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NEWS
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| | | WRAP Study: Shipping bottles to China Helps to Save Carbon Emissions | |
| BANBURY | A new WRAP study has found out that selling the United Kingdom’s used plastic bottles and paper for recycling in China actually saves carbon emissions (CO2). Shipping these materials more than 10,000 miles produces less CO2 than sending them to landfill at home. |
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| | | Nokia Survey: Most of Consumers do not Recycle their Mobile Phones | |
| ESPOO | Only three per cent of people recycle their mobile phones despite the fact that most have old devices lying around at home that they no longer want, according to a global consumer survey released by Nokia. Three out of every four people added that they don‘t even think about recycling their devices and nearly half were unaware that it is even possible to do so. |
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| | | IFAT China 2008: E-Scrap Recycling at the Top of the Agenda | |
| BEIJING | China wants to increase its standards for recycling computers, televisions, refrigerators, etc. It is gradually drawing up a legal framework for this. |
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| | | London Hotel uses Krysteline’s Glass Implosion Process | |
| LONDON | The London hotel Grosvenor House has been carrying out a wide-reaching environmental review encompassing all waste with the aim of increasing recycling and reducing landfill. The British glass implosion process, invention of the Dorset firm Krysteline, fitted the bill, particularly as the process does not require the emptying of bottles and sorting of tops, etc. prior to processing. |
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| | | New ISO Norm to Assist | |
| GENEVA | A new ISO International Standard will assist the emerging worldwide market for plastic recovery and recycling. |
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| | | Recresco seals Glass Recycling Contract: 100 Million Pounds | |
| NOTTINGHAM | Recresco Ltd. has announced it has been awarded a ten year contract by Quinn Glass Ltd., a british manufacturer of glass bottles, to supply 2 million tonnes of recycled glass cullet over the next 10 years to their Cheshire plant. |
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| | | The Canadian Government Launches Vehicle Scrapping Program | |
| OTTAWA | The Government of Canada is launching a new national vehicle scrappage programme with U.S. dollar 92 million in funding that offers Canadians rewards for voluntarily retiring their old, high-polluting vehicles. |
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| | | ConAgra Foods to Eliminate Eight Million Pounds of Plastic Waste | |
| OMAHA | ConAgra Foods announced that it is going to incorporate post-consumer recycled plastic in its frozen meal trays, which will divert approximately eight million pounds of plastic from landfills to the recycling stream annually. |
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FEATURE
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| | | Scrap Metal Recycling - A difficult Task | |
| The Meretec system extracts zinc from galvanised steel before the steel is recycled and reclaims both materials for re-use. Its corporate ‘responsible recycling’ philosophy has changed the image of recycling operations from that of unsightly mountains of rusting metals, unsanitary pools of water and scruffy operatives to that of an ultraclean, fully automated system. |
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ANALYSIS
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| | | Spanish Recycling Market: Only good chances | |
| When Juan Carlos I sits on one of the spacious terraces of the Zarzuela Palace he can admire much more than the landscape northwest of Madrid. The Spanish monarch could soon be feasting his eyes on the growing mountains of refuse that get bigger by the year. For the quantity of refuse in Spain is growing faster than the national capacity to process it. |
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MARKET
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| | | Base Metals - A Moot Point | |
| The copper market is notorious for the failure of supply to keep up with demand because of various interruptions to production. |
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DATA
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SECTIONS
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| Recycling zinc from steel |
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