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BY TRICIA OBEN

MATERIALS buyers from large emerging market BRIC countries (Brazil, Russia, India and China) have been dominating poorer developing world countries for years now, with Indian and Chinese buyers especially, cornering the car battery recycling market in west Africa’s Cameroon, for instance.…

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

Since the 1960s, E.ON Örebro has been Sweden’s most technology-driven combined heat and power producer. Owned by E.ON Värme Sverige AB, the Swedish subsidiary of Germany’s electricity and gas energy giant E.ON…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Bank for Reconstruction & Development (EBRD) will push ahead with its plan to lend Euro EUR80 million to help Serbia’s main electricity company expand its coal production, despite objections from environmentalists.

In fact said EBRD spokesman Sergiy Grytsenko, by helping Elektroprivreda Srbije (EPS) use more modern coal processing technology at its Kolubara mining basin, the loan would reduce the amount of carbon polluting the atmosphere through EPS’ coal-fired power stations, which consume the country’s extensive lignite deposits.…

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 KEITH NUTHALL, DAVE YIN and WANG FANGQING

A GOOD deal of excitement has been created by the announcement this week in the UK academic journal Nature Geoscience that significant deposits of rare earths have been found in the Pacific Ocean floor.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Bank for Reconstruction & Development is considering lending up to Euro EUR68 million to a leading Serbian beauty products producer Beohemija. The money would help it expand and restructure its finances. The bank said new investment in manufacturing technology would "improve productivity, energy efficiency and environmental safety", creating "a showcase to others in the market on how to be financially successful and energy efficient."…

BY MARK ROWE

CO-GENERATION (or combined-heat and power – CHP) plants operate using a variety of technologies: gas turbines, fuel cells, Stirling engines, gas or diesel engines and combined cycle gas turbines. According to the Joint Research Centre (JRC) – the European Union’s (EU) scientific and technical research body – natural gas is currently the preferred fuel across Europe for co-gen, with combined cycle gas turbine (CCGT) and gas turbine plants expected to become the predominant future technology for large-scale units.…

BY DAVE YIN

A CALIFORNIA-based environmental group is suing 26 cosmetic companies claiming their products labelled as organic contain in reality, "few or, in some cases, no organic ingredients". The Center for Environmental Health’s (CEH) filed a lawsuit last month citing a state law which requires all organic products to contain at least 70% natural ingredients grown without pesticides or chemicals.…

BY WANG FANGQING, MINI PANT ZACHARIAH, PACIFICA GODDARD and MARK ROWE

Richard Hall is the chairman and founder of Zenith International, Europe’s leading food and drinks consultancy with more than 1,000 clients across more than 50 countries. Hall interacts with some of the biggest drinks manufacturers in the world on a daily basis, and his wealth of knowledge and expertise has led him to make predictions in six different areas, in helping just-drinks to forecast the future of the beverages industry:

AGEING

"In 20 years’ time, there will be a much larger number of older people, who will be seeking solutions and functionality in the products they want to consume, in preference to doses of medicines or supplements that they don’t want to consume.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A KEY European Union (EU) scientific committee is examining chemicals, including those used by the textile finishing sector, to determine their environmental safety. The European Commission is scheduled this summer to propose new and revised EU Environmental Quality Standards limiting how certain chemicals can leach into surface waters.…