The best features in recycling

04 Feb 2012
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WEEE

The middle of the production story won’t change; we need chairs, tables and washing machines. But what about the beginning, what about the end? Can those bits of the lifecycle be made more efficient?

 

Despite targets being met, claims of unfair trading and stories of useless UK electronics polluting develpoing countries have marred the WEEE Directive's transposition into a producer responsibility s

 

Whatever happened to the washing machine that lasted a lifetime? Is it possible to (once again) design for disassembly-so that components can be reused or recycled? Libby Peake buckles up for a WEEE

 

In spite of being overlooked for many years by waste legislation in the UK, reuse seems to be experiencing somewhat of a boom of late. Henry Widdicombe and Libby Peake explore the relationship between

 

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