ELECTRONICS MANUFACTURERS AND ENVIRONMENTALSTS LODGE WEEE PROTEST AGAINST BRITAIN
March 1st, 2007
BY KEITH NUTHALLBRITAIN and 10 other European Union (EU) member states have been attacked by an unusual alliance of electrical goods manufacturers and environmentalists for failing to properly implement the EU WEEE directive on waste from electrical and electronic equipment. Sony, Nokia and Hewlett Packard have joined Greenpeace, the Friends of the Earth and others, calling for European Commission legal action against the UK, Bulgaria, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Greece, Latvia, Portugal, Slovenia and Spain for not implementing a key clause encouraging ...
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