Advice on collection schemes, food waste recycling and public consultations are just some of the many issues to be tackled in the free seminars at this year’s Recycling and Waste Management Exhibition (RWM 10) which returns to the NEC, Birmingham from 14 to 16 September 2010.
The Department for Education’s (DfE) withdrawal of funding for the majority of Building Schools for the Future projects may not at this time be front page news, but the headache for local authorities remains as troublesome as ever.
A report by the New Local Government Network (NLGN) has warned that local authorities could lose over a third of central government funding over the life of the current parliament. Chris Newbould looks at the implications for the oft-overlooked highway maintenance sector.
Despite the current uncertainty around the future funding of BSF in many quarters, it seems certain that technology will play a leading role in the future development of the UK’s schools. LGE hears from Simon Nakra, of education technology provider, DRS Data Services Limited.
The Futuresource 2010 conference and exhibition gave the waste and resource management sector unique access to key ministers last week, with the new secretary of state for the environment Caroline Spelman choosing the event to give her first keynote address to the industry.
Waste & Resources Action Programme (WRAP) chairman, Peter Stone, claims hard-pressed local authorities could save millions through more partnership working in delivering waste services.
The change of government has, unsurprisingly, brought a new figurehead to CLG. With exact details still filtering through, and the emergency budget due as we go to press, it’s hard to be too precise on what this could mean, but LGE takes a look at what Eric Pickles may mean for the sector.
There was a time not so many years ago when, like many of its peers, Manchester was a major stock-owning council, but a series of stock transfers, two PFIs and the creation of the ALMO Northwards Housing transformed the social housing landscape in the city.
The much anticipated emergency budget is here, and Chancellor Osborne has finally had his moment with the famous red box. But did he come across, like his infamous Brummie namesake, as the Prince of Darkness that so many critics had predicted, or was this a sensible budget to reflect the altered economic conditions in post-recession Britain?
Severn Trent Laboratories have set out to offer the most comprehensive environmental testing service in the UK. With a raft of new water quality regulation this year, we look at what that means for the company and their customers.
Just a generation ago the Stour was in a sad state. Heavy pollution had taken its toll and turned it into a virtually lifeless river. Yet partnership working and a multimillion pound investment programme, has transformed the fate of this West Midlands river. Today it is at the heart of a revitalised town centre in Kidderminster and, against all odds, wildlife is beginning to thrive again.
The final proposals for the Feed-in Tariffs for Renewable Electricity were launched on 1st February 2010. The Feed-in Tariffs (Specified Maximum Capacity and Functions) Order 2010 was laid before Parliament on the 10th March with a scheduled start of 1st April 2010.
It is universally accepted that local authorities will have a key role to play in efforts to tackle climate change. More than 90 per cent of councils have already adopted targets to reduce emissions in their own operation or across their local area, or targets to adapt to the effects of climate change.
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