http://www.recyclingportal.eu Nachrichten auf www.recyclingportal.eu de MSV Mediaservice und Verlag GmbH msvgmbh@t-online.de (Oliver Kürth) WebCms by www.Confido.de, München msvgmbh@t-online.de (Oliver Kürth) 60 According to Ruggero Alocci from Alocci Rappresentanze Industriali the recent economic forecasts are showing the recovery in three stages. The first has been the global re-stocking in late 2009, the second will be a rise in business investment in mid 2010 and the third will be more consumption from Q4 2010 onwards. http://www.recyclingportal.eu/Artikel/23823.shtml http://www.recyclingportal.eu/Artikel/23823.shtml Märkte Thu, 11 Mar 2010 10:46:54 +0100 Norwegian emissions of some of the most hazardous substances were reduced by over 50 percent in 2007 in relation to 1995. A new report presents data concerning prioritised substances in Norway that are encompassed by national goals for both reductions in emissions as well as complete cessations of emissions in 2005, 2010 and 2020 respectively. The study is published by the Climate and Pollution Agency Norway. http://www.recyclingportal.eu/Artikel/23820.shtml http://www.recyclingportal.eu/Artikel/23820.shtml Abfall Thu, 11 Mar 2010 09:50:18 +0100 The EuroBioRef project coordinated by CNRS, France, has just been launched on the 1st of March 2010 for a four years duration. EuroBioRef will deal with the entire process of transformation of biomass, from fields to final commercial products. It will involve 28 partners from 14 different countries into a highly collaborative work. New synergies, cost efficiencies and improved methods will be achieved by involving the stakeholders at all levels. http://www.recyclingportal.eu/Artikel/23819.shtml http://www.recyclingportal.eu/Artikel/23819.shtml Forschung Thu, 11 Mar 2010 08:57:53 +0100 Environment Minister Edwin Poots has launched the Department of the Environment`s new waste prevention website, marking the first step in its Rethink Waste campaign. The Rethink Waste campaign website, aims to raise awareness, encourage best practice and achieve behavioural change among households, and the business, community and education sectors. The campaign seeks to effect a cultural shift towards better waste prevention and resource management and improved environmental quality in Northern Ireland. http://www.recyclingportal.eu/Artikel/23817.shtml http://www.recyclingportal.eu/Artikel/23817.shtml Politik Thu, 11 Mar 2010 08:12:49 +0100 National inventories for tracking waste types by location represent crucial environmental management tools and LIFE TCY support has helped develop a new web-based system for cataloguing and classifying Turkey’s growing volumes of hazardous waste. Managing hazardous waste effectively requires coordination of interrelated issues including regulatory controls, monitoring programmes, treatment technologies and stakeholder capacity building. http://www.recyclingportal.eu/Artikel/23816.shtml http://www.recyclingportal.eu/Artikel/23816.shtml Kreislaufwirtschaft Thu, 11 Mar 2010 07:22:52 +0100 The British Plastics Federation has made a statement in response to the Government's Consultation paper 'Implementing the Packaging Strategy' proposing a target of 56.9 percent plastic packaging recycling by 2020.Such a high target risks pushing the UK into recycling which is uneconomic and has environmental disbenefits through heavy use of energy and water. Germany has had an active plastics recycling scheme for 15 years and has only achieved a 42 percent recycling rate. http://www.recyclingportal.eu/Artikel/23805.shtml http://www.recyclingportal.eu/Artikel/23805.shtml Unternehmen Tue, 09 Mar 2010 11:44:11 +0100 Grocery manufacturers and retailers have agreed to make significant cuts to food and packaging waste that could save customers and the industry £1 billion and cut carbon emissions by three million tonnes, Environment Secretary Hilary Benn announced. Phase Two of the Courtauld Commitment will see the industry go further than ever, with renewed efforts to help householders waste less of the food they buy, reduce the environmental impact of packaging, and for the first time, address the waste from manufacture and supply. http://www.recyclingportal.eu/Artikel/23797.shtml http://www.recyclingportal.eu/Artikel/23797.shtml Abfall Mon, 08 Mar 2010 12:17:04 +0100 End of February 2010, one month earlier than the specified deadline, Sofia Municipality submitted the Sofia Integrated Waste Management System project. The total cost of the project is BGN 359,435,408 (Euro 182m), including over BGN 256 million envisaged to be provided by the EU European Regional Development Fund and the state budget via Operational Program Environment. The remaining amount of over BGN 103 million will be provided by the Sofia Municipality via a loan from the European Investment Bank. http://www.recyclingportal.eu/Artikel/23794.shtml http://www.recyclingportal.eu/Artikel/23794.shtml Kreislaufwirtschaft Mon, 08 Mar 2010 10:42:41 +0100 French environmental services company Suez Environnement has released its annual results 2009. For Waste Europe division this year was marked, on the one hand, by the sharp fall in industrial productions and, on the other hand, by weak demand for secondary raw materials. Sorting and Recovery were particularly affected in 2009. The fall in these activities represents almost 40 percent of the dividions turnover decline. http://www.recyclingportal.eu/Artikel/23792.shtml http://www.recyclingportal.eu/Artikel/23792.shtml Unternehmen Mon, 08 Mar 2010 09:37:27 +0100 Now in its eighth year, the Economic and Social Research Council’s Festival of Social Science is aiming to provoke debate and discussion about climate change and the environment from young people across the UK. Drawing on their passion and enthusiasm, festival events will be engaging young people in topics such as sustainable communities, how humans should respond to a changing climate, and how they can use less energy in their