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Panasonic to recycle e-waste in India (Livemint)
Illegal E-Waste Exports Leads to Penalties from EPA (Waste Management World)
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Arrivée imminente du chargeur universel ! (Greenzer.fr)
Gare à la pollution des océans, nous dit l'ONU (Futura Sciences)
"Hay residuos peligrosos sin destino" (Diario El País)
Environmental Enforcement: EPA Orders Disposal of Seized E-Waste Bound for Vietnam (Environmental Leader)
Import of e-waste should be banned, says IT expert (Times of India)
Environmentalists seek to keep e-waste in North America (AHN | All Headline News)
18 tonnes of sludge at fuel plant (BBC News)
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Mexico, U.S. and Canada to regulate discarded electronics trade (Fox News)
PCB-contaminated soil removal finished at former Stimson millsite (The Missoulian)
Toxic waste to be exported from Armenia (Information-Analytic Agency NEWS.am)
EU commissioner Potocnik: We have to think globally about ship recycling (Recycling News)
Roundup; PDAs, Cesar water plan, Basel Convention, recycling ... (Water World)
SAICM workshop on toxics in electronics to be held in March 8Chemical Watch)
What Should You Do With Your Old Television or Cell Phone? (San Francisco Chronicle)
TV manufacturers committed to Commonwealth's e-waste recycling scheme (Government News)
Waste management firms have a lot of catching up to do (GulfNews)
NGOs call on EU commissioner to fix broken ship breaking legislation (SteelGuru)
European Parliament Tightens Rules on Electronic Scrap Recycling (Recycling Today)
Environmentalists Urge Turkey to Ban Ship Dismantling due to
Hungary accused over red sludge leak (Irish Times)
Janez Poto?nik European Commissioner for Environment A more efficient clean up ... (IEWY News)
Un herbicide de Syngenta dans la mire du Burkina Faso (swissinfo.ch)
EU to introduce tough new laws on electronic waste (Computing)
Illegal e-waste dumping rife: industry (Montreal Gazette)
'New risk' at Hungary sludge site (BBC News)
Norway: Decrease in manufacturing waste (Recycling News)
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