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BY MARK ROWE

FOR the cosmetics and personal care product sector, the provenance of their ingredients can be important for marketing, and this is particularly important for bio-based oil and fats. These can be the base of such products and with growing consciousness about the environmental impact of their production and feedstock cultivation, the personal care sector – a key client of the oils and fats industry – is looking hard at who supplies their ingredients.…

BY JULIAN RYALL, and EUGENE VOROTNIKOV

A PROPOSED joint venture under discussion between Japan’s Toshiba Corporation and Russia’s Techsnabexport (TENEX) is expected to focus supplying low enriched uranium, not only to Japan but to third-party markets, Fuel Cycle Week has been told.…

By Alyshah Hasham, International News Services As negotiators at the recent United Nations climate change conference in Cancun wrapped up their work, one problem concentrating minds enough to secure a partial deal was the spread of disease on the coat-tails of global warming. Infectious diseases are spreading to regions where they were previously absent, driven by warmer temperatures and changing rainfall patterns. Europe and North America have been seeing an increase in cases of West Nile disease, which as the name suggests thrives in tropical and sub-tropical regions. Warmer temperatures are allowing the mosquitoes that carry the disease to roam further north. It’s a similar story for diseases such as dengue fever or tick-borne encephalitis (which causes brain inflammation).

 

The UK is by no means an exception to this trend. A recent study from the University of Plymouth concluded that the most dangerous climate-change linked threat to Britain’s environmental health could be vector borne diseases (such as Leishmaniasis – carried by the sand fly) which could spread to new areas because of warming temperatures.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Parliament has voted to tighten rules on disposing electronic waste, voting for tougher collection, recycling and re-use targets within a reformed European Union (EU) waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) directive.

MEPs have amended the proposals to include significantly tougher demands on EU member states regarding WEEE, setting them a tough task of collecting 85% of the e-waste they produce from 2016 (compared with 65% originally suggested by the European Commission).…

BY WANG FANGQING

IN maybe one of the most telling signs that China is opening up to the west, as much as it is exporting products there, that Chinese consumers are purchasing more olive oil and moreover, they are using it in a shift to a more cosmopolitan diet, including healthy Mediterranean-based recipes.…

BY MINI PANT ZACHARIAH and EMMA JACKSON

WHILE European paint manufacturers are breathing sigh of relief having passed the first major compliance deadline for the European Union’s (EU) chemical control system REACH, the same cannot be said for paint manufacturers in India.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE PROLIFERATION of charges being levied on the air industry worldwide has a false environmental goal, the UN’s air industry chief has argued – with governments using green policies as a convenient excuse to levy easy taxation from a key transport sector.…

BY PACIFICA GODDARD

PETROBRAS, Brazil’s national oil company, has been heavily investing in pipeline technology via a large-scale project to expand its pipeline network. This investment of time, energy and money has put Brazil on the cutting edge of global pipeline technology developments.…

BY Karryn Miller

An innovative foreign higher education park scheme in South Korea is set to proceed, even though the worldwide recession has caused some overseas universities to postpone plans to locate branches at the Songdo Global University Campus.

Full report on University World News site.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Union’s (EU) climate change committee has banned the generation of tradeable EU carbon credits through investments in emerging market countries to reduce production of two chemicals associated with plastics and polymers. These are trifluoromethane (HFC-23) when produced as a by-product of making chlorodifluoromethane (HCFC-22), and nitrous oxide (N2O) from adipic acid production.…