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                    [ArticleID] => 180238
                    [Title] => Change in EU law promotes recycling
                    [Summary] => Local ecological waste management advocates, especially those in the manufacturing and remanufacturing industry, welcome the latest news from the European electrical and electronic equipment industry – the amendment of the European Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) directive. 


Chris David, a European parliament member, clinched an agreement last Oct. 11 for a new wording for the amendment that is expected to become law within 30 months.
[DatePublished] => 2002-10-17 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Science and Environment [SectionUrl] => science-and-environment [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 153497 [Title] => US zero waste practice affirms local recycling [Summary] => The experience of several communities in Massachusetts which have benefited in the past three years from a grant program for "recycling-based community economic development" should further encourage the local recycling business for all sorts of used or discarded but valuable non-biodegradable waste resources.

These fast-expanding activities also provide very good reasons for discouraging incineration in view of the recent, widely questioned ruling of the Supreme Court that the ban against incineration under the Clean Air Act is not absolute.
[DatePublished] => 2002-03-11 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Science and Environment [SectionUrl] => science-and-environment [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 152313 [Title] => RP firm recycles inkjet cartridges [Summary] => Buyers in the international market find some relief in recycled or remanufactured inkjet cartridges that cost much less than the original.

Another trend favoring this option is the growing environmental consciousness. According to Tricia Judge of Recharger Magazine, the Europeans, in particular, are environment-conscious. For instance, Germany’s environmental legislation on take-back requirements "has created a greater understanding and demand for remanufactured and recycled products."
[DatePublished] => 2002-03-01 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Technology [SectionUrl] => technology [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 150256 [Title] => House ecology head supports quality recycling [Summary] => Rep. Augusto Baculio, of the second district of Misamis Oriental and chairman of the House committee on ecology, is pushing for quality recycling as a practice and as a business to help keep the environment safe and, at the same time, create profitable enterprises and provide jobs.

Baculio stressed the need for quality recycling "because this is the only way to prove that recycling is worth pursuing as a business and can be globally competitive."
[DatePublished] => 2002-02-11 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Science and Environment [SectionUrl] => science-and-environment [URL] => ) ) )
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