Green Business Network
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Release date: 17/04/2008
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Release date: 04/12/2007
EcoTrash is a newly formed project, where people with disabilities collect cans and foil for recycling from organisations in Bedfordshire and Luton.
Release date: 03/12/2007
With almost 75,000 tonnes of waste vegetable oil being transformed into biodiesel each year, a Quality Protocol consultation launched by the Environment Agency and WRAP (Waste & Resources Action Programme) aims to cut regulatory red-tape so that waste vegetable oil from places such as chip shops can be processed and used in engines more easily.
Release date: 03/12/2007
Hain Celestial Group was recently announced the winner of the Recycling Performance of the Year Award at the Chartered Institution of Wastes Management (CIWM) Awards for Environmental Excellence. The award is designed to recognise excellent performance in recycling across all industries, which can be demonstrated in a number of ways, such as recycling of a new material, finding a market for a waste material, or improving the sustainability of the product or process.
Release date: 03/12/2007
Congratulations go to long-standing GBN members and waste contractors Firbank Chiltern who have recently achieved registration to ISO 14001 – the internationally recognised environmental management systems standard.
Release date: 03/12/2007
The Environment Agency has announced new guidance for the timber industry, which effectively removes existing controls on the recovery of virgin timber.
Release date: 03/12/2007
When surveyed, 85% of UK construction businesses did not think that they undertook activities that could cause harm to the environment. However, when prompted with a list of activities that are potentially harmful to the environment, 39% stated they undertook at least one of them. The most common were producing or importing packaging (41%) and storing waste (33%).
Release date: 03/12/2007
Bedford based SDC Construction scooped the award for Most Tonnes Exchanged 2007 at the first Eastex Annual Conference, which took place in October. Eastex is the unique free materials exchange scheme for the East of England, which aims to reduce the amount of business waste sent to landfill by allowing the waste materials of one business to be exchanged and reused by another business.
Release date: 03/12/2007
A website dealing with issues relating to sustainable purchasing is to go live in December. The site is the initiative of Matthew Roper of Green Buying Ltd, who delivered the GBN seminar on greening the supply chain in November.
Release date: 03/12/2007
Terrapin’s impressive environmental record has won the offsite construction company a Business Excellence Award from the Milton Keynes and North Bucks Chamber of Commerce. The Environment Award recognises achievements in recycling, waste reduction and green initiatives.
Release date: 03/12/2007
GBN member The Ethical Food Company is supporting local charity Willen Hospice by offering special “Willen” Christmas hampers.
Release date: 03/12/2007
Bedford based buy-local.net is now offering consumers and businesses an alternative to the major supermarket chains, together with the chance to have locally or ethically produced groceries delivered to their doorsteps, and is tempting customers with a free bottle of locally produced wine with every order.
Release date: 03/12/2007
If you work in the construction industry in England, it is likely that you will need to produce a site waste management plan (SWMP) by April 2008.
Release date: 10/09/2007
Recognising that smaller businesses don’t always have the space to store the quantities of recycled materials necessary for collection by waste contractors or recycling schemes, Milton Keynes Council has agreed that they can now deliver this to its Materials Recycling Facility (MRF) in Wolverton.
Release date: 10/09/2007
Kempston based Interfoam paid tribute to help from GBN at a ceremony to celebrate the company achieving registration to the internationally recognised environmental management standard ISO 14001.
Release date: 10/09/2007
Preliminary results from the second year of GBN’s Resource Efficiency programme, which helps businesses to save money by eliminating waste and reducing gas, water and electricity use, are once again exceptional. Businesses in Bedfordshire and Milton Keynes have made savings of more than £200,000, with more than £300,000 savings predicted for next year.
Release date: 16/05/2007
GBN has just had two separate sets of funding confirmed that will enable it to work with businesses in Bedfordshire and Milton Keynes to improve environmental performance whilst saving money.
Release date: 24/01/2007
Under the EEDA and ESF funded BETI+ project, we are now able to offer a limited number of free places on the CIWM Waste Awareness Certificate course.
Release date: 07/11/2006
GBN and Bedfordia Bio Energy shared top honours at the Bedfordshire and Luton Business Excellence Awards 2006, as they were named joint winners of the Environmental Business Award.
Release date: 06/11/2006
Thanks to financial backing from the East of England Development Agency (EEDA) and the European Social Fund (ESF) GBN is now able to offer Bedfordshire businesses the chance to take advantage of a fully subsidised extensive business environmental training and on-site support initiative worth more than £4,500.
Release date: 12/09/2006
GBN is delighted to announce that Claire Atkins has been appointed executive officer.
Release date: 05/09/2006
Eleven companies spanning Bedfordshire, Luton and Milton Keynes have made savings totalling £465,776 by participating in the Green Business Network’s (GBN) Resource Efficiency Action Programme (REAP).This is almost double the Network’s original declared target of £250,000.
Release date: 05/09/2006
The Carbon Trust is to run two free half-day sessions on 24 October 2006 at Bedford. These will offer practical advice on how your organisation can become more energy efficient and reduce carbon emissions.
Release date: 14/06/2006
Members of the local Green Business Network (GBN) have been pledging to reduce their environmental impacts following the UK initiative led by the Environment Agency call for them to "Promise the Earth for World Environment Day". The Day, officially held on 5 June, has come and gone, but its legacies will last for years to come.
Release date: 21/05/2006
GBN has now received full accreditation from the Chartered Institution of Wastes Management to run its Waste Management Foundation Level Courses. Whilst these will predominantly be run to support companies taking part in the Resource Efficiency Action Programme (REAP), GBN is now able to offer them to businesses in general.