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LGA call for supermarkets to reveal how much packaging they produce
The Local Government Association has written to Environment Secretary Hilary Benn to call on the Government to force supermarkets to reveal how much packaging they produce much to the disappointment of a packaging industry trade body.
In a letter to Benn, the LGA calls for the information to be published so that shoppers can “see hard evidence to back up supermarkets’ claims that they are taking the problem of packaging seriously”.
The Industry Council for Packaging & the Environment director Jane Bickerstaffe told MRW: “We are disappointed with this news and this is just diverting attention ... |
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Orange launches waste saving Mini SIM
Orange has announced that it has become the first European mobile operator to introduce mini SIM cards, an introduction aimed at reducing the amount of waste produced when customers receive new SIMs for an upgrade or new contract.
Customers receive new SIMs embedded in a credit card-sized piece of plastic. Just ten percent of the material is used for the plug-in SIM with the remaining 90% of the card’s plastic unused. The mini SIM cards will halve the amount of waste generated in providing customers with new SIMs by embedding two SIMs in each credit-card sized item during manufacturing.
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In 1975, the family enterprise K. + U. Hofstetter AG founded Hofstetter Umwelttechnik AG. The company operated cement and gravel works and worked at this time with partners, including landfill site operators, to develop degassing systems to overcome the problem of bad smells. Thanks to the company’s gifted engineers, there followed a new generation of modern degassing plants for landfill sites, with the focus on combustion technology. Soon Hofstetter became the first port of call for customers seeking solutions for extracting and disposing of gases from landfill sites. With visionary farsightedness, creative inventiveness and enormous energy, Hofstetter Umwelttechnik AG has developed to become today one of the world’s leading providers of combustion systems for LCV (low calorific value) gas.
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