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Latin America – phone recycling programme

ReCellular Inc., a major wireless equipment reuse facilitator, and AHCIET, the Hispanic-American Association of Research Centers and Telecommunication Companies, has announced the signing of a new five-year agreement making ReCellular the exclusive provider of cell phone recycling and refurbishing services for AHCIET member companies. The agreement spreads the environmental and …

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USA – Chicago city recycling programme battles for participation and yield

Mayor Daley denies that Chicago‘‘s blue bag recycling programme is a failure, but said a sticker experiment will probably have to be extended citywide to boost sagging participation and get lazy homeowners involved. The Chicago Sun Times reports "Some people, you know, they‘‘re environmentalists, but they don‘‘t think it belongs …

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India – plastic roads to "become a reality" in the Capital.

The Municipal Corporation of Delhi has decided to introduce a technology which uses plastic waste in the construction of roads. Delhi will become the second city in India, after Bangalore, to introduce the technology. Delhi Newsline reports that for its pilot project, the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) has identified …

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France launches radical green tax on bigger cars

French drivers who favour large, gas-guzzling cars will have to pay up to EUR3,500 (£2,300) more for a new model from next January under a radical green road tax scheme unveiled by the environment ministry. The UK Guardian reports that part of a new environment bill aimed at cutting air, …

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