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Thursday, September 27th, 2007This past April São Paulo State’s environment agency, CETESB, hosted Brazil’s National Roundtable on Sustainable Sustainable Consumption and Production. At the end of June the top body of the five-nation MERCOSUR (Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay, Venezuela), the Common Market Council (CMC), adopted a binding Decision calling for an action plan, program and common policy on […]
Printer Cartridges for Movie Tickets
Sunday, July 29th, 2007Colombia's Environment Ministry (MAVDT) recently heralded a new program launched in that country by Lexmark International, the global company that makes printers and toner and ink cartridges, to give people a free ticket for any movie showing at the Cine Colombia chain in exchange for turning in a used printer cartridge. Lexmark also extended to […]
Colombia Imposes Post-Consumer Producer Responsibility on Pesticide Packaging
Tuesday, April 24th, 2007Synopsis in English: Colombian Environment Minister Jaime Lozano celebrated Earth Day by adopting a regulation that imposes a post-consumer producer responsibility regime on that country’s pesticide packaging. Manufacturers and importers of pesticides — not just those intended for agricultural use, but also those used in industry, in homes, and for public health and veterinary uses […]
Colombia Gets Cell Phone Battery Agreement
Friday, April 20th, 2007According to a Colombia daily, El Tiempo, the Ministry of Environment, Housing and Territorial Development (MAVDT) has signed an agreement (“convenio”) with the cellular telephone industry to collect and export spent cell phone batteries. The agreement was signed by the major providers of cell phone service in the country, including Avantel, the industry associations for […]