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Nokia expands recycling programme in India |
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January 05, 2009.
Finland mobile phone giant Nokia India has launched a takeback programme in India to encourage cell phone users to dispose of their used handsets and accessories, regardless of the brand, at recycling bins located at all Nokia priority dealers and Nokia care centres in India.
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Shandong Guanzhou to build a steel mill |
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January 06, 2009.
Steel maker Shandong Guanzhou Joint Stock Company Limited has signed an agreement with Beijing Central Engineering & Research Incorporation of Iron & steel Industry to jointly build a steel mill at cost of CNY 1.1 billion (US$161 million). ... more
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Rio Tinto sells China aluminium stake |
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January 05, 2009.
Mining and metal producer Rio Tinto has agreed to sell its half in a Chinese aluminium smelting joint venture to its partner Qingtongxia Aluminium. The deal isexpected to be completed early next year, executives at the two companies said.
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Hydro cutting German aluminium output |
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January 06, 2009.
Hydro Aluminium, the German unit of Norwegian group Norsk Hydro is cutting aluminium and aluminium product output in its German operations because of falling demand. ... more
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test article jan 2009 |
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November 26, 2008.
Recyclingbizz.com test article jan. 02 2009 by Jamie Roszel ... more
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Coolrec closes down recycling plant in UK |
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December 30, 2008.
Netherlands | Coolrec UK, part of the integrated waste management company Van Gansewinkel Groep, closes down its fridge and CRT recycling factory in Basildon, United Kingdom. Strong price competition in the UK recycling markets has significantly diminished prospects for the company. In addition, prices for output materials have plummeted due to the global economic situation, the Dutch parent group says.
Coolrec is active in the recycling of electrical and electronic equipment, especially discarded fridges, CRTs and small domestic appliances. European WEEE legislation makes this specific market segment a growth market. ... more
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MeWa’s new single-shaft pre-shredder |
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December 23, 2008.
German recycling machinery manufacturer MeWa Recycling Maschinen und Anlagenbau GmbH has introduced a high-performance solution for the pre-shredding of domestic and commercial waste. The AlphaCutter series is a slow-running single-shaft shredder for difficult materials with high throughput quantities. In three different rotor sizes ranging from 2200 to 3700 millimetres in length, the new development can prepare up to 50 tonnes per hour. ... more
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Master Magnets win Kiverco Contract |
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December 23, 2008.
Master Magnets Ltd. of Redditch, Worcestershire, UK, has recently won the contract to supply Kiverco Recycling Systems Ltd with all of their Magnetic Separation Equipment. ... more
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BIR Paper Mirror December 2008 |
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December 22, 2008.
The following article is based on the latest Paper World Mirror produced by the BIR world recycling body for the benefit of its members. ... more
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Norddeutsche renamed to ‘Aurubis’ |
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December 18, 2008.
Germany / Belgium | Following the takeover of Belgian copper producer in April, Norddeutsche Affinerie AG has renamed itself to ‘Aurubis’. ‘The name represents all that unites us and makes us strong, our common passion for copper,’ says Bernd Drouven, Chief Executive Officer of the German company. ‘Aurubis’ is derived from Latin and means „red gold“. ... more
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E Waste Center opens new facility as EWC Group |
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December 17, 2008.
A US, California based electronics recycler has opened its second e-scrap processing facility in Seattle, Washington. Under the name EWC Group, the company EWaste Center –headquartered in Los Angeles - has opened a new 50,0000 square foot electronic recycling facility. ... more
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PET collections in the US on the increase |
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December 16, 2008.
Over the year 2007, 633 million tonnes of Polyethylene Terephthalate (PET) bottles were collected in the United States, the highest PET container collection volume recorded to date and a 10% increase over 2006. ... more
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Salt slag recycler sells Canadian subsidiaries |
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December 16, 2008.
Aluminium salt slag recycling company AGOR AG, from Cologne, Germany, has decided it will sell its stake in 100% subsidiary ALSA Services Canada. The Supervisory Board of AGOR, in consultation with the Executive Board has decided the operation will take place before the year’s end. ... more
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New York governor signs plastic recycling bill |
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December 15, 2008.
Starting next month, many retailers in the US metropolis New York will be required to recycle plastic shopping bags under a bill New York Governor David Paterson signed into law on Saturday.
