LOOMING KEY BASEL CONVENTION MEETING TO CHANGE GLOBAL RECYCLING RULES
November 1st, 2006
BY KEITH NUTHALL
A WORLDWIDE plan to promote the recycling of electronic waste could emerge from the oncoming and eighth meeting of the conference of the parties to the Basel Convention, in Kenya - its first session in Africa - from November 27 to December 1. A world forum on e-waste will be convened at the meeting, with industry, environmental groups and governments participating in discussions. The outcome, said a Basel secretariat note, could be "the adopting of a global strategy to address e-wastes, set in the broader context of end-of-life equipment, ...
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