Environment Minister, John Griffiths was in Newport  to launch Tidy Wales Week and kick off Newport’s Chewing Gum Action Group campaign.

The Minister took part in a litter pick to highlight the importance of keeping Welsh towns and the Welsh countryside tidy and also spoke about the negative contribution that carrier bags make to litter right across Wales.

Camfil Farr is a global manufacturer of air filtration equipment and associated services and the world leader in the production and development of air filters.  They recently became the first manufacturing company in the UK to be awarded Energy Management Standard BS EN 16001 and the Energy Reduction Verification (ERV) Kitemark.

 Environment Minister, John Griffiths has today announced an extra £1million to help create new habitats and stronger ecosystems for Wales.

 The money will be used to enhance Wales’ precious natural environment and in doing so will benefit its wider economy. 

 It will also be used to develop new pilot projects that support the Welsh Government’s plans for managing the natural environment as set out in its natural environment consultation,   ‘A Living Wales’. The consultation set out an ecosystems approach aimed at ensuring that Wales has increasingly resilient and diverse environment, managed to deliver economic, social and environmental benefits for Wales.

 Marley Eternit’s fibre cement profile sheeting has been specified on the Woodland Trust’s new headquarters in Grantham, Lincolnshire.

 
The rapidly growing trend of recovering energy from construction waste is set to be the focus of its very own area and seminar theatre for the first time at this year’s RWM in partnership with CIWM.

Producing energy from waste in a variety of ways has become increasingly popular in recent years as the construction sector looks to cut its energy costs while also minimising its waste and carbon emissions as part of a public and private sector drive to achieve a ‘zero waste’ economy.

 Accsys Technologies are pleased to announce an agreement to supply proprietary acetylated material to Medite Europe Ltd for the production of Medite Tricoya®, the world’s first ultra high performance medium density fibreboard (“MDF”)

 Following the signing of a joint development agreement in June 2009, the ground breaking panel Medite Tricoya® was created and is expected to be entering the market in the coming months.

By Vicky Kenrick, Specialist at Allen & York

“Sustainable practices are the future of the UK economy” Lord Digby Jones

Leaders in international sustainability recruitment, Allen & York play a significant role in this global sustainable development and are witnessing a major increase in roles within the sustainability industry. In addition to working with corporations to fulfil their corporate sustainability recruitment requirements, Allen & York are pleased to be at the forefront of growing career trends within technical disciplines, including CSR & Sustainability, Renewable Energy, Health & Safety, Waste & Water Management and Planning and the Built Environment.

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Kick-off for the prototype – Cree GmbH builds first LifeCycle Tower

 In September 2011, construction on LCT ONE, the first unencapsulated eight-storey timber hybrid building, will start in Dornbirn, Austria. What started in 2009 with a research project is now becoming reality: Cree GmbH's LifeCycle Tower (LCT) – the innovative concept for high-rise timber hybrid buildings – enters the construction phase.