Effective January 1, large grocers and other retailers that offer plastic bags to their customers will be required to put out bins where shoppers can deposit them and recycle the returned bags. It's similar to a recently enacted California law, as well as local ordinances adopted in municipalities US wide, including New York City. ... more
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US company provides incentive to recycle sex toys |
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December 12, 2008.
Everyone’s jumping on the environmentally-friendly bandwagon these days and we mean everyone. That includes the magnificent makers of sex toys.
The Florida, United States firm Dreamscapes says it has taken a pioneering lead in the adult industry's Go Green initiative. They have organized an environmentally friendly way to dispose of used or broken vibrators, dildos, plugs, or any other sex toys for individuals, manufacturers and other adult businesses, such as the adult movie industry. ... more
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Germany IFAT exhibition moves to a two-year cycle |
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December 12, 2008.
The world’s biggest trade fair for environmental solutions, IFAT, is switching from a three-year cycle to a two-year cycle. The 16th International Trade Fair for Water – Sewage – Refuse – Recycling, will now not be taking place in spring 2011, but earlier, from 13 to 17 September in 2010. From 2012 onwards, IFAT will be returning to its spring slot. ... more
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Hydro adds furnace to recycling capabilities in Hamburg |
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December 09, 2008.
One of the world’s largest aluminium recyclers Norsk Hydro has inaugurated a new recycling furnace at its aluminium rolled products plant in Hamburg. The Euro 12 million (US$ 15.4 million) furnace in the German city is capable of swallowing up to 50,000 metric tonnes of used aluminium annually and remelting the metal for its next application. ... more
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Recylex suspends zinc production at German plant |
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December 09, 2008.
German zinc oxide producer Harz-Metall GmbH is temporarily stopping production because of the poor economic climate, its French parent Recylex says to news agency Reuters. Harz-Metall, based in Goslar in central Germany, produces waelz oxides (zinc oxide) by recycling steel residue collected after steel production. ... more
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Siemens to supply meltshop to Russia’s Maxi Group |
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December 10, 2008.
German metal technology specialist Siemens VAI Metals, has signed a contract with Kaluzhsky Scientific Industrial Electrometallurgical Plant, a company of Russia’s Maxi-Group, for the supply and installation of a new steelmaking meltshop in Vorsino, Kaluzhskaya Oblast. ... more
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Recycla Chile and Recyclebank ‘technology pioneers’ |
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December 10, 2008.
The World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland, has selected Chilean e-scrap recycler Recycla and the US rewards programme RecycleBank as pioneering technologies in the energy and environment section.
Among 32 other companies, both are recognized for their accomplishments as innovators of the highest calibre. They are companies with ‘life-changing technologies that will have a deep impact on business and society,’ ... more
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Shipbreaking industry in India gets tax relief |
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December 08, 2008.
The ship-breaking industry can now claim heavy deductions from their taxable income following a recent Supreme Court order. India’s Supreme Court, in its order in a case involving a major Indian shipbreaking company, has stated that ship-breaking activity tantamounts to production and not a recycling process. ... more
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BIR Non-Ferrous Mirror November |
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December 06, 2008.
The following article is based on the latest Non-Ferrous World Mirror produced by the BIR world recycling body for the benefit of its members.[/b]
Companies on the receiving end of broken scrap supply agreements should be prepared to take legal action against the buyers - either through their governments or the courts, according to the President of BIR’s Non-Ferrous Metals Division, Robert Stein of Alter Trading in the USA. If we don’t push back now, he says, a repetition of the actions of these buyers will become easier the next time round. ... more
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TSC to supply mega-shredder to Chinese company |
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December 08, 2008.
A new major shredding plant will be operational in China by the end of 2009 and will represent a total investment of more than US$ 15 million.
US shredding machinery manufacturer The Shredder Company (TSC) and stainless steel producer TISCO have signed an agreement whereby TSC will supply a new 10,000 HP 124 SXS shredding plant. ... more
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EU proposes new recycling guidelines for electronics |
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December 04, 2008.
In the four years since the European Union put forth environmentally constructive guidelines to reduce the straight-to-landfill disposal of electrical and electronic waste, only one-third of such waste has tended to be collected and recycled, as was otherwise the aim of the EU's legislation from 2004. ... more
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Most TV makers fail recycling test in US |
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December 02, 2008.
Just over half of 17 major television makers in the United States score a failing "F" grade when it comes to recycling old television sets, according to a survey carried out by recycling pressure group the Electronics TakeBack Coalition.
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