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Join the sustainability journey at emex, ExCeL, London on 19 & 20 November 2025!
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For more than a decade, emex has championed the vision of a sustainable future, with a mission to lead, inform, and support UK industry on its journey toward achieving net zero. The outstanding free-to-attend conference programme is a huge draw with more than 3,500+ visitors expected for 2025 as the show expands to welcome those involved with smart and connected buildings.
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BT and sustainability: We’re working towards becoming a net zero and circular business
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At BT we’re aiming to be net zero in our operations by the end-March 2031 – and for our full value chain by the end-March 2041.
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“From Policy to Practice”: Make Your Impact with the Environmental Industries Association (EIA)
Business Organisation Practice & Training
In an era defined by environmental urgency and innovation, the Environmental Industries Association (EIA) stands as a beacon for professionals and businesses committed to environmental excellence and sustainability. Whether you're a seasoned expert or a growing enterprise, EIA membership offers opportunities to influence policy, and regulations; to collaborate with industry leaders, and drive meaningful change. -
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3M has announced it will exit the manufacturing of widely used 'forever chemicals' Perfluoroalkyl and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) and attempt to discontinue the use of PFAS across its product portfolio by the end of 2025.
If Europe could increase its circularity rate for aggregates from the current 7 per cent to 20 per cent, the raw material material costs could be reduced of up to EUR 6 billion each year by reusing 546 million tonnes of aggregates. This would not only make quality resources last longer, but it would reduce the need to open new quarries and prevent recoverable materials from ending up in landfills.
Tesco is set to make all its tea bags compostable via food caddies by the summer – more than one billion bags a year - ditching the plastic sealant within bags for a plant based alternative.
While steps to manage fishing in Marine Protected Areas are welcome, Greenpeace campaigners say the consultation process, launched today (17 January) is too sluggish and cumbersome to match the urgency of the oceans crisis. The campaign organisation say the government's approach to reef protection doesn't go far enough, as they're not proposing site-wide bans and therefore don't address the damage caused to the whole ecosystem by other forms of industrial fishing.
The number of new homes that could be built on brownfield land has reached record levels, new research by CPRE, the countryside charity, has found. They point out that to help address a growing housing crisis, over 1.2 million homes could be built on 23,000 sites covering more than 27,000 hectares of previously developed land. But just 45% of available housing units have been granted planning permission and 550,000 homes with planning permission are still awaiting development.
Offshore renewable energy company Ørsted has teamed up with Yorkshire coast based marine farmers SeaGrown to explore the potential of using seaweed farms to boost ocean biodiversity. The new partnership aims to develop biodiversity monitoring and measurement guidelines for offshore seaweed farms.
A "kickstart" is required from government to encourage faster electric van adoption by businesses, says the Association of Fleet Professionals. Paul Hollick, chair at the industry body, said that its members were reporting a range of issues with the introduction of electric vans and some form of financial incentive was needed that would help to overcome these objections, playing a similar role to the boost provided by low benefit-in-kind taxation for electric cars.
Glass Futures, a not-for-profit research technology organisation, has published its report for the Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) which answers some of the fundamental questions surrounding low carbon fuels within the UK glass industry, with learnings applicable to the global industry.
A Northern English biodiversity tech start-up company, AgriSound, has won European funding for a research and development project set to change the pollination of commercial crops to harness the power of mason bees, claiming they will exist sustainably in the wider ecosystem.
Million pound digital technology, which captures 1,000 data points every 10 seconds, is giving Tata Steel technicians an uninterrupted 3D view of the material being laid into the top of its two Port Talbot blast furnaces saving costs, energy and CO2.
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