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NEWS
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| | | Kadant: Contract of over US-Dollar 4 Million for Asian Recycling System | |
| WESTFORD | Kadant Inc. announced that it has been awarded a contract with a value of over US-Dollar 4 million from a leading producer in Asia for an OCC stock preparation system to produce linerboard. This pending order, which is scheduled for delivery in late 2008, will be recorded as an order when the down payment is received. It is currently anticipated the down payment will be received in spring. |
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| | | Paper Industry Calls on Commission | |
| BRUSSELS | The Confederation of European Paper Industries (CEPI) welcomes the publication of the ‘Communication on Forest-based Industries’, which formalises a clear strategy for the growth of the forest-based sector in Europe and recognises the importance of the sector in contributing to the mitigation in the production of renewable energy. |
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| | | Moscow: 11th Polyester Recycling Forum in Russian Capital | |
| MOSCOW | The 11th International Polyester Recycling Forum was held for the first time in Moscow. The issue of polyester recycling is relatively new in Russia. Bottle collection and sourcing of waste bottles in general remain, unfortunately, the biggest problems in this large country. |
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| | | Plastic Waste to Fuel Oil | |
| USA | Penn State University created Plastofuel, an easy handling fuel nugget made from various dirty plastics. All be it a hot technology and useful in it‘s purpose, Countries like Canada have been caught up in the burning of wood waste as a fuel source. A poor substitute (low efficiency BTU) for alternative energy and indeed some say dangerous to the environment by removing naturally bio-degradable vegetation from the forests. |
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| | | Recycling Technology for ‘Green’ Tourism | |
| AUSTRALIA | Technology that creates clean water and electricity from human and food waste could lead to a new range of internationally popular ‘green’ hotels across Australia, an industry group says. A University of Queensland and EcoNova project is currently building a pilot model of a waste treatment system that fully recycles human and food waste. Researchers want to market it to the tourism industry. |
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| | | Yorkshire Assembly Backs Waste Incinerator Near York | |
| YORK | They have been dogged by controversy, but plans for a waste incinerator for £18 million on the edge of a village near York have now been backed by the Yorkshire and Humber Assembly. BCB Environmental Management has submitted an application to North Yorkshire County Council for permission to build the plant at its site on Marston Moor Industrial Estate at Tockwith. |
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| | | Coca Cola Expands U.S. Recycling and Reuse Goals up to 100 per cent | |
| WASHINGTON, D.C. | The Coca-Cola Company announced a long term target to recycle or reuse 100 per cent of the aluminum beverage cans it sells in the U.S. This new objective builds on the Company’s previously announced goal to recycle or reuse 100 per cent of its PET plastic bottles. |
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| | | Pöyry Awarded Enzyme Plant Expansion Assignment by Roal OY | |
| FINLAND | Pöyry has been awarded an EPCM (Engineering, Procurement and Construction Management) services contract by Roal Oy for an enzyme plant redevelopment project in Rajamäki. The contract value is about Euro 3 million. |
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| | | Biffa agrees a private takeover | |
| LONDON| British waste management company Biffa has agreed to a £1.2 billion (US-Dollar 2.3 billion) private-equity takeover, just over a year after it was first spun off from parent company Severn Trent. |
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| | | 88 per cent of Businesses Waste Thousands on WEEE Disposal | |
| UK | Some 88 per cent of businesses in the UK could be wasting thousands of pounds because they are not aware of waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) regulations, according to environmental advisor NetRegs. A survey for the firm revealed that only 12 per cent of small businesses knew the regulations in the EU WEEE Directive, which was introduced in January 2007 and came into full force in July, meaning they could be wasting money on disposing their own old equipment. |
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| | | E-Waste in a “Cannibalistic” Society | |
| KENYA | Experts say Kenya is truly a “cannibalistic” society — and nowhere is this more apparent than in the ICT sector. Everyone who is anyone along the country’s supply chain of electronics is a “cannibal,” according to preliminary findings by a new study. From vendors to consumers, the trend among Kenyans is to use technology equipment to its dying breath, then try and sell any of the surviving parts for any profit. |
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| | | Aluminium cans recycling close to 60 per cent | |
| NAPLES | The overall recycling rate for aluminium beverage cans in Western Europe considerably improved in 2006 and stands now at 57,7 per cent, an increase by nearly 6 per cent compared to the 52 per cent result in 2005. This is mainly due to the numerous well performing collection and recycling initiatives throughout Europe. |
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FEATURE
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| | | Inkjet Heads towards Ecological Dead End | |
| The upcoming drupa fair – the world’s largest exhibition on printing and paper – that is scheduled to take place in Düsseldorf, Germany early this summer, is already expected to become ‘the inkjet drupa’. Many printer manufacturers will be presenting inkjet solutions for high speed, high volume transaction printing as well as solutions for newspapers. For the paper industry, this is not good news: currently, inkjet prints are not capable of being recycled for new newsprint or copying paper. Old newspapers or magazines printed with the traditional offset and gravure processes do not have this problem. |
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FACES
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| | | ERP: "We need a level playground" | |
| Europe consists of 27 states. And each of them has its own national version of the WEEE-Directive. The European Recycling Platform (ERP) wants to make chances and difficulties for all Euroepan equal in all states. |
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ANALYSIS
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| | | Plastic in China - Will Market Tools Change Old Habits? | |
| China recently launched a sudden blow to its plastic waste pollution. In January, the State Council, the nation’s cabinet, issued a directive prohibiting shops, supermarkets and sales outlets across the country from handing out free plastic bags starting on 1 June, according to the China News Agency. The ruling also bans the production, sale, and use of ultra-thin plastic bags under 0.025 millimetres thick. Businesses that flout the rules will be closed, fined or their goods and profits will be confiscated. |
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MARKET
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| | | Basemetals - Alu: A suitable case for treatment | |
| Aluminium is an extremely versatile metal, employed in a wide range of industries in a large number of applications. The key properties that make aluminium so popular are its lightness, resistance to corrosion, high electrical and thermal conductivity, and the fact that it is non-magnetic and non-sparking. The metal is also malleable and therefore easily worked by the major manufacturing and shaping processes, i.e rolling, extrusion forging and casting. In almost all its applications it is alloyed with other metals in order to increase its strength and machineability. |
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