The Tees Valley Green Business Network is led by a range of local organisations with an interest in supporting businesses and encouraging improved environmental performance.

As the environment attracts more attention, as costs such as waste and energy rise and as major purchasers and the public scrutinise environmental credentials, it is increasingly important for businesses to look at their environmental performance.

The Tees Valley Green Business Network has been set up to help businesses find the information they need to take advantage of the commercial benefits that exist.

ESTABLISHING a carbon capture and storage cluster in the North-east is as potentially significant to the Tees Valley as the emergence of ICI in the 1950s, say business leaders.

A PIONEERING recycler has been handed a multi million pound grant to become the first non-bottle plastics recycler of its kind in the UK.

SHOULD we be down in the dumps about our rubbish mountain? Not on Teesside, says Environment Reporter Kelley Price.

IT'S the waste we'd all prefer not to talk about. But scientists at the University of Teesside are daily grappling with the challenge of converting the UK's millions of tones of sewage and other sludge into fuel.

A MIDDLESBROUGH company is doubling its output of energy-efficient windows with a £100,000 investment in capacity.

TEES Valley’s waste experts have echoed a highly critical review of Government attempts to tackle the UK’s waste mountain.

BOSSES will press the ‘big green button’ on the long-awaited Ensus bioethanol plant on Monday.

TEES Valley companies need to get a move on if they want to secure as much Government cash for electric cars as possible.