October 29, 2009
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Waste & Recycling Newsletter October 29, 2009 |
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How to reduce e-waste? Simple - slow down!
Research carried out by the Stanford Graduate School of Business shows that simply slowing down the rate of new product releases would lower the mountains of e-waste accumulating around the planet. Americans buy new cell phones every 18 months, Europeans buy them every 15 months, and the Japanese every 9 months. Global replacement rates for digital cameras range between two and three years. And U.S. businesses replace their PCs every four years. Where do most of these used products go? Directly into the trash. Indeed, in the United States alone, consumers throw away 400 million electronic ... |
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EC opens in-depth investigation into waste tax exemption
The European Commission has cleared under EC Treaty state aid rules a Danish proposal to grant certain reductions from a new tax on nitrogen emissions (NO X) for particularly heavy polluters. For industry which would be hit particularly hard by the tax, Denmark proposed two measures: the above mentioned NO X tax relief and a full exemption from the existing waste tax. Currently, only one company active in the cement industry would qualify to benefit from the two exemptions. The Commission concluded that the NO X tax relief was necessary and proportionate and as such in line with EU state aid rules. ... |
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