Global | Recycling of ferrous metal was significantly affected by the global meltdown, but has now shown signs of picking up. A Global Industry Analysts (GIA) Inc report shows that steel scrap consump ...
United States | US based-Basel Action Network (BAN), an organisation opposing the export of e-waste from rich to poor countries, has filed suit against the Institute for Scrap Recycling Industries (IS ...
Global | Governments recommend new 10-year vision for managing transboundary movements of hazardous wastes; this is one of the results of a Basel Convention meeting in Geneva, Switzerland. Greater emp ...
India | Following concerted pressure from the Metal Recycling Association of India (MRAI) in particular, the country’s Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) has issued a fresh notification removi ...
Netherlands | Dutch companies Heros - a recycling company - and Inashco are working on a process to convert bottom ash from incinerators to valuable materials.
Europe | In the 27 member states of the European Union (EU27), 524 kilogrammes (kg) of municipal waste was generated per person in 2008. 40% of this municipal waste was landfilled2, 20% incinerated, 2 ...
United States | Delta, Virgin America, Virgin Atlantic and Southwest are performing best in reducing the amount of waste generated by the air travel industry, reveals a new report focusing on US-based ...
The Netherlands | Like energy saving lamps, LCD displays –or ´flat screens´- contain mercury that can be released during collection and recycling. According to the European Electronics Recyclers Assoc ...
United States | A study conducted on behalf of the US-based Container Recycling Institute (CRI) has highlighted a number of negative downstream impacts resulting from the mixing of materials in single ...
