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FEATURE
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| Integrated compliance solution - One solution for 81 problems |
| The European countries generate around 1.3 billion tonnes of waste yearly; out of this amount approximately 2.2 million tonnes are collected as e-waste, 330.3 million tonnes are collected as packaging waste and less than 50,000 tonnes are waste portable batteries. Concerned about the state of the European environment, the EUCommission and European Parliament sharpen the rules for the eco-design of the manufactured products and for the management of their waste. [more...] |
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| Russian Recycling Industry - Like being in the 70s |
| The Russian waste disposal industry has lots of problems. Waste Management Professor Sabine Flamme on market potential. [more...] |
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| CO2 reduction - Abandon obsolete structures |
| Consistent policies on the utilising of wastes, rather than landfilling them, and optimising interaction between the various ways of reusing or recycling them via the market present considerable potential for climate protection and efficiency in Europe. [more...] |
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MARKET
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| BaseMetals - Correction of prices |
| The base metals have been undergoing a significant price correction as the market adjusts to the deteriorating economic outlook that has come about as the financial turmoil intensifies. For a long time copper and tin prices held up relatively well, while prices of lead, nickel, and zinc, had already fallen to levels below marginal costs of production. [more...] |
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| E-Waste in Canada - Gold Diggers in E-Waste |
| The recycling of electronic waste has meanwhile become an everyday practice in both Germany and most other European countries. The waste is collected at designated points either by local councils or other institutions. Various large transport companies then bring it to central reprocessing plants where it is then broken down into small pieces in large recycling plants and separated into valuable fractions. [more...] |
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| E-Waste in Ghana - E-Waste – resource or hazard? |
| The global market for electrical and electronic products continues to expand, while the lifespan of many products is dropping. This situation has resulted in a corresponding growth in electronic waste or “e-waste”. Obsolete electronic products contain valuable metals and other materials, though many also contain hazardous chemicals and materials. Governments in some developed countries are promoting recycling and starting to require that manufacturers safely dispose of products at the end of their working life. [more...] |
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| Takeover battle in USA - An abundance of offers |
| David P. Steiner, General Director of Waste Management, may well have lost his appetite when he read the news that landed on his desk at the end of June. There it was in black and white – his two closest rivals on the American waste management market had just announced their intention to merge. Reading between the lines, Steiner realised that his competitor Republic Services was in the process of attempting to outstrip Waste Management in the medium term. [more...] |
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| Basemetals - Copper leads, the others follow |
| On 10 September the metals started to undergo a rebound after what had turned out to be an extended period of weakness brought about by the turnaround in the dollar. Against the euro the US Dollar has climbed to a high of 1.3811. However, the strength in metals started to unfold despite the stronger dollar and seemed to be driven by expectations that demand for metals from China would pickup. [more...] |
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| Scrap Metal Recycling - A difficult Task |
| The Meretec system extracts zinc from galvanised steel before the steel is recycled and reclaims both materials for re-use. Its corporate ‘responsible recycling’ philosophy has changed the image of recycling operations from that of unsightly mountains of rusting metals, unsanitary pools of water and scruffy operatives to that of an ultraclean, fully automated system. [more...] |
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| Spanish Recycling Market: Only good chances |
| When Juan Carlos I sits on one of the spacious terraces of the Zarzuela Palace he can admire much more than the landscape northwest of Madrid. The Spanish monarch could soon be feasting his eyes on the growing mountains of refuse that get bigger by the year. For the quantity of refuse in Spain is growing faster than the national capacity to process it. [more...] |
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