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EC taking timid step towards solving e-waste challenge, says EEB
EEB, Europe's largest federation of environmental citizens' organisations, welcomes the European Commission's proposal to strengthen the Directive on the recycling of waste electronic and electrical appliances (WEEE [1]). The proposal safeguards the environmental objectives and the main provisions of the original WEEE Directive such as individual producer responsibility (IPR), which creates ...
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Definition of solid waste revised to encourage recycling
A final rule under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act streamlines regulation of hazardous secondary materials when they are recycled by reclamation. EPA's regulation maintains strong protection of human health and the environment by limiting the streamlined requirements to specific, legitimate recycling activities. 'Removing barriers to legitimate recycling is good for business and the ...
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EPA and federal partners promote sustainable manufacturing in communities E3 projects under way in Alabama, Michigan, North Carolina, Ohio, South Carolina, Texas, West Virginia, and Wisconsin (HQ)
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) yesterday joined the Department of Commerce, the Department of Energy, the Department of Labor, and the Small Business Administration in the signing of a memorandum of understanding promoting the Economy, Energy, and Environment Initiative (E3). E3 projects are local public-private partnerships driven by communities to coordinate and strategically target ...
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