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'Treading water' on raw sewage in rivers as last year's overflow stats revealed
Pollution
Latest sewage statistics show water companies in England and Wales are treading water on sewage pollution and the Government's Defra's plan just threatens more stagnation, state The Rivers Trust as they update their popular online maps to display how Combined Sewage Overflows (CSOs) are performing with raw sewage releases into your local waterways.
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Banks have blind spot about value of biodiversity coalition of economists and ecologists reveal
Business
Central banks have a blind spot about biodiversity. This means the millions being spent on preventing climate change may actually be damaging the environment, jeopardising global financial stability and endangering life on earth. This is one of the conclusions of the biggest study of its kind, led by an unusual partnership of economists and ecologists from 28 organisations belonging to the International Network for Sustainable Financial Policy Insights, Research and Exchange (INSPIRE), and including representatives from 25 central banks and supervisors affiliated to the Network for Greening the Financial System (NGFS).
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Amazon buys fully-electric 37-tonne lorries to join its 1,000 electric van fleet
Transport
Amazon has invested in five new electric HGVs for the first time in the UK and Europe, replacing diesel HGVS for transporting customer packages from Amazon's fulfilment centres in Tilbury and Milton Keynes, and they'll soon be using faster 360kW charging points at the two sites.
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Sewage bugs convert Tata Steel's Port Talbot gas emissions into industry raw materials
Resource & 'Waste'
Super bugs in sewage are helping to convert steelmaking emissions into sustainable raw materials for other industries, a new project led by the University of South Wales has discovered.
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