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EU exporting more waste, including hazardous waste
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Waste is increasingly moving across EU borders, for recovery or disposal. This is true for waste shipments between EU countries, and also transfers of waste outside the EU, according to a new assessment from the European Environment Agency (EEA).
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Uses of resources per capita in 2000 vs 2008/2009
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This figure shows the DMC per capita for the EU27 countries and selected other countries in 2000 and 2009 respectively 2008
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Recycling provides core resources
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Recycling can meet a large proportion of the economy’s resources demand, alleviating pressure on ecosystems to provide resources and assimilate waste. Recycling already meets substantial proportions of demand for some resource groups, notably paper and cardboard, and iron and steel.
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Recycling industry can boost the European economy
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Changing environmental governance in a changing world
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Climate change, growing consumption and urbanisation, spiralling resource use and new health risks are just some of the global pressures the world will face in the 21st Century. These are the findings from the Assessment of Global Megatrends, launched in November 2010 as part of the State and Outlook of the European Environment Report (SOER) and now published in a new book version.
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Globalisation, environment and you
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New EEA report highlights connectivity between global issues
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Using resources more efficiently: Green Week 2011
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Rethinking the way we use and manage resources is the subject of this year's Green Week, the European Commission's annual conference on environmental policy from 24-27 May, 2011.
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Resource use per person, by country, 2000 and 2007
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This graph shows the resource use per person, by country in 2000 and 2007.
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Use of resources per person by country, 2000 and 2007 (2005)
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This figure shows the DMC per capita for the EU27 countries and selected other countries in 2000 and 2007 or 2005, respectively.
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Selected raw materials: world use and rare earth elements, germanium and tantalum
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For the graph: 2006 and projected 2030 world use of neodymium, germanium and tantalum. The technologies responsible for the growth in use of these materials by 2030 are indicated in red. For the map: The bars show estimated reserves of rare earth elements, germanium and tantalum.
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Human use of terrestrial ecosystems
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Human appropriation of net primary production in percentage
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