BUDGET supermarket Iceland has come bottom in a new survey examining the global warming impact of supermarket in-store fridges and freezers.
The Chilling Facts survey, carried out by London-based campaign group, the Environmental Investigation Agency EIA) asked supermarkets about the global warming impacts of their refrigeration.
Marks & Spencer came top of the league table, mainly [...]
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How the steam technology would use the heat from a truck’s engine to power its refrigeration unit
Say “steam power” and you conjure up images of Stevenson’s rocket, Isambard Kingdom Brunel and the heyday of the Victorian railways – romantic, but hardly the stuff of a clean, cutting-edge technology.
But steam could be about to make a [...]
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The future of our seas has never been more precarious. Ninety years of industrial-scale overfishing has brought us to the brink of an ecological catastrophe and deprived millions of their livelihoods. As scientific guidelines are ignored and catches become ever bigger, Alex Renton tells why the international community has failed to act.
It is early morning [...]
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A supermarket chain is to give away 1m energy-saving light bulbs this weekend.
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