There's more to energy saving than switching the shopfloor onto switching off. Annie Gregory finds out how the best are doing it.
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Landfill tax has quintupled to £64 per tonne in just 10 years. Here, WM offers an essential guide to beating the price hikes and boosting your environmental credentials along the way
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Is it possible for sustainability and profitability to march together? Annie Gregory finds out
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Is the eco-favoured plastic returnable crate likely to usurp cardboard transit packaging?
John Dwyer tries to find out
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When the government launched the Carbon Reduction Commitment, it said the scheme would be 'administratively simple'. In reality it appears to be anything but, as Malcolm Wheatley discovers
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Planned obsolescence is so 20th century. For one thing, it’s not eco-friendly. For another, there’s more money in alternative business models. John Dwyer explains
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Britain is on the edge of a new low-carbon industrial revolution that will see the manufacturing sector fight its way back to prosperity, says the government. Rhetoric or reality? Ken Hurst finds out
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Even as prices for scrap collapse, says John Dwyer, the astute manufacturer can use waste management to boost cash flow. After all, one manufacturer’s waste is still another’s raw material
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Sustainable; compliant; and a revenue stream. It seems that business has woken up to the benefits of using waste materials, throughout the manufacturing process and beyond. Chris Rowlands reports
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Good environmental management makes good business sense - and not just in terms of ISO 14001 accreditation or receiving awards. Brian Wall finds out how the right strategies can also reap rewards for the manufacturing process, operation, culture, morale - and, of course, the company waste line
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