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Highlight Your Event in the Next Issue of our Newsletter Looking to get the word out? If you would like to include an event or program in the next editions of the Wastexchange.co.uk Newsletter, contact us by email at marketing@garwer.com. We will highlight your event in the Featured Event section of our beweekly Newsletter, circulated to more than 2,000 international recyclers, traders, waste management companies and consultants, public body etc...  11th international Trade Fair of Material and Energy Recovery and Sustainable Development 07-10 November 2007 , Rimini, Italy 
 UK: Minister "very concerned" about re-use of WEEE 14/07/2007 (letsrecycle.com) Minister Malcolm Wicks has admitted he is "very concerned" about whether unwanted electronic appliances are being genuinely re-used under the new producer regulations, which came into force on July 1. The energy minister revealed in a Parliamentary debate on Tuesday that his Department, the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, is in talks with the environment agencies concerning the possibility that waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) is being disguised as re-usable items, before being shipped out of the country.... EU-27 Shipments to non-OECD Countries - New Regulation 14/07/2007 (bir.org) With respect to Regulation (EC) No. 1013/2006, which will come into effect on July 12, 2007 the awaited new Commission Regulation was published this Saturday. It records the responses of 21 non-OECD countries as to whether they wish to ban the import of non-hazardous recyclables (termed wastes in the legislation) or allow import under control of prior notification and written consent or allow import under normal commercial transactions. Download Regulation 801/2007 here in English ; German ; French ; Italian Singapore - Food Waste. 14/07/2007 (Knoten Weimar) This month one of the largest Asian plants for processing food waste will open its doors in Tuas. It will create biogas and compost and should be able to process 300 tons per day by the end of the year. In Singapore 1,400 tons of this type of waste are created daily, from which a maximum of only 9 percent can be processed. By 2012, the country wishes to have increased this to 30 percent. Source: The Straits Times Singapore, June 13, 2007 or Polish carton food and drink chain's waste plan 12/07/2007 (ENDS Europe) Polish carton manufacturers and makers of the food and drink sold in them have agreed to create a financial mechanism to collect and recycle higher volumes of their packaging waste. The voluntary agreement has been endorsed by environment minister Jan Szyszko. The Rekarton initiative is being backed by carton market leaders Tetra Pak, Combibloc and Elopak. It aims to recycle three per cent of the waste (about 900 tonnes) by end of 2007, rising to 15 percent by 2015. Currently 90 per cent of carton packaging waste ends up in landfills. Food and drink producers will pay into the scheme €1.32 per tonne of carton packaging introduced on the market. The proceeds will be spent on facilities for sorting carton packaging, on the transport of carton packaging waste and on waste management costs incurred by local authorities. Carton makers will cover administrative costs. Follow-up: See Rekarton and news item (Polish). Italy and Austria get European court raps 12/07/2007 (ENDS Europe) The European court of justice has condemned Italy for breaching EU laws on environmental impact assessment and waste incineration. Austria has also been censured over public access to green information. In a ruling issued last Thursday EU judges said Italy had failed to carry out an impact assessment before authorising the extension of a waste incineration plant operated by firm ASM Brescia. The project involved building a third incinerator line at the plant. Under EU law all waste disposal or recovery projects with a capacity of at least 100 tonnes per day must undergo an impact assessment. The project falls into this category, judges said. The court also condemned Italy for failing to make the project known to the public under the EU's 2000 waste incineration directive, so that interested individuals and groups could submit comments before authorisation was granted. In a second ruling on Thursday the court condemned Austria for not fully implementing the EU's 2003 directive on public access to environmental information. The deadline for transposition into national law fell in February 2005. But information submitted by Vienna following a final warning sent by the European commission at the end that year showed that several regions of the country had still not transposed the directive. Follow-up: European court of justice | judgements in cases C-255/05 (Italy) and C-340/06 (Austria). Manchester agrees plan to burn residual waste 12/07/2007 (letsrecycle.com) Residual