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BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has taken another step towards focusing the European Union’s (EU) support for biofuel production on those fuels that create at least 35% less carbon emissions than fossil fuels. A key part of this process is using certification schemes to ensure that biofuels are green, taking account of the environmental impact of their production as well as use, and the Commission has now recognised seven of these systems.…

BY MARK GODFREY

A NEW breed of modern recycling operations are helping China improve its domestic supply of recyclables. Among them is Tianjin Dowa Green Angel Summit Recycling Co., Ltd, a new Chinese Yuan Renminbi CNY100 million (USD15.52 million) joint venture between Japanese metal recycling equipment maker Dowa Eco-System, local waste collector Tianjin Green-Angel Renewable Resource Recovery Co.,…

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 MARK GODFREY

AS CHINA continues to consolidate its position as the world’s top exporter and leading market for electronics and cars, demand is also growing for cutting-edge technology to coat to these products: one significant example being nanotechnology-based coatings, which offer evolutionary functionalities such as increased scratch-resistance and thermal insulation.…

BY WANG FANGQING

NOW Four months after the earthquake and tsunami that hit Northeast Japan this past March, Japanese companies have now finally begun the enormous task of debris clean-up, recycling salvageable metals, beginning with one of the worst-hit areas: Kamaishi City, in Iwate prefecture.…

BY JULIAN RYALL

MOUNTAINS of waste are growing atop the paddy fields on the outskirts of the city of Sendai, Japan, which was devastated by this year’s earthquake and tsunami. From the elevated highway that runs north from the capital of Miyagi Prefecture, a steady stream of trucks can be seen depositing loads of twisted metal; flat-beds piled with home appliances that are so mangled they are almost unrecognisable, to be dumped along with the wrecked cars already stacked four-high on the former farmland.…

BY MARK ROWE

SUPERFICIALLY at least, it sounds like an unlikely scenario: Russia, the 21st century’s face of fossil fuel sources, now wants to go green. The Russian Energy Agency last spring signed an agreement committing itself to help the country improve energy efficiency in industry and housing; develop a renewable energy market; and – the end goal – reduce greenhouse gas emissions.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

LITTLE more excites the international auto industry more than the search for an alternative to fossil fuels, and an American company is now looking seriously into the idea of using a heavy element thorium to generate locomotive power.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A EUROPEAN Union (EU)-funded research project will this month start developing a prototype polymer-zinc car battery, significantly lighter, safer and more environment-friendly than existing batteries. Their lead acid, lithium and nickel bases have waste disposal, weight and chemical stability problems.…

BY MARK ROWE

IN the global push to make transport greener, the aviation industry is just beginning to take a serious look at how to ease the sector into using less fossil fuel. Scandinavian Airlines (SAS), like many other airlines, is currently looking into projects that scrutinise kerosene biofuel blends in the quest to make transportation more environmentally friendly.…