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WITH over a third of consumer’s admitting that recycling confuses them in general, Veolia is calling the industry to action. New research conducted by YouGov found that only 8% of Brits strongly believe that recycling labelling on products is clear and that only 12% of them trust this recycling labelling on products. Public confusion and distrust of recycling labelling leads to...

GOVERNMENT is investing in renewable energy innovation to bring the cost of technologies down. This includes around £177 million in investments from the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS), Innovate UK, and the Research Councils. As part of this commitment, within the BEIS Energy Innovation Programme, BEIS expects to invest around £15 million in the renewables innovation theme. The UK is working with other...

WASTE products from farms could be used to produce a high-energy, low-cost and environmentally-friendly feed for livestock. Scientists from the Institute of Biological, Environmental and Rural Sciences at Aberystwyth University are working with colleagues from University College Cork in Ireland to investigate how slurry and wastewater from the dairy industry could be put to better use. In a £1.375m project funded...

WORK has commenced on a new £8 million pound walking and cycling scheme in Glasgow. The ambitious initiative will be made up of strategic protected cycle routes through Charing Cross and along Garscube Road, Woodlands Road, and St George's Road. It is considered to be the missing piece of the jigsaw which will connect to the improvements on Sauchiehall Street, the...

FUNDING of more than £770,000 has been awarded to the Mull and Iona Community Trust to build family homes for social rent in Ulva Ferry on the Island of Mull. The money comes from the Scottish Government’s Rural and Islands Housing Fund, part of a £30 million investment to increase the supply of affordable housing in rural and island areas. This...

EUROPEAN Commission presented a proposal to enshrine in legislation the EU's political commitment to be climate neutral by 2050. The European Climate Law sets the 2050 target and the direction of travel for all EU policy, and gives predictability for public authorities, businesses and citizens. President Ursula von der Leyen commented on the proposal: “We are acting to make the EU...

Over £150 million paid out to customers under Countryside Stewardship and Environmental Stewardship and almost 99% of Basic Payments Scheme payments have been delivered. The Rural Payments Agency has now paid almost 99% of eligible farmers under the Basic Payment Scheme. The latest figures from the Rural Payments Agency show that Basic Payments Scheme payments worth £1.76 billion were made to...

BLUE tits and great tits can learn to avoid foods that taste disgusting and are potentially toxic by watching videos of each other eating, a new study has found. Seeing the ‘disgust response’ in others helps the birds to recognise distasteful prey by their conspicuous markings without having to taste them, and this can potentially increase both the birds’ and...

OWNERS of Amazon Alexa and Google Play devices can now get the answers to over 50 commonly-asked questions about electric vehicles, thanks to the new Electric Vehicles Voice App. In partnership with media agency Wavemaker, the Go Ultra Low campaign has launched an app to answer some of the most commonly asked questions to help people to buy the right...

A 'REVOLUTIONARY' trial to use household batteries to help support the electricity grid in London is being rolled out further to help deal with peaks in winter demand and reduce carbon emissions in the capital. An initial trial by UK Power Networks paid 45 households to store energy in batteries in their homes, which the network operator drew on in...