joomla templates

Environment UK

Online Magazine and Directory

Wed01212026

Last update10:44:54 AM GMT

Back Environment The News

Environment News

UK Timber Industry to Meet Government’s Independent Panel on Forestry

  • PDF

Some of the biggest names in the UK timber industry are to meet with the Government’s Independent Panel on Forestry in a bid to ensure commercial interests are recognised as part of future policy for forestry and woodland management. 

 A team made up of EGGER (UK) Ltd, James Jones & Sons, BSW Timber and Iggesund Paper Board is to meet with Panel members during their visit to the Kielder Forest in Northumberland on Tuesday (26 July 2011).

 Chaired by the Right Reverend James Jones, Bishop of Liverpool, the Panel was established in March 2011 to advise Government on the future direction of forestry and woodland policy in England – and the role of the Forestry Commission in implementing that policy.

Last Updated on Monday, 01 August 2011 15:14

Read more...

FIND Maps Releases Environmental Data Viewing Subscription Service ‘EnviroFIND’

  • PDF

 EnviroFINDscreenshotCloseup_
 FIND Maps (www.findmaps.co.uk), the UK's most advanced online mapping website for professionals, has announced the launch of ‘EnviroFIND’ – an online commercial environmental data viewing subscription service.

Read more...

Remarkable

  • PDF

 

The_Rheged_Centre_pic
Innovative eco-friendly Inventor wins major retail contract with award winning visitor attraction.
Pioneering Worcester based eco-manufacturing company, Remarkable, has won a major retail contract with award winning Lake District visitor attraction, The Rheged Centre.

Last Updated on Tuesday, 26 July 2011 13:23

Read more...

Hanson Formpave goes green with Ecogranite at Suscon

  • PDF

Hanson_Formpave_SusCon_Academy2Helping Achieve Highest Ever BREEAM ‘Outstanding’ Rating For An Educational Building

Hanson Formpave, a leading UK manufacturer of specialist concrete paving products, has supplied nearly 2,000m2 of its EcoGranite paving for the construction of pedestrianised zones at SusCon in Dartford.  EcoGranite is the company’s environmentally aware alternative to natural granite, with up to 77% recycled content.

Last Updated on Wednesday, 20 July 2011 13:06

Read more...

Environmental Industry welcomes representation on Defras red tape challenge sounding board

  • PDF

 – But warns of Environmental Protection

 The Environmental Industries Commission’s (1) Executive Chair, Adrian Wilkes, welcomes the formation of, and his appointment to, the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affair’s "Red Tape Challenge Sounding Board" (2).

 As part of the Government’s Red Tape Challenge to ease the burden placed on business, 278 environmental regulations have up for up for review. This review begins on 1st September 2011, and Defra have formed a ‘Sounding Board’ of key industry figures in the run-up to its launch. Other Members include the CBI, NFU and various NGOs.

Last Updated on Wednesday, 20 July 2011 12:59

Read more...