CHINA BENEFITING MORE FROM EUROPEAN URBAN MINING THAN EUROPEANS, EUROMETAUX BOSS SAYS
October 1st, 2012
BY CARMEN PAUN IN BRUSSELS
Urban mining being carried out in the European Union (EU) today brings more benefits to Chinese traders than to European metal buyers, Guy Thiran the secretary general of the European association of non-ferrous metals industry Eurometaux has claimed.
Speaking in an exclusive interview with Metal Bulletin, he noted how EU institutions updated the directive on waste from electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) this summer to include an ambitious target of 20 kg of WEEE to be collected per capita starting 2019, up from four kg ...
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