day-to-day lives. http://www.recyclingportal.eu/Artikel/23765.shtml http://www.recyclingportal.eu/Artikel/23765.shtml Forschung Thu, 04 Mar 2010 11:13:49 +0100 The World Steel Association (worldsteel) has published the 2009 Steel Statistical Yearbook that is now available on the website. Worldsteel’s new statistical yearbook presents a cross-section of steel industry statistics. It contains comprehensive statistics for 2008 on crude steel production by process, steel production by product, steel trade by product, apparent steel use, and production and trade of iron ore. http://www.recyclingportal.eu/Artikel/23760.shtml http://www.recyclingportal.eu/Artikel/23760.shtml Unternehmen Thu, 04 Mar 2010 08:19:51 +0100 Zero Waste Scotland is launching a £5 million capital grant programme on behalf of the Scottish Government to develop plastics reprocessing infrastructure in Scotland. The programme can provide financial assistance towards facilities capable of sorting, recycling and reprocessing a range of plastic waste, thereby diverting a minimum of 20,000 additional tonnes from landfill per annum. http://www.recyclingportal.eu/Artikel/23757.shtml http://www.recyclingportal.eu/Artikel/23757.shtml Politik Wed, 03 Mar 2010 10:52:21 +0100 The British Plastics Federation has published its January Business Conditions’ Survey, and held its Council Meeting at the Bank of England to share views on business trends with the Bank and Department of Business, Innovation and Skills officials. The President of the BPF Paul Jukes said, "We are by no means out of the recession. It will be a slow and arduous climb to recovery.” http://www.recyclingportal.eu/Artikel/23756.shtml http://www.recyclingportal.eu/Artikel/23756.shtml Märkte Wed, 03 Mar 2010 10:31:05 +0100 A 'Lazurus effect', which could see unsafe vehicles returning to UK roads or being sold abroad, could put lives at risk according to Bluecycle, the leading online auction house for automotive salvage. Bluecycle, the UK’s largest insurer, claims that up to a million vehicles a year that are taken off the road are avoiding destruction illegally, due to insufficient resources available to enforce European legislation governing their recycling. http://www.recyclingportal.eu/Artikel/23753.shtml http://www.recyclingportal.eu/Artikel/23753.shtml Kreislaufwirtschaft Wed, 03 Mar 2010 09:03:32 +0100 During February the headlines were full of reports of the extremely poor inflow of collected scrap due to adverse weather conditions coupled with high demand from the German mills and failing sales levels for long steel products. The price offered by German mills remained more or less unchanged in comparison to January, with the exception of a few mills located in eastern Germany where price increases of EUR 5 – 8 were offered in an attempt to stimulate scrap inflow. http://www.recyclingportal.eu/Artikel/23752.shtml http://www.recyclingportal.eu/Artikel/23752.shtml Märkte Tue, 02 Mar 2010 15:58:08 +0100 According to a new report from EP Resources Pte Ltd, Asian countries have introduced a raft of new legislation, tweaks to existing laws, administrative policy changes. The report "Asian Packaging & Environmental Laws – A Compliance Guide" analyses the key laws, standards and packaging codes which currently regulate the industry in China, Japan and South Korea, provide commentary and place them in the cultural context. http://www.recyclingportal.eu/Artikel/23751.shtml http://www.recyclingportal.eu/Artikel/23751.shtml Recht Tue, 02 Mar 2010 12:47:45 +0100 It is estimated that CEPI member countries produced less than 90 million tonnes of paper and board in 2009, the lowest annual total production since 2001. This represents a fall in the region of around 11 percent over 2008, which is slightly better than the European manufacturing industry taken as a whole. It would appear that the overall output performance of the CEPI countries in total during 2009 is much the same as that of the other major paper producing regions of the world. http://www.recyclingportal.eu/Artikel/23750.shtml http://www.recyclingportal.eu/Artikel/23750.shtml Märkte Tue, 02 Mar 2010 11:00:40 +0100 Wales will host a number of pioneering trials to investigate the commercial potential for using BSI PAS 100 compost and anaerobic digestate in new landscape and brownfield regeneration projects. Aimed at developing end market use in the regeneration of quarries, open cast mines and landfill sites, the new trials will provide evidence to local authorities that the diversion of organic waste from landfill carries environmental and economic benefits. http://www.recyclingportal.eu/Artikel/23749.shtml http://www.recyclingportal.eu/Artikel/23749.shtml Forschung Tue, 02 Mar 2010 10:36:04 +0100 New research led by WRAP (Waste & Resources Action Programme) is set to calculate the amount of waste in the UK retail supply chain for pre-prepared food for the first time – and identify how this can be reduced in order for businesses to make cost and environmental savings. Covering four representative products - sandwiches, pizza, quiche and ready meals - the research will develop detailed ‘resource maps’ to highlight the amount of food and packaging waste. http://www.recyclingportal.eu/Artikel/23748.shtml http://www.recyclingportal.eu/Artikel/23748.shtml Kreislaufwirtschaft Tue, 02 Mar 2010 10:04:10 +0100 Fortum is building a new combined heat and power plant in Klaipeda, Lithuania. The value of the investment is approximately 140 million euros. The power plant will be completed by 2013. The new power plant will be fuelled by municipal and industrial waste and biomass. The production capacity will be approximately 50 megawatts of heat and 20 megawatts of electricity. The district heating produced will be sold to Klaipedos Energija and the electricity to the Lithuanian national grid. http://www.recyclingportal.eu/Artikel/23726.shtml http://www.recyclingportal.eu/Artikel/23726.shtml Unternehmen Fri, 26 Feb 2010 10:02:53 +0100