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How Food Waste is Degrading the Environment

The Environmental Blog

Did you realize that by throwing food out, you’re also wasting water and causing climate change? billion tonnes of food worth $1 trillion is lost or wasted yearly. According to a World Food Programme (WEP) estimate, about a third of all food produced each year is wasted or lost before it can be eaten. Approximately 1.3

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250 Bishopsgate: Bringing nature into a London building

Business Green

NatWest Group explains how sustainability has been embedded into its flagship building in London. Once inside the modern glass and steel exterior of the NatWest Group's London flagship building, located in 250 Bishopsgate, it reveals itself as a giant greenhouse. This is not the only food grown in the building.

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Save money when you streamline your EV battery dispense system

Charged

While a tangible book may not exist, subject matter experts do. Improve your process and optimize production with industry leading expertise. Automotive manufacturers tend to outsource various products or parts within a vehicle’s assembly, including its electric battery. Can material usage be reduced?

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UK Green Business Awards 2024 Finalists announced

Business Green

The shortlist is announced ahead of the glittering awards ceremony and dinner on the evening of Wednesday 12th June, and finalists can now book their place and join around 600 top green business executives, investors, entrepreneurs, policymakers, campaigners in showcasing the achievements of the fast-expanding sustainable business community.

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What makes Al Gore hopeful: Tech innovation, science-based targets and the racial 'awakening'

GreenBiz

A global coalition fronted by former Vice President Al Gore promises granular insights and data into those sources — down to individual power plants, ships or factories. Where did they originate? How can we be sure? Following is a partial transcript of our conversation, which picks up after Gore’s opening remarks.

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Summit will explore urgent FOG action

Envirotec Magazine

We need to stop seeing FOG as waste and see a resource which can be part of the circular economy, as a biofuel and energy resource. To push that, we must engage across our industry but also more widely. To book your place visit www.swiftcomply.co.uk/fogsummit. The urgency has increased no end,” said Williams. “We

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UK Green Business Awards - Finalists Announced

Business Green

Finalists can now book their place at the UK Green Business Awards through the event website , with an early bird offer in place for bookings completed before 27th March. We look forward to celebrating all of our finalists at the inaugural UK Green Business Awards ceremony in June."