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The United States EPA, Washington, has sought the input of companies throughout the recycling supply chain to help it determine how best to encourage Americans to recycle more paper. Recycling Today reports that rhe federal agency hosted a meeting in early June of more than 40 people drawn from the …

London Remade is working to secure funding to attract a US-based company to locate a disposable nappy recycling plant in the capital. Letsrecycle.com reports that while the nation debates the benefits of re-usable or disposable nappies, the London market development organisation has been working with UK representatives of Knowaste, which …

In 2004, over 90 percent of electrical and electronic waste was collected and processed in an environmentally responsible manner. Norwegians are the best in the world when it comes to the collection of WEEE. Reports from the return systems for WEEE show that a total of 102,000 tons of WEEE …

The government of Malta will soon conclude the drafting a policy to be able to launch large projects of land reclamation from sea and the creation of artificial islands using construction waste, the Prime Minister Lawrence Gonzi stated. According to a report from Dive.com, while addressing his monthly press briefing, …

International Wastenews, Waste Centre Denmark no. 2, 2005 reports that Sweden is considering the introduction of a tax on waste for incineration. The Swedish BRAS committee has presented an extensive report proposing that the fossil part of the waste should be subjected to both an energy tax and a CO2 …

The Aluminum Association, Can Manufacturers Institute (CMI), and Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries (ISRI) has released statistics indicating that Americans and the can recycling industries recycled 51.5 billion aluminium cans in 2004, for a beverage can recycling rate of 51.2 per cent. This reflects a 1.2 per cent increase over …

The Commission announced in the Communication on Integrated Product Policy (COM(2003) 302 final) the intention to launch a work with the purpose of identifying products with the greatest potential for environmental improvement from a life-cycle perspective. This work started in 2004 and is being led by the Institute for Prospective …

A 100% increase in plastic bottle recycling over the past two years has been revealed by research funded by WRAP (the Waste & Resources Action Programme) and carried out by Recoup (RECycling Of Used Plastics). The UK Plastic Bottle Recycling Survey 2005 includes data submitted by all 477 UK local …

Australia has hit a new high in recycling of its newspapers, with a national average of 73.5% for 2003, according to the annual report on the recovered newsprint market from the Publishers National Environment Bureau (PNEB). The report, produced for the PNEB by the News Limited Environmental Secretariat, showed that …

Australia has hit a new high in recycling of its newspapers, with a national average of 73.5% for 2003, according to the annual report on the recovered newsprint market from the Publishers National Environment Bureau (PNEB). The report, produced for the PNEB by the News Limited Environmental Secretariat, showed that …