Waste in Southern Europe

  • Cleaning up the E-Waste Recycling Industry

    EGYPT, 2016/01/08 Upon opening a shipment of computers it had received through the International Children's Fund (ICF), a Ghanaian school discovered the equipment sent was 15 years old. Most of the computers needed replacement parts, parts that weren't available anymore. In the end, the school managed to get only a single computer working again. While the ICF had good intentions, a fake charity had handed it a container of what was meant to be workable secondhand material that was actually closer to its end of life--that is, entirely waste. That unfortunate Ghanaian school is only one victim in a long chain of corruption, theft and organized crime that stretches from Brussels to Cape Town.
  • The waste and insurance sectors C“targets” for Chinese investment in Portugal,

    CHINA, 2013/11/17 The waste and insurance sectors are expected to be the next “targets” for Chinese investment in Portugal, a country that is calling on investors from China to look into the privatisations underway. Chinese group Beijing Enterprises Water is, according to the Portuguese press, studying the privatisation of Portuguese company Empresa Geral de Fomento (EGF), a subsidiary of water group Águas de Portugal for the solid urban waste sector. According to Diário Económico the Chinese company is planning to expand its increase potential outside the Chinese market. For the water company from the Chinese capital, which is the leader of the water treatment sector in China, this transaction will boost its presence in the Portuguese market next it acquired Veolia Water Portugal, for 95 million euros in March from French group Veolia.