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BY MJ DESCHAMPS

A VOTE in the European Parliament last night (Tuesday 13-9) on the European Union’s (EU) planned raw material strategy has backed creating a more sustainable industry, with a strong focus on the potential of ‘urban mining’ – reclaiming raw materials from landfills, unused buildings and industrial plant in towns and cities.…

BY MJ DESCHAMPS

THE WORLD’s first lab-grown hamburger, is only a year away, according to Dutch scientist Mark Post, who is leading a research team towards developing beef grown from cattle stem cells.

"It is important right now to work on replacement of meat as we know it, because of the environmental and animal welfare issues that come with intense livestock keeping," said Post, a professor of vascular physiology at Maastricht University, in the Netherlands.…

BY MINDY RAN

ROTTERDAM is already Europe’s largest port and hence of importance for the import and export of waste materials from and to the European Union (EU) and this role is to strengthen.

For Rotterdam, the world’s fourth largest industrial port, behind China’s Shanghai and Ningbo, then Singapore, already utilises 26,000 acres, of which 12,500 acres are commercial sites and 13,500 acres water docks, rail lines, roads and pipeline zones.…

BY MONIKA HANLEY, LEE ADENDORFF, MARK ROWE, ALAN OSBORN, MINDY RAN, GERARD O’DWYER and MARTINA MARECKOVA

FOR an industry that generates energy, heat and maybe cooling, the European cogeneration sector has been operating on a decidedly low output in recent years.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL, MARK ROWE, GERARD O’DWYER, ALAN OSBORN and MJ DESCHAMPS

COGENERATION has been something of a test-bed for European Union (EU) energy development policy, and like any experiment, some things have worked and others have not. Also, because other energy priorities have become the subject of more effective legislation recently, cogeneration has been left behind to some extent in the EU’s push for a cleaner, greener, sustainable and more liberal energy sector.…

BY LEE ADENDORFF, MARK ROWE, ALAN OSBORN, KATHERINE DUNN, MARTINA MARECKOVA, GERARD O’DWYER and MINDY RAN

In November 2010, Dutch company Remeha released the world’s first, commercially available, micro-CHP combination-boiler for single-family households; the Remeha eVita. This energy-efficient micro-CHP unit, which works with a simple room thermostat, is the result of intensive research and development over the last five years.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A KEY European Union (EU) scientific committee is examining chemicals, including those used by the paint and coating industry, to determine their safety to the environment, ahead of a European Commission review. Brussels is scheduled this summer to propose to ministers and MEPs new and revised EU Environmental Quality Standards that limit how much certain chemicals can leach into surface waters, a key issue for coatings producers, especially those producing waterproof paints.…

BY MJ DESCHAMPS

AFTER a production line shutdown on June 8 and the need for three funding injections of Euro EUR61 million within a week, Saab Automobile’s recent cash crisis has the UK automotive industry on edge, according to the Retail Motor Industry (RMI).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE DUTCH Caribbean island of Curaçao will install access to Interpol’s global databases at Curaçao International Airport, after talks between its government and Interpol’s secretary general. Just north of Venezuela, Curaçao has been a transit point for international crime, especially the drugs trade, and Interpol said airport officials using its databases could henceforth instantly identify a fraudulent passport recorded on its stolen and lost travel documents database.…

BY MJ DESCHAMPS

IT might sound like science fiction, but airport managers really are exploring the use of robots to boost security at airports. Partly this is because for some potentially extreme events, it is better to put a robot in harm’s way, rather than humans.…