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Skip the skip

Putting waste in a skip is an accepted strategy – especially if that waste is being generated regularly as a business by-product. However, as at least one organisation has been discovering, having a skip on your premises can attract fly tippers. Not only does that mean that you have to pay for disposing [...]

By | September 17th, 2011|Categories: Business, Environment, Lifestyle|Tags: , , , , |0 Comments

Waste King rescues Giant African Land Snail

  Here’s a bizarre but heart-warming story for the summer holiday ‘silly season’.   Glenn Currie, managing director of the specialist collections, clearance and recycling company, Waste King, explained: “One of our customers was moving to the USA and so had to get rid of her pet Giant African Land Snail. We were [...]

By | August 19th, 2011|Categories: Environment, Lifestyle, Miscellaneous|Tags: , , , , , |1 Comment

Practical corporate social responsibility

Bob Little Press & PR client Waste King (http://www.wasteking.co.uk) - the specialist collections, clearance and recycling company which, earlier this year, received a Green Apple Award as one of Britain’s ‘greenest companies’ - has teamed up with the British Heart Foundation (BHF) and the Salvation Army in order to help other people’s waste materials benefit [...]

By | July 18th, 2011|Categories: Business, Environment, Lifestyle|Tags: , , , , , |0 Comments

Energy to collaborate and collaboration for energy

There is no chance of successfully delivering any of the UK’s energy strategy for the next 20 years or so unless the organisations involved engage in effective collaboration. That was the message of energy experts at the Energy conference held in the grounds of the iconic Battersea Power Station on 30th November. Steve Wildman, of [...]

By | December 11th, 2010|Categories: Business, Environment|Tags: , |0 Comments

Worldwide appeal for Leonardo project’s outcomes

ENABLE - a 24 month, 300,000 euro, EU-wide Leonardo project, which aims to bring e-learning to marginalised learners - is making such impressive progress that it is attracting interest from outside Europe and has received an enquiry from McGirr Associates, of New Zealand.   The ENABLE project involves Learning Light, The Workshop Sheffield (TWS) and [...]

The ecological price of learning

We all need to realise that there is a heavy ecological price to be paid for the sort of informal learning that comes from using an internet search engine. Apparently – according to new research by Harvard University physicist Alex Wissner-Gross – using the Google search engine to perform two searches produces some 7g of [...]

By | January 13th, 2009|Categories: Environment, Learning Technologies|Tags: , , , |0 Comments

Webconferencing is the answer – probably to every question

A recent survey conducted by communications consultancy group ICUGlobal has revealed that, from a poll of 300 organisations, 70 per cent rated ‘reducing organisational carbon footprints’ as a key driver in their organisation’s decision to invest in webconferencing and collaboration.   The survey revealed that while organisations are constantly reviewing corporate travel and other communication [...]

By | February 7th, 2008|Categories: Business, Environment, Lifestyle|Tags: , , |0 Comments