Technology

Company's UK and Ireland restaurants, bars, and cafes to end use of plastic straws from June - and there's even a cocktail to mark the occasion

EEF's Brad Deane argues the government should properly streamline energy and carbon reporting requirements and focus on the real barrier to efficiency progress - long payback periods

Dearman's clean cold technology will be trialled by M&S to see if it could be suitable for nationwide use

Following the publication of Labour's new domestic energy efficiency strategy, Alan Whitehead takes aim at the scandalous loophole that will allow landlords to keep renting the coldest and most inefficient homes

Liontrust's Neil Brown looks at global efforts to address plastic pollution and highlights companies driving innovation in packaging, sustainable plastics and recycling

Airponix technology uses a nutrient-rich 'fog' instead of soil to grow vegetables, promising yields up to 50 times higher than commercial growers

Starship Technologies launches commercial rollout of autonomous delivery vehicles for campuses as it plans to deploy 1,000 robots this year

Andrew Warren welcomes the new Housing Secretary with a reminder that the government's plans for Display Energy Certificates remain remarkably opaque

Packaging giant reveals it hopes to have new straw for drinks cartons available by the end of the year

Too often initiatives for 'smart cities' skate over the environmental challenges, argues the EIC's Matthew Farrow