Environment legal services news
Practice group: Environment legal services
05-02-10
Battery disposal legislation now in force
Retailers which sell batteries are now required to offer customers the chance to recycle old battery cases under EU legislation. The law...
29-12-09
Waste battery legislation to come into force
New laws are soon to come into force to encourage the proper disposal and recycling of industrial and automotive batteries. The Department...
13-10-09
Environment secretary proposes no waste nation
The UK must strive to become a no waste nation, Environment Secretary Hilary Benn has stressed. Speaking to a summit of waste industry and...
28-09-09
Legal 500 demonstrates strong support from clients
The excellence and professionalism of the team at B P Collins has been underlined with the publication of the latest Legal 500...
31-07-09
New standard for waste resource management
The British Standards Institution (BSI) and Constructing Excellence in Wales (CEW) have unveiled a new publicly-available specification for...
29-07-09
Waste export warning following Wiltshire raids
The Environment Agency has made three arrests in connection with the alleged export of waste to Brazil, as part of the Environment Agency's...
08-06-09
UK 'among the worst' for recycling WEEE
A study undertaken in the UK, France, Germany and Spain by computer supplier Dell, has found that the UK is still behind other western...
24-02-09
Retailers 'should be held accountable for excessive packaging'
Calls are being made by the Local Government Association (LGA) for retailers to foot the bill for creating unnecessary packaging which then...
12-02-09
New environment legislation 'will make polluter pay'
The Environmental Liability Directive comes into force in England on 1 March 2009, when the Environmental Damage (Prevention and...
23-12-08
Renewable energy needed 'to comply with Climate Change Act'
Renewable energy sources need to be exploited in order to help the country meet its carbon emission targets, one pressure group...
12-12-08
Renewable energy 'the key to meeting Climate Change targets'
The Committee on Climate Change was right to put an emphasis on wind as a renewable form of energy, one expert claims.
According to...
11-12-08
Climate Change Bill 'may not impact property developers'
The Climate Change Bill will have a "negligible impact" on property developers, one expert claims.According to Selwyn Lim, director of...
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