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Resource recovery, reuse, industrial symbiosis, circular procurement, waste systems, and material transitions.
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Public consultation on Montpellier’s AMETYST transformation runs from October 12 to January 12. The proposal combines waste treatment and local energy production, while environmental authorization and the claimed improvements remain subjects for assessment.
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Scotland’s draft household recycling code links cleaner material streams with more consistent services and limits on residual waste capacity.
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Japan has reopened support for businesses preparing emissions and resource-circulation calculations for recycling certification.
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Italy’s new technical annex specifies how obligated operators must record and transmit hazardous-waste vehicle routes.
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Japan has opened an equipment-support call for more reliable supplies of recycled materials, including important metal resources.
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NSW is consulting on mandatory stewardship for specified solar panels.
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Algeria wants to recover and reuse 60 percent of treated wastewater while expanding sanitation capacity by about 35 percent.
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Japan’s first review of its Fifth Fundamental Plan finds final disposal and circular-business growth broadly on track, while resource productivity, circular inputs, circular-use rates and public behavior need more work.
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Japan's Environment Ministry has selected a Koriyama demonstration that links carbon capture at a municipal waste facility with regional conversion and use, testing whether public infrastructure can anchor a local carbon-utilisation chain.
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Australian federal, state and territory ministers have agreed national principles for reusing surplus government information and communications technology devices.
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