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Food safety across the UK will be radically improved through an innovative new development created by a Cambridge partnership and announced today. Checkit (www.checkit.net/), the leader in automated monitoring and work management solutions across food, safety and facilities management, has partnered with Cambridge City Council in a flagship initiative to develop a next generation cloud-based food safety management system, which will revolutionise food safety compliance. The system, which builds upon the Food Standards Agency’s Safer…

Alupro study into ‘real’ recycling rate for aluminium packaging in 2015 reveals over 10,000 tonnes of unreported material The national recycling rate for all aluminium packaging now stands at 55% (previously 48%) and the estimated recycling rate for aluminium drinks cans has reached 69% (from 60%), but the figures could be even higher, indicates the Aluminium Packaging Recycling Organisation (Alupro). According to packaging waste recovery data recently released by the Environment Agency the “business” recycling…

All too often, public funds are used to purchase goods and services that are selected without regard for environmental or social responsibility. In Europe, the new EU Public Purchasing Directive offers governments an opportunity to tighten legislation surrounding sustainable purchasing, and for buyers at the local level to take advantage of existing opportunities to make more sustainable product choices. A new report from Sweden, Sustainable public procurement – from rhetoric to practice, takes a closer…