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Keith Nuthall
A EUROPEAN Union research project is about to be launched, which will create a new sophisticated model for reducing tyre noise. This ‘microscopic road traffic noise-modelling project,’ (ROTRANOMO), will consider the type of vehicle, tyre-road interaction, traffic management, driver behaviour, environmental planning and vehicle structure changes to develop a more effective noise calculation model.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
ENERGY consumption is still rising in the European Union, says a new European Environment Agency report, which blames transport growth for the problem; it says energy efficiency is improving only slowly and renewable energies need to expand by at least double the current rate if targets for boosting their market shares by 2010 are to be reached.…

BY JONATHAN THOMSON
GERMANY is set to become the first European country to transpose the controversial EU End-of-Life Vehicle Directive (ELV), while Britain appears to be dragging its feet over implementation.

All 15 Member States failed to meet the ELV deadline of April 21, 2002, for introducing laws on the disposal and recycling of vehicles.…

BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKA
THE INDIAN leather sector is receiving a major boost from its national government, both in terms of increased production support and export assistance. Industry players are hopeful of receiving IND Rupees 8 billion support under the country’s 10th (five year) Plan.…

Keith Nuthall
AS the European Union moves towards the mandatory application of International Accounting Standards for listed companies, the European Commission has proposed reforms to the existing directives that harmonise national accounting laws that will remain in place for other businesses.…

BY RICHARD HURST
AN OIL spill response team and contingency plan has been drawn up for Port Elizabeth, South Africa, by the National Ports Authority of South Africa, under its recently launched Corporate Environmental Policy, focusing on pollution prevention.…

BY DEIRDRE MASON
SOME 12 million tonnes of scrap metal – mainly steel – are expected to enter global markets this decade as redundant nuclear power stations are closed down worldwide; in Europe, there is likely to be a surge from 2003 onwards, via a closure programme for obsolete plants in the eastern European countries applying to join the EU.…

BY PHILIP FINE

THE US state of Maine recently passed a landmark bill that for the first

time forces automotive manufacturers to pay for the removal of mercury from

vehicles. Auto makers will now be responsible for removing and disposing of

mercury-added components, such as switches in boot and bonnet lights, before vehicles are crushed or shredded for recycling

Despite 10.5 million vehicles reaching the end of their useful lives each

year in the United States, the country has enacted no federal laws

concerning car recycling.…

BY PHILIP FINE

DESPITE 10.5 million vehicles reaching the end of their useful lives each year in the United States, the country has enacted no federal laws concerning car recycling. There have, however, been new binding rules emerging at state level.…

KEITH NUTHALL
WATER companies may be able to help the European Union and its Member States improve standards in the sector within developing countries, as part of an initiative to be launched by Brussels at the oncoming World Summit on Sustainable Development, in Johannesburg, this August and September.…