The Health Protection Agency (HPA) has published advice on the impact on health of emissions from landfill sites. The advice is in the form of a review that encompasses the results of a number of epidemiological studies, detailed monitoring results from a major project funded by the Environment Agency.
Kidderminster Property Investments Limited on 19 July 2011 pleaded guilty to an offence of knowingly permitting illegal waste operations to take place on land that they owned at Churchfields Business Park, Kidderminster in March 2009.
Today (Monday 18 July 2011) at Walsall Magistrates’ Court, Greenstar Environmental Limited pleaded guilty to a charge under the Producer Responsibility Obligations (Waste Packaging) Regulations.
The amount of waste from Scottish homes and businesses being landfilled has dropped by almost 36% in the past five years, with the amount of waste generated falling and waste recycling increasing.
The UK Government has been ‘third time lucky’ with the European Commission (EC) in terms of EU legal limits on dangerous airborne particles (PM10) in London, avoiding legal action for breaches of the pollutant from 2005-2011, a Freedom of Information request revealed.
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