waste from the Manchester region is likely to be burnt at Runcorn in Cheshire under an agreement reached with operators of the Ineos Chlor petro-chemical plant. Announcing the plan to burn the waste at a new combined heat and power plant for which planning permission is now being sought, it was also revealed by the Greater Manchester Waste Disposal Authority that its signing of a contract with its preferred PFI bidder has been delayed until September... Zero waste question hangs over Scotland 12/07/2007 (letsrecycle.com) Continued uncertainty over the future of waste and recycling in Scotland has been reported following a change of government in May. The Scottish Executive has revealed that since the Scottish National Party overtook labour as the largest party in Scotland two months ago, ministers are yet to hold a consultation on waste.... UK: WEEE start sparks relief for recyclers 12/07/2007 (letsrecycle.com) The WEEE Directive came fully into force in the UK the 1th July, with a sense of relief pervading the recycling industry, having been through so many false dawns. Delayed for two years, the legislation was finally laid before Parliament back in December, but only from the past week have producers become financially responsible for collecting and recycling waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE).... EU ministers reach agreement on Waste Directive 03/07/2007 (letsrecycle.com) European Member States reached political agreement on the revision of the Waste Framework Directive yesterday, including the re-classification of certain incinerators as "recovery" facilities. The acceptance of criteria to allow the most efficient incinerators to be re-classified away from the "disposal" label came with concessions made to those countries worried about waste being imported for incineration. The meeting of the Environment Council in Luxembourg saw environment ministers from EU countries confirming a flexible five-stage waste hierarchy starting with prevention of waste as the environmentally preferred option, followed by reuse of products, recycling/composting, recovery of energy by incineration, and with disposal in landfill as the least favoured option. Action was agreed on waste prevention through a commitment by Member States to deliver national waste prevention programmes. And, the definition of waste is to be made clearer, with new criteria to be established to determine when certain materials - including compost and aggregates - should be considered as a "product", rather than a "waste" once recycled. However, the Council meeting did not see new recycling targets as put forward by Europe's Parliament given Member States' seal of approval... EU ministers seal deals on waste, water, mercury 03/07/2007 (ENDS Europe DAILY) EU environment ministers have reached unanimous political agreement on proposals to revise the bloc's waste management rules, following "difficult negotiations" in Luxembourg on Thursday. An efficiency formula to reclassify efficient waste incinerators as recovery operation was adopted but with the possibility of opt-outs for some plants... 
 Multi-directional recycling of solid leather wastes - including chrome-tanned offal, combined with recycling of sewage sludge - including chromium-containing sludge A Polish small company offers a technology that enables purification of all-title offal from heavy metals by closed-cycle leaching & closed-cycle extraction of contaminants, followed by common recycling of de-tanned leather, meat processing waste, biomass & organic residue of sewage sludge & some separated inorganic compounds, mainly into innovative fertilisers. Process is effluent- and waste-free. The company is looking for financial resources, license agreement, technical cooperation or JV. (Ref: 07 PL SPCU 0ICV - 12/07/2007) Colour-vision-sorting machine A French SME specialised in selective technologies for recognition and waste separation has developed a new vision-sorting machine that is able to sort hollow bodies by colour vision, in one pass. The company is looking for commercial and industrial partners. (Ref: 07 FR FMCP 0IB4 - 05/07/2007) Near infra-red multi-material sorting machine for household refuses A French SME specialised in selective technologies for recognition and waste separation has developed a multi-material sorting machine that uses NIR (Near Infra Red) technology to identify all materials in one pass. The company is looking for commercial and industrial partners. (Ref: 07 FR FMCP 0IB6 - 05/07/2007) New paper-sorting machine A French SME specialised in selective technologies for recognition and waste separation has developed a new paper-sorting machine that uses multi-spectral image analysis technology to identify different types of paper in one pass. The company is looking for commercial and industrial partners. (Ref: 07 FR FMCP 0IB8 - 05/07/2007) Purification of Molybdenum-scraps to high-purity Molybdic Oxide An Austrian company has developed a recycling technology for purification of Molybdenum (Mo)-scraps to high-purity Molybdic Oxide (MoO3), which has not been possible until now. MoO3 is an essential raw material for the production of Mo parts for the lighting industry, electronic applications, furnace construction and corrosion-resistant parts in the chemical industry. They are looking for cooperation partners for manufacturing agreements. (Ref: 07 AT ATBI 0I8M - 28/06/2007) 
