New guidance that will help Welsh businesses to manage their waste as cost effectively and sustainably as possible has been published by the Welsh Government.

The guidance applies to all businesses and organisations that manage waste in Wales, and provides advice on processing unwanted materials in line with what is best for the environment.

Funding for projects at 27 universities under HEFCE’s Revolving Green Fund (RGF) was announced today.
The awards have been made to four major projects and 24 smaller-scale programmes at higher education institutions, and collectively they will receive nearly £11 million.1 All are designed to reduce harmful carbon emissions. In this, the second round of the RGF, the four major projects enable existing buildings on a campus to be retrofitted to reduce energy consumption. This work is collectively predicted to reduce CO2 emissions by around 229,000 tonnes per year.

The Institute for Sustainability, an independent charity, today called on built environment businesses to take advantage of the £500 billion that is predicted to be spent on retrofitting UK’s domestic buildings over the next 40 years.

Building the future: Scotframe takes construction towards a zero-carbon world Scotframe, the UK’s leading full kit manufacturer and supplier, has introduced a new generation of building products which takes thinking about construction into the 21st century – the Green Century.