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Waste

LRQA Business Assurance ISO 14001 Podcast - ALcontrol Case Study

– 15th Sep 2009 by Alex Briggs

ALcontrol is one of Europe’s leading environmental and food testing organisations. David Doherty, ALcontrol’s Health & Safety and Environmental Manager talked to us about their ISO 14001 Environmental Management Systems implementation and certification. Listen in as David talks about tangible benefits, internal and external, financial and non-financial, short and long-term, that ALcontrol’s LRQA certified ISO 14001 EMS has delivered.

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Chocolatiers to address Supply Chain in battle to reduce waste

– 20th Apr 2009 by Alex Briggs

Chocolatiers are set to look beyond the Easter period in their efforts to meet the demands of their stakeholders to reduce waste.
In devising new industry measures for retail chains and manufacturers, Waste Resources Action Programme (WRAP), a UK government backed programme, says it has begun to look at wider issues of food and material waste across the supply chain.

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Waste Reduction through Innovation

– 11th Jul 2008 by Alex Briggs

UK’s Waste and Resources Action Programme (WRAP) have invited food manufacturers to take part in a project aimed at waste reduction through innovation in food packaging technology.

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WRAP Food Waste Report

– 8th Jul 2008 by Alex Briggs

In the UK we throw away 6.7 million tonnes of food every year, roughly a third of everything we buy.
This ground-breaking report was launched on 8 May 2008.
It provides, for the first time, an objective assessment of the amounts and types of food we buy but don’t eat.
It is a call to action for government, retailers, food manufacturers, NGOs and all of us, in our role as consumers, to reduce the food we waste.

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WRAP study on environmental recycling

– 8th Jul 2008 by Alex Briggs

The most comprehensive assessment ever undertaken, this study, comissioned by WRAP, reviewed and analysed the best Life Cycle Analysis studies from all around the world evaluating the environmental impacts of recycling compared to incineration or landfilling for seven of the most commonly recycled materials.

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Retail Supply Chain Market Report

– 8th Jul 2008 by Alex Briggs

This report, commissioned by Unipart Logistics, aims to deepen the understanding of consumer supply chain drivers, logistics models and improvement initiatives.

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Duke Energy CEO to open Sustainable Manufacturing Summit

– 27th Feb 2008

Rogers is opening the two-day summit which focuses on how manufacturers can reduce their climate impact at every stage of the production process – from product design through to waste.

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Pay attention to your ‘Waste Chain’ and create a sustainable supply chain

– 21st Jan 2008

Download the white paper, ‘Waste Not, Want Not: How Paying Attention to Your “Waste Chain” Can Create a Sustainable Supply Chain

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EU Twinning Agreement for waste management

– 21st Jan 2008

The technical and legal knowledge of how Malta manages some of its waste streams has been revolutionised thanks to a twinning project with Austria which ran for 21 months. The EU-funded twinning project, which was part of the 2005 National Transition Facility Programme for Malta, came to an end today following a closing workshop presenting the results.

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Only Science can save us!

– 21st Jan 2008 by Alex Briggs

An article in The Observer brings home the harsh realities that consumers, business and government have to face in dealing with climate change.

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