One of Birmingham’s greenest venues is celebrating today after maintaining a British Standard accolade for their environmental credentials.

Conference Aston, Birmingham city centre’s premier conference, hotel and event venue, has had its ISO14001 accreditation reaffirmed following the refurbishment of 53 bedrooms as part of a £5.4m redevelopment of the Aston University site.

A local government waste partnership has scooped a top accolade at a national awards ceremony for helping to cut household waste levels on Merseyside and Halton.

The Merseyside and Halton Waste Partnership, which consists of Merseyside Recycling and Waste Authority and Halton, Knowsley, Liverpool, Sefton, St Helens and Wirral councils, picked up the prize at the LARAC* Celebration Awards 2013.

BIU Group (BIU), one of the UK’s leading textile recycling companies, is pleased to announce it has raised 2 million pounds for the Hampshire & Isle of Wight Air Ambulance (HIOWAA).

HIOWAA and BIU have been working together since 2006. There are currently over 300 BIU clothing banks that have been placed in the area, where the people of Hampshire can recycle their unwanted clothing, shoes and textiles, generating vital funds for the life-saving charity.

SolarTech Ltd is one of the first renewable energy specialists to achieve ‘Green Deal Installer' status across a wide range of measures under the under the Government backed Green Deal scheme.

The company meets the new PAS 2030 standard to install Condensing Gas Fired Boilers, Under-floor Heating and Heating Controls plus a number of renewable energy solutions, including Solar PV, Solar Thermal, Ground and Air Source Heat Pumps.

UK Power Networks has recently completed the installation of 60 Electric Vehicle (EV) charge posts at 12 London Underground (LU) car parks across the capital.

The charge posts have the capacity to charge two vehicles simultaneously, can provide charging at either fast (7kw) or rapid (22kw) rates, and are accessible through the Source London charging network.

It has come to the notice of Two Sides that the EEPN, European Environmental Paper Network, who claim to be ‘a network of non-profit organizations working together to accelerate social and environmental transformation in the paper industry’, is making claims about the sustainability of the paper and associated industries which either require substantiation or retraction. ‘EEPN Paper Facts’.

Thousands of homes will receive electricity powered by renewable energy thanks to the use of Timbermat Ltd’s temporary roadways during the construction of a wind farm at Orchard End, near Preston, Lancashire.

Ground protection solution providers, Timbermat Ltd, supplied special load calculating Emtek mats during the erection of two giant wind turbines.

Fluoride plays an important role in dental health, with its presence in small quantities promoting the re-mineralization and strengthening of tooth enamel [1]. This occurs when hydroxyl ligands in the hydroxyapatite rod structure of the enamel are replaced by Fluoride. As a result of this and the deposition of calcium Fluoride on the enamel surface, the tooth surface can become stronger and more resistant to the destructive effects of plaque acid.

As a result of studies showing these beneficial effects of Fluoride, many countries have added Fluoride – in the form of hexafluosilicic acid (H2SiF6) - to their drinking water supplies. Fluoride is also present in many of the commercially available toothpastes, tooth-gel and mouth-wash products that are used around the world, as well as certain food-stuffs (tea for example).