UK’s Costa Coffee, a part of Whitebread, has pledged to recycle over a half a billion takeaway cups per year by 2020, in a bid to prevent them from ending up in landfill. The coffee chain, which plans to recycle at least 100 million ...
Tags: Costa Coffee, Takeaway Cups
Water UK has launched a new scheme in the UK to allow consumers to refill plastic water bottles in public places to help reduce the plastic use. People will be able to refill water bottles for free in tens of thousands of places in ...
Tags: Plastic Bottle
Hive has launched a new subscription service that turns your house into a smart home for as little as £5.99 every month. Dubbed Hive Welcome Home, the new scheme sees users’ homes fitted with smart, connected technology on a ...
Tags: Hive, smart home
Last week Apple finally admitted the 'touch disease' problem with certain iPhone 6 and 6 Plus models, and now it has acknowledged a battery issue with the 6S. The company is offering to replace batteries in phones manufactured between ...
Carpetright's fitting service has been endorsed by Which? Trusted Traders. Having successfully passed the Which? Trusted Traders assessment, Carpetright's fitting service now carries the Which? Trusted Traders Approved Service endorsement ...
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The Australia and New Zealand Ministerial Forum on Food Regulation (the Forum) met in Hobart today and considered a range of food regulation matters. The Forum comprises all Australian and New Zealand Ministers responsible for food ...
Tags: food regulation, food safety
After spending two years on Beijing's monthly ballot for car license plates, seen as the best way of curbing traffic congestion in the capital, my neighbor Jiao Wen finally decided to go electric to avoid what was starting to look like long ...
Tags: EV Sector, electric vehicle
Sheffield City Council has unveiled exciting new plans that will transform the heart of Sheffield city centre and significantly increase its ranking as a key performing retail centre in the UK. The proposed £480m scheme, designed ...
The company is looking to promote the full choice of Coca-Cola variants, including Coca-Cola, Diet Coke, Coca-Cola Zero and Coca-Cola Life, with the product unification. The company’s recent research showed that not all British ...
The Union Cabinet has approved the launch of Deendayal Upadhyaya Gram Jyoti Yojana (DDUGJY) with components (i) to separate agriculture and non agriculture feeders facilitating judicious rostering of supply to agricultural and ...
Tags: feeders, consumers, Electrical
The British Fashion Council and eBay announces the launch of an exciting new initiative, BFC Contemporary, sponsored by eBay. BFC Contemporary aims to strengthen the UK’s contemporary ready-to-wear and accessory offering by ...
Tags: BFC&eBay, Apparel, Accessories
Mini Luma LED street light from Philips Warrington Borough Council is replacing two thirds of the 27,000 street lights across the borough. The council is investing £25 million to upgrade its street lighting columns and ...
Tags: LED Street Lighting, LED, Street Lights, Lights
Quantum mechanics offers the potential for creating communication technologies with an inherently higher security level than today's classical technologies. Using quantum digital signatures (QDS), for example, messages can be sent to ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, Electronics
The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) has approved the continuation of the Mill Gate Price Scheme (MGPS), along with 10 percent subsidy component with modifications. The scheme is now renamed as the Yarn Supply Scheme (YSS). ...
Tags: yarn prices, Textile
A meeting of the Legislative and Governance Forum on Food Regulation (the Forum) has decided there needs to be a monitoring system to track the effectiveness of the proposed Front-of-Pack Labelling (FoPL) system for food. The meeting, ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food