tough year, research firm Forrester said today. "This ...
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