Manchester Friends of the Earth | Archive of website content

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Our website contains a variety of items dating back to 2001. You can use this archive to explore by year, campaign theme, specific campaign, and category. See also our new releases, our media appearances and our newsletters.

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Don’t scrap EU action plan on resource-use, say manufacturers and retailers

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news release

16th Dec 2014

Some of the UK’s biggest businesses and trade groups – including Unilever, IKEA, Kingfisher, M&S and EEF, the Manufacturers’ Organisation – have put intense pressure on the European Commission [EC] not to scrap crucial plans to use natural resources much …

EU action on air pollution and waste under threat

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news release

11th Dec 2014

Fears are growing that the EU may be on the verge of scrapping crucial plans to clean up our polluted air and cut waste.

UK needs more affordable homes – but they must be green

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news release

15th Oct 2014

The supply of affordable homes must be increased to help tackle the housing crisis, but they must be built to high environmental standards and situated in the ‘right place’, Friends of the Earth said today, ahead of publication of a …

MPs’ call to end throwaway society welcomed

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news release

24th Jul 2014

Responding to the Environmental Audit Committee’s Circular Economy report published today (Thursday 24 July 2014), Friends of the Earth Resource Use Campaigner Julian Kirby said: “Thanks to greedy companies and short-sighted 1970’s economists we live in a throwaway society we …

EU resource-use plan must be strengthened

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news release

2nd Jul 2014

A raft of measures announced in Brussels today [Wednesday 2 July], aimed at getting Europe to use its resources more wisely, is weak and insufficient, says Friends of the Earth.

UK should be ashamed for blocking EU corporate transparency reform

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news release

26th Feb 2014

The UK has today succeeded in watering down new European rules designed to boost corporate transparency, by blocking plans that would have required large private companies to report on their environmental and social impacts, alongside firms listed on stock exchanges.

Apple comes clean on use of illegal Bangka tin following Make It Better campaign

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news release

14th Feb 2014

Apple’s supplier responsibility report published earlier this week reveals for the first time that it sources tin from almost every smelter in the Indonesian province associated with dangerous illegal mining and environmental destruction.

Plastic bag levy is a step in the right direction

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news release

6th Feb 2014

Commenting on a new report by the Environmental Audit Committee published today (Thursday 6 February 2014) warning the Government to keep its proposed carrier bags levy simple, Friends of the Earth Resource Campaigner Michael Warhurst said: “It’s crucial that the …

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