Attempts to recycle E-waste and donations of old electronic devices are harming poor people's health and devastating the environment, writes Nele Goutier. Agbogbloshie, once an idyllic landscape of wetlands and small farms, is now the most toxic place in the world ...
… E-waste in Ghana: where death is the price of … agbog-fire.jpg Attempts to recycle E-wasteand donations of old electronic devices are … their final destination under the cloak of recycling. It is the most toxic place in the …
An anti-environment plot by Junckers' Commission would abandon agreed 'green' laws for clean air, waste reduction and recycling. But the leak of key documents to EurActiv has stimulated fierce opposition by Green MEPs and environment groups, while eleven EU countries have called on Junckers to hold to the green laws and speed up their implementation.
… Leaked: EU Commission plot to ditch wasteand air pollution laws EurActiv | 12th … laws for clean air, waste reduction andrecycling. But the leak of key documents to …
The EU faces a choice: a green, democratic future of clean prosperity and social justice? Or a dirty future of corporate domination with resurgent nuclear power, expanding fossil fuels, GMO agriculture and weak human and environmental protection? Junckers' Commission represents the latter. We must assert our own vision - or there will be little worth staying in for.
… on the brink - green future or industrial wasteland? Oliver Tickell | 12th December 2014 … to reduce waste to landfill and increase recycling would get bunged into the …
The European Commission has dropped measures to improve air quality and reduce waste from its work plan for 2015 - instead 'cutting red tape' and prioritizing 'jobs, growth, investment' at all costs.
… Tickell | 16th December 2014 News Pollution Waste EU Law Politics rubbish-havering-cut.jpg … has dropped measures to improve air quality and reduce waste from its work plan for 2015 - … by encouraging better design, re-use andrecycling. The Commission says that a "new, …