Zusammenfassung der Ressource
The UK's attempted sustainability
- EDUCATION
- TEACHING
- RECYCLING
- SUSTAINABILITY
- ONE'S PART AS A CITIZEN OF THE EARTH
- ADVERTS
- EFFECTS OF:
- LAND POLLUTION
- SEA POLLUTION
- AIR POLLUTION
- DAMAGING ATMOSPHERE
- HOW AND WHERE TO RECYCLE
- CONSERVATION
- NATURAL ENGLAND
- NON-DEPARTMENTAL PUBLIC BODY
- RESPONSIBLE FOR ENGLAND'S :
- LAND
- FLORA
- FAUNA
- FRESHWATER AND MARINE ENVIRONMENT
- GEOLOGY AND SOILS
- FORESTRY COMISSION
- NON-MINISTERIAL GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENT
- SET UP IN 1919
- FOR EXPANDING BRITAIN'S FORESTS AFTER DEPLETION DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR
- ENVIRONMENT AGENCY
- NON-DEPARTMENTAL PUBLIC BODY
- ESTABLISHED IN 1996
- PURPOSE IS TO PROTECT OR
ENHANCE THE ENVIRONMENT,
TAKEN AS A WHOLE
- COVERS THE WHOLE OF ENGLAND
- 13 MILLION HECTARES OF LAND
- 22,000 MILES OF RIVER
- 3,100 MILES OF COASTLINE
- RECYCLING
- IN 2013, 43,5% OF MUNICIPAL WASTE WAS RECYCLED,
COMPOSTED OR BROKEN DOWN BY ANAEROBIC DIGESTION
- HOUSEHOLD WASTE RECYCLING ACT 2003
- LOCAL AUTHORITIES MUST PROVIDE EVERY
HOUSEHOLD WITH A SPERATE COLLECTION OF
AT LEAST TWO TYPES OF RECYCLABLE
MATERIALS BY 2010
- HOUSEHOLD RECYCLING
- 37% OF HOUSEHOLD WASTE WAS RECYCLED IN 2008/09
- 235% INCREASE IN HOUSEHOLD RECYCLING
BETWEEN 2000/01 AND 2009/10
- 23 MILLION TONNES WASTE PRODUCED IN 2009/10 OF WHICH
9.4 MILLION WAS RECYCLED, REUSED OR COMPOSTED
- COMMERCIAL AND
INDUSTRIAL RECYCLING
- 52% OF C&I WASTE WAS RECYCLED IN 2008/09
- INCREASE FROM 42% IN 2002/03
- RENEWABLE ENERGY
- WIND ENERGY
- 6,594 WIND TURBINES
- TOTAL: OVER 13 GIGAWATTS
- 8,357 MEGAWATTS OF ONSHORE
- 5,048 MEGAWATTS OF OFFSHORE
- SOLAR POWER
- AT THE END OF 2011, THERE WERE 230,000 SOLAR PROJECTS
- TOTAL INSTALLED CAPACITY OF
750 MEGAWATTS
- REDUCTION IN COST OF PHOTOVOLTAIC PANELS
- TIDAL ENERGY
- NOT A LOT OF MONEY INVESTED
- CONSEQUENTLY HASN'T BEEN
EXPLOITED TO FULL POTNETIAL
- INTRODUCTION OF FEED-IN-TARIFF
SUBSIDY IN APRIL 2010