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Steel Production in Luxembourg: Environmental Implications of a Continuing Industrial Activity
Visiting Differdange, a town in southern Luxembourg with a population of over 30,000, one wonders what it means to live beside an operating steelworks. Differdange is today Luxembourg’s third-largest city, and home to a giant ArcelorMittal steel production site in the center of the city. Steel making ranks amongst the most polluting industries…
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Extended Producer Responsibility in Europe: Is the Producer Really Responsible?
The term Extended Producer Responsibility, or EPR, sounds almost self-explanatory and promising. A producer places a product on the market. That product eventually becomes waste. Instead…
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Who Pays for Household Waste? A Look at Luxembourg, France and Germany
Waste management in Luxembourg is organized at the level of communes. Cost associated with collection and processing of waste is paid by residents and it largely…
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Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) – An Effective Waste Policy?
If it is the first time you hear the term, Extended Producer Responsibility, or EPR, read the next few paragraphs, otherwise you can scroll to the…
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One Market, Many Registers: EU Packaging EPR — Is There a Fix?
Under the previous EU packaging framework, based on the Packaging and Packaging Waste Directive, packaging EPR was already implemented through national systems. Whereas, the new Packaging…
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Forever Chemicals in Food Packaging: Why the EU Is Taking Restricting Measures?
A morning coffee in a paper cup, a takeaway box at lunch, or a grease-proof wrapper around a burger may look like that they are made…
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Chemicals in Your Favourite Cosmetics: Are They Safe?
Most cosmetics, beauty products and personal-care products contain many different types of chemicals, natural or synthetic; that is not a secret. Take a look at the…
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Environmental Sustainability in the Chemical Industry: Contradiction or Transformation?
The chemical industry has a sustainability problem—not because it has failed to improve, but because its improvements are being overtaken by its own success. Over the…
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Why Do Environmental Projects Keep Reinventing the Wheel?
Every year, governments, international organisations, development banks, environmental funds and implementing agencies finance thousands of projects addressing waste management, chemicals, water quality, wastewater, resource efficiency and…
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Basel Convention Plastic Waste Amendments: Why Implementation Fails
The Basel Convention is one of the most important international legal frameworks for controlling transboundary movements of hazardous wastes and other wastes. Its plastic waste amendments,…