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"ECODEFENSE!inform" environmental inform-bulletin * number 29 *
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...............................................* OCTOBER 1994 *
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"ECODEFENSE!"
Moskovsky prospekt 120-34
236006 Kaliningrad/Koenigsberg
Russia
telephone +7 0112 437286
E-mail: ecodefense@glas.apc.org
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CONTENTS
ENVIRONMENTAL NEWS:
CONFERENCES, PUBLICATIONS ETC.
Waste
*WASTE* NEWS FROM POLAND
ECODEFENSE!inform present
ENVIRONMENTAL DISCUSSION LIST HOSTED BY REC
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Toxic German pesticides story
BBC Summary of World Broadcasts September 28, 1994
BALKANS; ALBANIA; Toxic German pesticides dumped near Shkoder
may be removed by November SOURCE: Radio Tirana 26 Sep 94 Text
of report, The evacuation operation of the expired pesticides
which came
Green and Communists
German Greens reject working with communists By Katerina
Syrimi BONN, Oct 4 (Reuter) Germany's ecologist Greens on
Monday ruled out joining a coalition government which would
include reform communists after a general election this month.
Two airplanes with safety equipment took off from Germany
EU sends safety equipment to Russian nuclear power plant
EUROPEAN COMMISSION PRESS RELEASE: IP/94/917 DOCUMENT DATE:
OCTOBER 5, 1994 EU SENDS SAFETY EQUIPMENT TO RUSSIAN NUCLEAR
POWER PLANT, Two transport aeroplanes took off today from
Hannover airport
Final storage of nuclear fuel
BBC Summary of World Broadcasts October 6, 1994 Power
company prepares to expand final storage of nuclear fuel
SOURCE: YLE radio, Helsinki 3 Oct 94 Excerpts from report
[Presenter] Imatran Voima [IVO, power company] is preparing to
expand its nuclear
Denmark
Published "Sustainable Energy News" No.6, 1994 Newsletter
for the International Network for Sustainable Energy - INforSE
CONTENTS: Regional INforSE News - Europe, Africa and Asia; The
World Summit and INforSE campaign; Biofuel for Transportation:
Adapt the Motors to the Fuel; Brazilian Etanol Program; Small
Hydropower in Germany; etc. (in English) Editorial contact:
OVE, Skovvangsvej 191, DK-8200 Aarhus N, e-mail:ove@pns.apc.org
Lithuania/Vilnius
Published ECOLOGIA newsletter No.29 in Russian,
Lithuanian and English. CONTENTS: NGOs and Western Consult
Companies; Environmental Policy with Western Consultants; etc.
Editorial contact: Gedre Donauskaite, Zheminos 43-57, 2022
Vilnius, Lithuania; e-mail: root@jt.aiva.lt
Germany/Berlin October 21-26
Preparatoty meeting of the Climate Campaign for all
interested people. Contact: Climate Office Berlin,
Jagowstrasse 12, 10555 Berlin; fax +49 3039 27997
Germany/Dusseldorf October 28-30
Seminar for the European Round Table of Industrialists
(ERT) as preparation for the EU Summit this December in
Essen/Germany. Contact: A SEED Europe office, Postbus 92066,
1090 AB Amsterdam; e-mail: aseedeur@antenna.nl
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*WASTE* NEWS FROM POLAND 26.09.1994
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VICTORY! Since 1992, NGOs have been fighting with a join
project of Italian (EMIT, Acqua) and Polish companies for the
construction of 56,000 tpa MSW incinerator in Warsaw. The
arguments they have used against the project include: the
Warsaw District Council decided on the location of the
incinerator before submitting an environmental impact
assessment (EIA) to the Warsaw Provincial Environmental
Department; the location of the incinerator is illegal, as
according to Polish law it is forbidden to construct in a city
any facility that would emit over 20,000 tpa of gases; there
is lack of complete information about the emission of heavy
metals from the proposed incinerator. In sum, the project has
violated 9 national and local regulations. Three NGOs: Waste
Prevention Association, Green Federation and Social Ecological
Institute have submitted the case to the Warsaw District
Council Court. Recently, on September 16, the Court has
recognised the arguments of NGOs and has decided that process
of location of the incinerator, and the EIA must be repeated,
must start from the very beginning. This precedential and
important decision will be another tool for the NGOs to stop
the project ultimately, unless it collapses of financial and
administrative reasons. <WPA>
CIBA-GEIGY. In July, Ciba-Geigy has opened the largest store
of pesticides in Poland. The store "Ciba Magazyn Agro" is
located in Warsaw, has 30,000 cubic meters cubature, has two
railways, is fully computerised, and protected (?) against
fire and outflow. It is expected that over 4,000 tonnes of
pesticides will be distributed annually from the store to
different countries of Central and Eastern Europe and
Commonwealth of Independent States. Aleksander Wyrwinski,
member of the company's board, said that "Ciba- Geigy will
extend the store. It will be two times larger in the future".
<Rzeczpospolita, 1.07.1994>
DRAWERS MADE OF PVC. A French company RHOVYL, based in
Tronville-en- Barrois, wants to sell in Poland clothes --
undies and sport dresses -- made of PVC fibre. Alan Regad,
president of RHOVYL, said that the company has come into
contact with a few Polish firms which have just prepared
examples of fashions to be produced for the Polish market.
POLO (Kalisz) wants to produce underclothes, also for
children; ZAKLADY WOLA (Zdunska Wola) would produce tights,
and WELDORO (Bielsko-Biala) "various assortment of clothes".
RHOVYL hasn't applied for the certificate (attest) to State
Institute of Hygiene (PZH), which is a legal requirement in
case where a new product is introduced on the market, and may
have the impact on the human health. RHOVYL has been producing
PVC fibre since 50's. In 50-60's it produced 13,000 tonnes of
fibre, but at the present production dropped to 4,000 tonnes,
although the capacity is 9,000 tonnes. At the past it employed
2340 workers, now 100 -- "because of the automation of the
production process". 25 per cent of the production is exported
to other countries of Western Europe and Japan. Annual trade
turnover is estimated at 120 million FF. Untill 1992, RHOVYL
belonged to RHONE PULENC. <Rzeczpospolita, 7.09.1994>
RECYCLING OF PET BOTTLES. Despite of proposed ban for import
and the construction of new production lines of PET
(polyethylene terephthalate) packaging, still appear offers of
set up the system of its collecting and recycling. The first
offer appeared a few months ago. The National Found for the
Environmental Protection wanted to establish a join venture
with Wellman International Ltd, one of the world's largest
plastic recycling company. They wanted to construct in the
central Poland a plant for melting of 5,000 tpa of PET
bottles. There the bottles would be cleaned, melted into bales
and then transported to the Netherlands or to Ireland to the
Wellman plant for recycling into fibre. Probably, this project
has fallen because of the problem to organise a central system
of collecting PET packaging and to gather enough material for
reprocessing. The second offer comes from a Polish company.
Chemical Plant "Blachownia" in Kedzierzyn Kozle announced
recently that it has developed a method of recycling the PET
bottles. In order to make the venture profitable "Blachownia"
needs 20,000 tonnes of PET annually. This amount matches the
yearly production of all Polish enterprises...
<WPA; Telegazeta, 26.09.1994>
Prepared by Pawel Gluszynski
Waste Prevention Association
email: uugluszy@cyf-kr.edu.pl
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