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The newspaper European Voice covered the important, topical issue of the revision to the EU Waste Framework Directive (WFD), dedicating several pages to the consequences of the proposed changes. Here are some relevant extracts. Europe‘‘s war on waste The European Commission is preparing to overhaul the waste framework directive as …

Interfax-China reports that district level officials in Shanghai have blocked Loyalty Enterprises Group from building an electronics recycling plant for more than a year due to fears the facility will damage the local environment, a Loyalty Enterprises official said Friday. Loyalty Enterprises said last year it would establish an electronics …

A governmental committee has been established to discuss a mandatory system for collecting and recycling used car batteries, and its first meeting was held on May 11, 2005. Japan for Sustainability (JfS) reports that the committee consists of the members of the Central Environment Council, an advisory panel to the …

The Taiwanese Environmental Protection Administration has decided enforce recycling of waste cooking oils from next year, and will stipulate fines of between NT$1,200 (£20) and NT$5,000 (£84) for persons found mixing waste cooking oils with garbage. Taiwan News reports that, according to the EPA, the move is aimed at launching …

Research from WRAP (the Waste & Resources Action Programme) shows that wood recycling in the UK has increased by a massive 85 per cent since 1996, with more than 1,200,000 tonnes of wood waste being recycled in 2004 alone. The research also shows that the end uses are evolving as …

Mandar lixo reciclável para o exterior. A idéia pode parecer utópica, mas esse é o propósito do italiano Claúdio Marchi, que chegou a Londrina há pouco mais de um ano e está vendo nas embalagens pet e tetra pak boas fontes de renda fora do Brasil. Trabalhando como contato internacional …

Enfrentar o trânsito da cidade, especialmente na hora do rush, é irritante para qualquer motorista, de carrinho ou de carrão. Imagine para um cavalo, um burrinho ou um jumento engatado a uma carroça, carregando quilos de material e ouvindo buzina por todos os lados. Imagine agora a falta desses animais, …

A new text service has been launched by Recycle for London to make recycling even easier for Londoners. The text service is the first of its kind in the country. Residents in the capital will be able to request details of when their recycling is collected or where their nearest …

Recycling of household waste has doubled in the last four years, according to new provisional figures published by the UK Government‘‘s Department of Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (Defra). The figures show that English households recycled more than a fifth of their waste, (approaching 23%) in 2004/05. They are the …