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The new African Marine Waste Network project was officially launched at South Campus in South Africa’s Port Elizabeth city by the Sustainable Seas Trust. The Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University hosted the launch. The project is part of a United Nations drive to address marine waste at a Pan-African level.

China has taken steps to tackle rising e-waste in the country by releasing stringent regulations on e-waste management which requires a comprehensive inspection of the locality and implements monitoring of the entire recycling process.

A recent study by India-based not-for-profit environmental organisation Toxics Link has found that plastic laden with harmful flame retardants might be contaminating the entire recycled plastic stream in the country.

U.K.-based firms continue to lead the charge in reducing food and beverage-related waste. There have been several developments in recent times aimed at reducing food waste.

Aluminum rolling and recycling specialist Novelis has announced three new senior executives.

The US has launched a trade enforcement action against China at the WTO concerning China’s export duties on several different raw materials. The EU intervened in this WTO challenge, a move that has been welcomed by the European Steel Association (EUROFER).

Another pre-treatment plant for household waste was ordered for the south-east of China from the Austrian-German technology firm Redwave.

According to preliminary ICSG data, the refined copper market for April 2016 (excluding the adjustment for changes in China’s bonded stocks) showed an apparent production deficit of around 110,000 metric tonnes (t) mainly due to strong Chinese apparent refined copper demand.

Japan’s GOMI Recycle 110 is looking to invest in a waste recycling factory in Cambodia’s Svay Rieng province. The factory would be set up to recycle plastic waste into finished products for local markets.

World crude steel production for the 66 countries reporting to the World Steel Association (Worldsteel) was 136 million tonnes (Mt) in June 2016, the same figure as June 2015.

The California Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery (CalRecycle) has said that the waste disposal rate in the state increased in 2015.

The Solid Waste Association of North America (SWANA) has announced the 2016 winners of the association’s annual Excellence Awards. San Jose, California-based Zanker Recycling was awarded the Recycling System Gold Award, the top honor, for its Demolition Recycling Operation. Silver was awarded to California-based Athens Services’ Sun Valley Mixed Materials Recovery Facility (MRF). Both systems were designed, engineered, manufactured and installed by Bulk Handling Systems (BHS).