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NEWS
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| | | Plastics In China: New Regulation for Plastic Waste Recycling | |
| BEIJING | China has implemented a new regulation to protect the environment and reduce and control the pollution during collection and recycling of waste materials. This new standard HJ/T 364-2007 will apply to the collection and recycling of various waste plastic materials, including the imported ones. |
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| | | CEPI Welcomes Measures To Improve Recycling | |
| BRUSSELS | The Confederation of European Paper Industries, CEPI, welcomes a number of the Waste Directive amendments that were discussed in the European Parliament’s Environment Committee, in particular those related to recycling and separate collection. Europe will only reach its goal of becoming a recycling society if modern legislation facilitates it with well written definitions, and the European Paper Industry is an example of how high levels of sustainable recycling can be achieved. |
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| | | Metso To Supply Board Line To Shandong Bohui In China | |
| SHANDONG BOHUI | Metso Paper will supply a coated board production line to Shandong Bohui in China. The start-up of the production is scheduled for the second half of 2009. The value of the order is around Euro 100 million. Metso’s delivery will include a complete coated board line with related air systems and two winders. |
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| | | Increased Concentrations Of Toxic Metals In E-waste Recycling Workshops | |
| BEJING | In a case study on how not to recycle electronic waste, scientists in the USA and Hong Kong have documented serious environmental contamination with potentially toxic metals from crude e-waste recycling in a Chinese village. |
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| | | Industry Pro Will Help Lead ERI’s Revolutionary Shredding Systems | |
| FRESNO | Electronic Recyclers International (ERI), the USA’s leading recycler of electronics and e-waste, announced that Peter Prinz, one of the country’s foremost shredding engineers, has joined its staff as Project Manager and Chief Automation Engineer. |
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| | | RI Seeks to Limit Electronic Waste | |
| PROVIDENCE | Rhode Island will establish a manufacturerfinanced system for the collection, recycling and reuse of old computers and other consumer electronic waste, under a measure now before the R.I. General Assembly. The Electronic Waste Prevention, |
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FEATURE
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| | | ELVs in West Africa - Material flows and recycling of ELVs | |
| Hundreds of thousands of used vehicles are transported annually by ship from Europe to West Africa. A large share are in questionable condition: the controversial grey zone between illegal, cross-border waste transportation and the export of used vehicles. From the perspective of German end-of-life vehicles recycling, this is a million-fold loss in a monetary sense as well as with regard to the whereabouts of important secondary raw materials. |
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OPINION
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| | | Indian Dismantling - The beginnings of a dismantling system | |
| Before the dismantling and recycling industries are set up, it will be prudent to understand fully the techno-economic problems of running recycling units in India. This is best achieved by setting up a demonstration unit to study the technical, manpower and economic implications and to evolve systems suiting unique Indian conditions. |
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ANALYSIS
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| | | Plastic Recycling in Poland | |
| Plastics manufacturing goes back to the 1930s. In the 1990s, despite structural changes, production of plastics increased due to the rise in demand for products manufactured from plastics, including packaging. |
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MARKET
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| | | Base Metals - No Easter-break for metals | |
| The base metals have had a volatile time in recent weeks, initially ahead of the Easter holidays some profit taking emerged which was enough to send copper down to US dollar 7,600/tonne and the others followed. However, once the pre-Easter selling had passed, the market bounced back. At the time it was questionable whether it was merley temporary or whether there was more to it. |
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