One hundred thousand honey bees have been introduced at two Derbyshire quarries and biodiversity in surrounding areas improved, to support the nationwide campaign to grow Britain’s bee population.

Hope Construction Materials, the UK’s leading independent supplier of concrete and cement, has introduced 100,000 bees across its two largest operations – Hope Cement Works, Hope Valley and Dowlow Quarry near Buxton, in Derbyshire.

Publication signals penultimate stage of revision process for world's most widely adopted Environmental Management System Standard.

ISO has officially published the Final Draft International Standard (FDIS) for ISO 14001, signalling the penultimate stage of the revision process for the world’s most widely adopted international Environment Management System (EMS) standard. The final standard (ISO 14001:2015) is currently due for publication in September 2015.

Researchers in Greece are using a Gasmet FTIR multiparameter gas analyzer, deployed in a mobile van (MOBILAB), to undertake exhaust gas analysis for comparison with ambient air quality data. “This enables us to undertake temporal and spatial air quality measurements from within traffic, measuring emissions during different traffic conditions,” says Apostolos Tsakis, from the Aerosol and Particle Technology Laboratory (APTL) of the Centre for Research and Technology-Hellas (CERTH) in Greece. The MOBILAB has been employed in numerous EU funded academic research projects in addition to work sponsored by diesel particulate filter manufacturers.

The Tyre Recovery Association (TRA) is celebrating its tenth anniversary with a Recycling Day, by extending an invitation to the tyre industry, stakeholders and waste industries to participate. The event will be held in partnership with the Retread Manufacturers Association (RMA), and will take place at the Ardencote Manor Hotel, Warwickshire on 19th June 2015.

Tim White, Senior Associate at soil and landscape consultancy Tim O’Hare Associates, was one of two presenters at the April CPD meeting of the South East England Regional Group of the Institute of Chartered Foresters, which took place at the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park.

British Sugar TOPSOIL, the UK’s largest supplier of topsoil to the construction, landscaping and amenity sectors, has been rated ‘Excellent’ or ‘Very Good’ for customer service by 98 per cent of respondents to a recent customer survey. The same percentage was also ‘Very Satisfied’ or ‘Satisfied’ with the company’s general purpose topsoil product, ‘Landscape20’.

The Carbon Savings Alliance (CSA) will be hosting a one-off Technical Workshop on RHI funded heat pump solutions in association with Kensa Heat Pumps and My Green Heating on the 14th May 2015, in Exeter.

Idom Merebrook, one of the UK’s leading environmental consultancies is due to start their second phase of work on The Old Vinyl Factory site, in Hayes, Middlesex. Idom Merebrook has been working on the site since 2012, and both Kent and Derbyshire offices have been involved with The Old Vinyl Factory project, which is the former home of EMI and His Master’s Voice.