Speaking at the RWM 2014 recycling and waste management event at the NEC, Pickles said he has always supported weekly collections and weekly waste food collections, but drew criticism from some sections of the audience – many of whom ...
National small business organisation, the Forum of Private Business, is renewing its call on councils to build on the success of the inaugural Small Business Saturday UK by waiving parking charges for this year's event on 6th December. ...
Six of the stadia for the FIFA World Cup in Russia in 2018 will be assessed under the BREEAM standard. A key sustainable feature of the new stadia will be highly energy efficient lighting designed to achieve international best ...
The European Commission has launched a Green Paper consultation on a possible extension of geographical indication protection to non-agricultural products. In today’s globalised world, consumers are looking for ways to identify ...
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The European Commission has launched a Green Paper consultation on a possible extension of geographical indication protection to non-agricultural products. In today’s globalised world, consumers are looking for ways to identify ...
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At the recent trade industry mission organized by ACIMIT and the ICE- Italian Trade Agency in Mongolia, meetings with the local authorities have confirmed the need for modernizing existing technology for the processing of cashmere. ACIMIT ...
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At the recent trade industry mission organized by ACIMIT and the ICE- Italian Trade Agency in Mongolia, meetings with the local authorities have confirmed the need for modernizing existing technology for the processing of cashmere. ACIMIT ...
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The Alliance for Beverage Cartons & the Environment (ACE) UK has welcomed the latest figures, which it said was equivalent to approximately 425,000 tonnes of cartons recycled, and also showed the total recovery rate was now 71% across the ...
Among the most crucial issues raised during Euratex General Assembly held on June 4th 2014, special attention was paid to the growth of dyestuffs prices. Alberto Paccanelli, President of EURATEX, stressed forcefully that, “the EU ...
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today issued updated draft advice on fish consumption. The two agencies have concluded pregnant and breastfeeding women, those who might become pregnant, and ...
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Beijing bureaucrats are all exhausted just by chasing a sputtering economy and trying to keep it moving. Some fine-tuning here, a bit of state spending there – all with the aim of meeting a GDP growth target. But if they want to stop ...
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According to local authorities, HAZMAT teams and the Lorain Fire Department were dispatched to Lorain, Ohio-based Republic Steel Thursday after chemical fumes led to a plant evacuation. In a statement, the company identified the location ...
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Opel will develop new assistance systems to increase efficiency and safety in urban transport under its participation in the UR:BAN research project (user oriented assistance systems and network management). The goal of the partly German ...
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Groupe Michelin has begun steps to close its truck tire plant in Budapest, Hungary. According to Michelin, the closing is necessary "in response to the adverse trends and aggressive competition in the European truck tire market, which ...
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An explosion Wednesday at Williams' 1.5-Bcf/d Opal Processing Plant in Wyoming was continuing to significantly cut into Rockies flows Thursday and helped lift Western spot gas and forwards prices. Prior to the incident, Opal plant ...
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