Monthly Archives: January 2017
A Green Brexit
Environment2017 will see a more active phase of Brexit with Article 50 expected to be triggered in March of this year. Theresa May has remained largely silent on environmental matters since the referendum, and therefore there is some uncertainty as to what will happen to the UK’s application of EU…
Read MoreDoing Good is Good for Business
Corporate Social ResponsibilityIn the past companies may have sponsored an employee raising funds for a local good cause or encouraged staff to participate in the annual float race down the river to raise funds for the local hospital, however many companies are starting to recognise that increased involvement in their local community…
Read MoreImportance of RoHS Directive Highlighted by £33m Product Withdrawals
Occupational Health & SafetyFigures released by the National Measurement and Regulation Office (NMRO) show that in 2015/2016 up to £33m worth of products were removed from the UK market. In all, 146,182 individual items were scrapped, modified for legal sale or shipped back out of the country in 2015/16. These ranged from a…
Read MoreHow Trump can Influence Climate Change
EnvironmentOver the course of the presidential campaign, Donald Trump said that he would remove the United States from the Paris Climate Change Agreement. Trump is an outspoken climate change sceptic and his recent cabinet appointments – Rick Perry (Department of Energy) and Scott Pruitt (Environmental Protection Agency) – further cement…
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