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Weighing waste and taxes

Tuesday, 09 March 2010 10:44 By Chris Innis

Bristol City has announced that it is trailing a scheme where households will pay by weight for the removal of household rubbish. The scheme will allocate a waste level to each household, waste or rubbish will be weighed, and if the household weighs in above its allocation, it will pay more for the removal of its waste. On the face of it, it looks like a great idea. But is it?

One aspect of government in the last 30 years has been that policy changes too often have been made without a thorough examination of the consequences, intended and unintended.

Loos lose less water

Tuesday, 07 April 2009 11:37 By Mark Williams

A London business has announced the start of a pilot scheme to test two innovative toilets which, if used in every home across the country, could save an estimated 1.85 billion litres of water every day, 10% of national water use.
The toilets, devised by Phoenix Product Development, are currently being trialled by Greenwich Council and utilise an innovative displaced air flushing system which have been shown to require one sixth of the water needed by conventional models.

DEFRA campaign to cut plastic shopping bags kicks off in East of England

Monday, 06 April 2009 23:21 By Chris Innis

DEFRA has launched its campaign to reduce the number of shopping bags in the EAST of England by issuing a report that found shoppers used 13,000 carrier bags in their lifetime. A survey of shoppers found that on average over 160 new carrier bags were used by an individual each and every single year and at least 400 a year were used by each household. That adds up to 470 million bags in Norfolk, Suffolk and Essex and equivalent in weight to 470 double-decker buses, the survey found.

Environment Agency calls time on future water shortages

Wednesday, 01 April 2009 22:57 By www.environment-agency.gov.uk

The Environment Agency has published a report that forecasts severe shortages due to climate change and population growth if businesses and consumers do not reduce their water use.

In the report, "Water Resources Strategy for England and Wales", the Environment Agency sets out measures it believes should be implemented to help protect water resources to 2050 and beyond, including the universal metering of households, a review of the structure of the water industry and actions to reduce water consumption to help lower the country’s carbon emissions.

Laundry fined for exceeding water abstraction limits

Friday, 09 January 2009 15:47 By Mark Williams

A company which owns a long-established laundry in Fakenham was this month ordered to pay more than £20,000 in fines and costs after admitting breaking rules on abstracting water.
Sunlight Services Group runs Fakenham Laundry, which employs about 150 people and cleans work clothes for a range of businesses around Norfolk. King's Lynn magistrates heard that the company has a licence from the Environment Agency to abstract 200,000 cubic metres of water a year from the River Wensum, part of which is a site of special scientific interest (SSSI).

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