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The rapid growth of the renovation market has helped to increase the exchange of aluminium windows and façades. Industrial and commercial buildings are being adapted to meet the increasing demand for insulation and comfort. The German Aluminium Recycling Initiative A/U/F has set targets of recycling aluminium windows and façades into …

After November 1, China will ban imports of scrap electronic goods such as refrigerators and television sets. Countries like Japan and the United States have traditionally dumped goods like these in China, where they are broken down for parts and re-built. Xinhuanet reports that the practice is about to stop, …

University Park, Pennsylvania. — After a decade of experimentation into creating fuel nuggets out of unrecycled waste plastics and burning them without creating toxic emissions, a team of researchers in Penn State‘‘s College of Agricultural Sciences recently received an $87,395 grant from the state Department of Agriculture to ramp-up their …

A new record for collection was reached in the first half of 2004 – 32.5 kg per head was diverted to household collection containers. The strongest growth was in the provinces of Vorarlberg, Carinthia and Burgenland. There has been an explosion in the collection of waste paper; ten years after …

A pilot scheme that has been introduced in Vienna and Salzburg, in which the yellow bin and the yellow sack are used to collect plastic bottles only, has proved to be a big success. The scheme is also running in lower Austria and is due to be launched parts of …

Gord Miller, Environmental Commissioner of Ontario (ECO), has released his fifth annual report to the Legislature. In his remarks at a press conference held this morning at Queen‘‘s Park, Commissioner Miller said that while he welcomed some of the government‘‘s recent proposals, the province still had a mixed environmental record …

The Republic of Ireland‘‘s Environmental Protection Agency has asked local authorities to carry out a trawl of their records in an attempt to clamp down on the operations of a Northern Ireland businessman, believed to be behind the country‘‘s biggest cross-Border waste-smuggling and illegal dumping operation. The Irish Times reports …

China‘‘s top legislature is deliberating a draft amendment to the Law on Solid Waste Pollution Prevention in an effort to avoid becoming the "world‘‘s largest dumping ground." The China Daily reports that the draft amendment, intended to improve the management of solid waste, was submitted for the "first deliberation" to …

Figures from the Welsh Assembly Government show a dramatic increase in recycling and composting in Wales, Minister for Environment, Planning and Countryside Carwyn Jones. The proportion of municipal waste being recycled or composted has risen from 12.7 per cent in 2002-03 to 17.6 per cent in 2003-04, excluding abandoned vehicles. …

West London Composting (WLC), the UK‘‘s first recycling centre modeled on advanced European standards, has signed an agreement with the London Borough of Harrow to process daily deliveries, of green and household kitchen waste including cardboard from the borough‘‘s kerbside collections. Designed to support Harrow Council‘‘s kitchen recycling trial in …