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