 World Water Week The World Water Week in Stockholm is the leading annual global meeting place for capacity-building, partnership-building and follow-up on the implementation of international processes and programmes in water and development 12 - 18 August 2007 Stockholm, Sweden International Conference on Sustainable Landfill Management The International Conference on Sustainable Landfill Management will provide a forum to share ideas and experiences in this field where leading experts present their research activities and discuss new concepts and technologies for Sustainable Waste Management. 05 - 07 September 2007 Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India Recycling Aktiv 1st demonstration show for recycling machines and systems 05 - 07 September 2007 Karlsruhe, Germany RWM07 - The Recycling and Waste Management Exhibition 2007 The UK's leading dedicated event for the Recycling & Waste Management Industry 11 - 13 September 2007 Birmingham, United Kingdom ISWA-NVRD World Congress From 24 to 27 September 2007 all eyes of the international waste management sector will be on Amsterdam. This lively cosmopolitan city will then be hosting the ISWA/NVRD World Congress 2007 organised by the NVRD, the Dutch Solid Waste Association. The congress gives you a unique opportunity to share your knowledge and experiences of sustainable waste management in an international forum; a chance to catch up with your international contacts and expand your network. 24 - 27 September 2007 Amsterdam, Netherlands 2007 Recycling Waste Reduction Conference Waste Reduction Conference 26 - 28 September 2007 Calgary Alberta, Canada Sardinia 2007 - Eleventh International Waste Management and Landfill Symposium The Biennial International Symposia in Sardinia were established in 1987 in order to render ideas and experiences in the rapidly developing field of waste management and landfilling readily available to professional communities worldwide. Since then these Symposia have rapidly become the International Reference Forum where planners, operators, public officials and scientists present their relevant experiences and propose and discuss new concepts and technologies of landfilling and waste management. The 2007 edition promises to repeat the success obtained in previous editions. A stand at Sardinia 2007 is a unique opportunity for companies to reach major international operators in the field of waste managemen and sanitary landfilling. 01 - 05 October 2007 S. Margherita di Pula (Cagliari), Italy European Paper Recycling Conference 2007 The European Paper Recycling Conference offers recovered paper merchants, brokers, consumers, mill representatives and equipment and service providers involved in the paper recycling industry an important forum to network with industry colleagues and discuss the latest market trends. 03 - 05 October 2007 Amsterdam, Netherlands WASTECON 2007 SWANA's WASTECON is a business casual/casual event; jackets and ties are not required.... 16 - 18 October 2007 Reno, Nevada, United States BIR Autumn Convention BIR (Burea of International Recycling) autumn Convention 22 - 23 October 2007 Warsaw, Poland E-Scrap 2007: The North American Electronics Recycling Conference E-Scrap 2007: The North American Electronics Recycling Conference will feature extensive and detailed industry assessments, including analyses of stewardship systems and trends in the U.S. and Canada, e-scrap collection issues, recycling market factors, and legislative and policy considerations. 24 - 25 October 2007 Atlanta, GA, United States Ecomondo 2007 11th international Trade Fair of Material and Energy Recovery and Sustainable Development 07 - 10 November 2007 Rimini, Italy World Recycling Forum - Shanghai '07 International Conference & Recycling Expo 13 - 16 November 2007 Shanghai, China, People's Rep. 7th International Exhibition on Tyres & Rubber Technology Since 1998, RubberTech China has attracted nearly 1,000 exhibitors and 25,000 visitors from more than 50 countries & regions throughout the world, and hence become the largest official rubber exhibition in China. 