Computers gifted to developing countries by Co-operative Financial Services are being returned to the UK for safe recycling.


AN initiative to support ‘green entrepreneurs’ is being launched in London next month. The Enviro-Entrepreneur School aims to identify, encourage and nurture people who wish to start and grow a business in the environmental goods and services sector and who have a passion for recycling and a belief in the importance of environmental technologies. The school offers a three-day intensive programme delivered by seasoned entrepreneurs, business consultants and environmentalists While ...

THEY may not know it, but some restaurant customers in Yorkshire have been munching recycled cardboard with their champagne. The unique process of developing caviar from recycled cardboard was presented by Graham Wiles, from the Green Business Network, West Yorkshire, at the Social Economy Finance 2006 conference in Northern Ireland. Organisers Ulster Community Investment Trust described it as a thinking "outside the box" moment as European subsidies continue to reduce, according to ...