Marketplace
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Domino Publishes Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Report
Corporate Reports
Domino Printing Sciences (Domino) has published its CSR Report 2025, providing customers with a clearer understanding of the company’s approach to sustainability and the progress it has made in key areas related to the environment, people, and society.
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SCOPE from Ovarro supports Welsh Water response to severe storm
Water
Upgraded telemetry technology helped Dŵr Cymru Welsh Water manage an unprecedented volume of alarms during a major weather event, writes Julian Booth, SCADA service delivery manager, Ovarro.
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First location in Nottinghamshire to install solar & wind powered defibrillator
Health & safety
Another rural Parish Council – East Markham – has taken the valiant step of ensuring residents in all parts of the village are safeguarded against sudden cardiac arrest. East Markham is the first location in Nottinghamshire to install a solar and wind powered defibrillator cabinet.
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The Fentex Trapper Range
Spill Control & Clean Up
British-Made Innovation Powered by Recycled Materials
As sustainability becomes a defining priority for British industry, choosing products that are both high performing and responsibly made has never mattered more. At Fentex, environmental responsibility and British manufacturing go hand in hand. As the largest Spill Control manufacturer in Britain, Fentex delivers an unrivalled product range that is manufactured and packaged in the UK, supporting local industry while reducing environmental impact.
Resource & 'Waste'
Doorstep donations to Clothes Aid have reached the £1m fundraising milestone for Macmillan Cancer Support, and also equate to 4 million garments being spared from landfill.
A patented technique of making construction aggregates from the residues of energy from waste has been given a boost as construction begins on an Avonmouth plant.
A Yorkshire chemical manufacturer has gone a shade greener after its freshly appointed Health and Safety Manager, Karen Waddington, is steering it on course to achieve zero landfill status.
At this freezing time of year, the Highways Agency again focuses its attention on keeping roads clear and ensuring sufficient supplies of road grit are available for spreading on the UK's carriageways. With over two million tonnes of rock salt and grit spread onto the road networks at a cost of over £150 million each year, it is with regret that in the last 12 months over one million tonnes of road sweepings and gully waste will have gone to landfill at a cost of £80 per tonne in landfill tax alone.
Aqua Enviro has won a prestigious WRAP and Zero Waste Scotland contract to identify ways to increase the value of digestate.
Aqua Enviro, a specialist environmental consultancy based in Wakefield in northern England, is undertaking research, supported by Eunomia, to discover new technologies which add value to bio-waste and digestate, ultimately helping to reduce the worldwide reliance on fossil fuels.
The British Retail Consortium is pointing out that contrary to popular belief, recent figures show that very little food waste comes from supermarkets and their depots, but over half comes from households.
A partnership in Kent between a young male offenders prison, a waste management company, and a social enterprise shop is celebrating the success of its "Re-love a bike" scheme which has seen more than 500 old bikes salvaged since June of last year and restored by prisoners for resale. The partners involved are FCC Environment, HMP Rochester (formerly known as Borstal Prison) and the Abacus Furniture Project.
Children are trying to find solutions to reduce marine litter, particularly plastics, and are educating their 'throwaway generation' parents abouth the issue following an event at the Plymouth waterfront, researchers from the city's university have found.
Three million tonnes of Christmas related rubbish in Britain is likely to be produced this year – enough to cover an area twice the size of London, including 4,500 tonnes of tin foil, 12,000 tonnes of dead Christmas trees and 9,300 tonnes of sprouts.
A £12.5 million Plastics Recycling Facility has opened in Rochester, Kent. It will enable local councils and businesses to recycle more of their plastic 'waste' into quality raw materials for industry.