14 - 16 November 2007 Shanghai, China, People's Rep. 2nd National Landfill & Transfer Stations Conference Following on from the very successful conferences in 2005 and 2006, the 2nd National Landfill and Transfer Station Conference is intended to provide a networking forum and opportunity to discuss what is new in Landfilling and Transfer Stations around Australia . The industry has the opportunity to show that it is serious about reaching best practice and to ensuring it continues to provide cost effective and environmentally sound residual waste disposal... 19 - 21 November 2007 Melbourne, Australia POLEKO 2007 POLEKO is a perfect meeting place for experts from the sector of environmental protection and municipal technology from Poland and abroad. It is also a good opportunity to promote innovative solutions in these sectors 20 - 23 November 2007 Poznan, Poland Canadian Waste & Recycling Expo Celebrating their 10th year, CWRE is Canada's ONLY tradeshow serving the waste, recycling and public works market. Focus areas include collection, hauling, processing and disposal of waste; materials recycling; municipal recycling programs including blue box programs, MRFs, scrap metals, C&D, wood, plastic, paper, auto, tires, fiber and more. 28 - 29 November 2007 Vancouver, Canada International Electronics Recycling Congress International Electronics Recycling Congress 17 - 18 January 2008 Salzburg, Austria CODIS 2008 CODIS 2008 is a platform where scientists, practitioners and authorities meet to discuss current issues and future trends. The main focus of CODIS 2008 will be on the quality of compost and digestate derived from source separated biogenic waste and animal manure. Benificial and adverse impacts on the environment and plant production due to the application of compost and digestate and the production of renewable energy will be considered. 09 - 27 February 2008 Solothurn, Switzerland IRWM 2008 Irish Recycling & Waste Management 2008 05 - 06 March 2008 Dublin, Ireland GLOBE 2008 GLOBE biennial events bring together participants from across the world to address issues that lie at the heart of sustainable development and environmental management, while generating new business opportunities 12 - 14 March 2008 Vancouver, BC, Canada International Automobile recycling Congress International Automobile recycling Congress 12 - 14 March 2008 Munich, Germany The 23rd International Conference on Solid Waste Technology and Management Researchers, educators, government officials, students, consultants, managers, community leaders, and others with expertise in solid waste are invited to submit papers for oral or poster presentation at the Conference. -To submit an abstract for oral or poster presentation, click here . -For a printable version of the Call For Papers that can be posted, click here . -For exhibiting information, click here 30 March - 02 April 2008 Philadelphia, PA, United States 4th Canadian Waste Resource Symposium The Atlantic Chapter of the Solid Waste Association of North America (SWANA) and the Nova Scotia Association of Waste Reduction Coordinators (NSAWRC) are jointly coordinating a comprehensive waste management conference. The overall conference theme of Navigating Towards 60% Diversion is to gather the waste reduction and landfill management specialists from across the globe to explore and share their best management practices. 13 - 16 April 2008 Halifax, Canada WasteEng08: 2nd International Conference on Engineering for Waste Valorisation We will be pleased to welcome you to to be held at the Convention Centre, University of Patras, Greece on June 3-5, 2008. 03 - 05 June 2008 Patras, Greece IFAT CHINA 2008 - 3rd International Trade Fair for Environmental Protection IFAT CHINA is the comprehensive exhibition on the Asian market for practice-oriented solutions in the key sectors for environmental protection and waste disposal including water supply, sewage, recycling, air pollution, environmental technology and environmentally sound energy sources 23 - 26 September 2008 Shanghai (Pudong), China, People's Rep. IFAT CHINA 3rd International Trade Fair for Environmental Protection IFAT CHINA is the comprehensive exhibition on the Asian market for practice-oriented solutions in the key sectors for environmental protection and waste disposal including water supply, sewage, recycling, air pollution, environmental technology and environmentally sound energy sources. ... 23 - 25 September 2008 Shanghai, China, People's Rep. World Conservation Congress The World Conservation Congress is the world's largest and most diverse conservation event. Held every four years, the Congress aims to improve how we manage our natural environment for human, social and economic development. The previous Congress, held in Bangkok in November 2004, brought together 5,000 people from all corners of the world, to discuss, debate and decide on environmental and development issues. 05 - 14 October 2008 Barcelona, Spain WASTECON 2008 Showcase of Solid Waste Professional, Environmental and Organizational leadership 21 - 23 October 2008 Tampa, Florida, United States |
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