Plans for a new incinerator at Edmonton got development consent from the government last week. The current incinerator will reach the end of it's useful life in 2025 and it's replacement is now apparently planned with even more capacity to take waste from other parts of London.
Paying for the capital costs of the new plant will put waste disposal costs in…
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Hackney Energy, first meeting in 2017: Tuesday 28 February, 7.30pm, at The Talbot, Englefield Road.
The sleeping giant that helped launch the Banister House solar farm, awakens!! There's much to discuss:
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Late last year the RSPB published their State of Nature 2016 Report. It shows the UK's performance on biodiversity is abysmal. It shows the Government is simply failing to protect our ecosystems and the species that depend on them. In fact it is doing worse that 188 of the 218 countries…
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The Restart Project report that the average mobile made this year will produce 35 kg of carbon emissions in manufacture, equivalent to 16 weeks of laundry. And with around 1.9 billion mobiles sold a year that's the same as Austria's emissions. They're asking us to make our phones last longer - even just 1/3 long could save the same as Singapore's annual emissions. Demand better design and…
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