South Africa | The Competition Commission in South Africa is pursuing an investigation into Cisko, SA Metal & Machinery Company, and National Scrap Metal for price fixing and collusion in the scrap me ...
United States / There is "no proof" that Global Marketing Systems Inc. or Global Shipping LLC allowed a vessel with anything that violated the federal Toxic Substances Control Act to set sail. That's ...
Russia / United States | The International Iron and Steel Institute (IISI) forecasts 2008 will still be another strong year for the steel industry with apparent steel u ...
Waste production should be stabilised by 2012 compared to the 2009 position, says the Environment Committee of the European Parliament. The committee voted to reinstate most of Parliament's first read ...
South Africa | The Competition Commission in South Africa has imposed a 146 million Rand (US$18.75 million) ‘administrative penalty’ on one of the major South African scrap metal companies, New Re ...
European Union | A new study from the European Topic Centre on Resource and Waste Management (ETC/RWM) shows that transboundary shipments of waste have increased significantly over the last decade. An ...
India | In its latest budget, the Indian government has abolished import duties on scrap metal in a bid to provide some relief from soaring raw material prices. The 5% duty on iron, steel melting scra ...
Netherlands | The fate of large quantities of electronic waste is unknown, according to a Greenpeace report ‘Toxic Tech: Not in Our Backyard’. While some electronic waste may be accounted for by s ...
United States | US consumers who bought new mobile handsets in the final quarter of last year recycled their old phones at double the rate of the third quarter. Nevertheless, only 9.4% of those consum ...
United States | The city of New York is a step closer to adopting one of the toughest electronics recycling laws in the USA - despite strong objections from manufacturers and the city’s Mayor Michae ...
