SME Business News

A new FSB report entitled Social and Environmental Responsibility and the Small Business Owner reveals that a staggering 92% of small businesses are socially and environmentally responsible, with 83% already engaged in waste minimisation and recycling. 41 per cent of businesses bought products specifically because they were better for the environment.
Recent research conducted by the [...]

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I just came across this story that is worthy of a post, a real David & Goliath situation that has arisen in West Yorkshire over the last month or so.
When West Yorkshire council awarded a blanket recycling contract to French based firm Sita, it was assumed that the company would employ the twenty employees from [...]

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The European sector of the Dell Small Business Excellence Award has been won by a UK business that specialises in the design and creation of environmentally friendly and sustainable gardens.
The company Wiggly Wigglers was recognised as representing the best use of innovative technology in improving their customers experience of the product. They were also praised [...]

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UK Transport company First Group have signed a deal worth £25million with York City Council, to run a more energy efficient Park and Ride service for the City.
The contract which will be effective from February 2009 will see a new fleet of 32 environmentally friendly buses operating in York, in a bid to reduce pollution [...]

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Bus operator Stagecoach have revealed that eight buses on their fleet have been running on 100% biodiesel, manufactured from used cooking oil and other food industry by-products in an experiment, the first of it’s kind, started in October last year.
The project has cut CO2 emissions by 80% saving 550t of carbon.
The move is backed by the [...]

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Stagecoach Transport group, which operates 7,000 buses across the UK, is to adopt a fuel saving compound across its entire fleet after tests showed that it reduced usage by 4%.
The Perth based company first started using the diesel additive in 2004, but started a validation test last year, involving 550 vehicles. The results showed a [...]

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