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


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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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