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Day: 29 November 2006

Healthy ecosystems linked to healthy economy

Failing to protect vulnerable ecosystems can damage business, as well as the environment, according to a coalition of think tanks and NGOs.

Hazardous hand-me-downs under spotlight at waste conference

Well-meaning schemes that pass on the industrialised world's mobile phones and computers to the developing world could constitute toxic dumping by the back door, a meeting organised by the United Nations heard this week.

Chemical safety talks collapse

Hopes that those on either side of the great REACH debate to reach an accord before the European Parliament's second vote on the chemical safety regulations have been dashed, making it more likely that the legislation will have to go through the conciliation process - the results of which are hard to predict.

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