MEPS SET TO CALL FOR URBAN MINING OF RAW MATERIALS IN EUROPE
September 1st, 2011
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Parliament is set to vote on Tuesday on a comprehensive strategy to enhance the European Union's (EU) raw materials strategy. MEPs will be asked to back a policy of aggressively promoting so-called 'urban mining' the proactive collection of raw materials from unused buildings and industrial plant in towns and cities.
They will debate on Monday in a plenary session in Strasbourg on whether to support this strategy and a comprehensive related position paper proposed by German Green MEP Reinhard Bütikofer: 'An Effective Raw Materials ...
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