The Worldwatch Institute has produced a new report on metal production.
In 2008, more than 1.4 billion tons of metals were produced globally-double the quantity of the late 1970s and more than seven times as …
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World Metal Production Surges
Toxic metals registry to be globally repeated
What about a global registry which aims at minimising the unacceptably high levels of cadmium, lead and mercury used in computers? It sounds like a good idea – and one which couldn’t come too soon.…
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A world free of mercury? Not yet – but hope rises
It may not represent complete victory, but the unanimous decision by more than 140 states to voluntarily “control” mercury emissions to the environment is a welcome and major step to ridding the planet of one …
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