non-hazardous waste News
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New EU regulation for scrap exports
A new European Regulation has been introduced to control exports of non-hazardous recyclable and recoverable ‘wastes’ from EU-27 member states to mostly non-OECD countries. It replaces the short-lived and controversial Regulation 801/2007 that entered force in July this year. The new (EC) No. 1418/2007 regulation affects EU exports of ferrous and non-ferrous metal scrap, recovered paper, ...
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Demanufacturing could become the new manufacturing
As well as being taught the three Rs of reading, writing and arithmetic, schoolchildren nowadays learn new three Rs: reduce waste, re-use and recycle. But now there is a fourth ‘R' that manufacturers must learn: re-design. Companies that produce cars, fridges, PCs and a whole range of other goods must improve their designs to accommodate environmentally friendly disposal at the end of the ...
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