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Britain‘‘s first household battery recycling plant has opened in the English Midlands, operating company G&P Batteries said. The plant, which cost £250,000 (US$481,000), will recycle alkaline and zinc carbon batteries, commonly used in household products such as portable radios and childrens‘‘ toys. G&P said the UK generates 30,000 tonnes of …

Toyota emerges as industry leader U.S. automakers received nearly failing grades in the use of recyclable, safe plastics in vehicles, according to a report released by the Michigan, US-based Ecology Center, in collaboration with Clean Production Action. The six top-selling automakers in the U.S. were graded on their commitment to …

Swiss cars could soon be running on a fuel based on agricultural waste, thanks to a project promoting essEnce5 – a mixture of bio-ethanol and petrol. The government – which favours the use of cleaner fuels – has decided not to tax the bio-ethanol produced in the project, called etha+. …

A parrot and a palm pilot With a sprinkling of holy water, a priest blessed thousands of palm seedlings in a ceremony in Bogota‘‘s main park, sealing an unusual Palm Sunday pact between the Roman Catholic Church and environmentalists to save a critically endangered parrot. Thousands of miles away, 22 …

Tsuneishi Corporation, a shipbuilder headquartered in Numakuma-cho, Hiroshima, and Sojitz Corporation, a major Japanese trading company, announced late last year that they have jointly launched an auto recycling business. Japan for Sustainability reports that besides end-of-life vehicles (ELVs) from conventional sources, the companies will accept automobiles that have been illegally …

The Australian Government appears determined to force the pace on plastic bags At a meeting of industry and environment groups at Parliament House, the Minister for the Environment and Heritage Senator Ian Campbell welcomed a set of draft principles to phase out plastic bag use by the end of 2008. …

Danish EPA Environmental Project no. 979, 2005 (17-03-05) This is an English summary of a publication in Danish. It is an interesting reflection as there are clearly pros & cons. For example England and Wales have chosen different approaches to limiting the landfilling of biodegradable municipal waste (ie the English …

Small scale composters exempt from charges….. New amendments to the licensing regulations for waste management will help protect the environment and human health, as well as save industry money, according to the Government. These regulations primarily amend the list of exemptions to waste management licensing to prevent abuses that have …

Expenses only – but a useful and interesting role RAY is a new £2m recycling market development programme for Yorkshire and the Humber. Funded through Yorkshire Forward and part-financed by the European Union; RAY will stimulate economic activity within the recycling supply chain. This in turn will lead to a …

50 million US homes own a working but disused mobile phone A new phone recycling programme by GRC Wireless Recycling pays companies for their unwanted inventory of retired cellular phones. The company‘‘s Wireless Industry Recycling programme pays companies at least US$1 per pound for phones shipped to GRC‘‘s facility in …