Environment Business News - Pupils were tasked with finding something that they no longer used and upcycle it into something they would be more likely to use. The winners of the competition were Amy Willis, 15, and Megan Broadhead, 15, who upcycled pallets making a bench for colleagues at Amy s dad s company, First Choice Labels.

Environment Business News - More and more the media is providing us with feel good stories related to recycling. Whether it be worldwide fashion brand Adidas selling more than a million pairs of shoes made from recycled ocean plastic in a calendar year or the medals for the Olympics being fashioned from gold of old mobile phones, there is no denying that we re making progress.

Environment Business News - Loadhog Ltd., an employee-owned designer and manufacturer of returnable transit packaging headquartered in Sheffield, UK, has experienced increasing interest in its line of eco-friendly pallet-securing products.

Environment Business News - The British countryside is being damaged by fly-tipping with litter and rubbish common sights on the UK s roads and verges.

Environment Business News - To facilitate the return, St John s Church in Killingworth Village has undergone a top to bottom deep clean and bizarrely, the business who won the work has a number of connections with the church - not least the fact that their name is incorporated in one of the world s most well known hymns.