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The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and the European Environment Agency (EEA) have developed a database which will help governments choose a mix of economic instruments and voluntary approaches for environmental protection. These new tools play an increasingly important role in many countries, supplementing or replacing various types …

Jaguar Cars has teamed up with The Clean Merseyside Centre – the market development organisation for recyclable materials on Merseyside – to improve their environmental performance, through waste minimisation. Jaguar will be providing waste plastic from their production line at Halewood, Merseyside for recycling. The plastic will be reprocessed by …

A plan in Australia to pay cash for returning old cans and bottles for recycling has been binned because a carton of beer could go up by as much as A$5. The Australian Northern Territory Government is afraid beer and weekly shopping bills will go up if it introduced container …

Brian Wilson MP, Minister for Construction and Energy, today visited Greenwich, London to open the first Construction and Demolition Waste Eco Site of its kind in the UK. Britain’s building industry is a major extractor of raw materials and annually produces over 14 million tonnes of waste in London alone. …

Public administrations can save greenhouse gas emissions to the tune of 18% of the EU’s obligations under the Kyoto Protocol just by switching away from conventional power supplies to using electricity generated from renewable forms of energy. This is one of the early conclusions to emerge from a research project …

Letsrecycle.com (http://www.letsrecycle.com) reports that a two-year project, entitled “PROVE”, has established a set of industry-wide generic standards for recycled plastics across a range of engineering applications. Led by the British Plastics Federation (BPF) and the Consortium for Automotive Recycling (CARE Group), the study claims that it will give manufacturers – …

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The Channel Tunnel Rail Link and Terminal 5 at Heathrow, UK are just two examples of major construction projects that are currently utilising large quantities of recycled and secondary aggregates. However, until recently one of the major barriers to the wider use of these materials has been the lack of …

The Environment team at the British Embassy in Berlin, Germany have located a handy briefing note on envrionmental taxes in Germany. Written in January, this is an up-to-date review and is 11 pages long. It describes (in English) the ecological tax reform (ETR): introduction, continuation and further development. Through ETR, …