by Owen Collins | Mar 27, 2019 | Around the Industry
DEFRA, the British Government Department for Environment, Food, and Agriculture, has warned the country’s waste export businesses to identify “alternative export routes” so as to avoid disruption caused by a No Deal Brexit. Although Parliament has indicated its...
by stefanie | Feb 25, 2019 | World Focus
Tariff trade wars seem to be spreading, with the latest being triggered by Donald Trump’s proposed duties on European cars, which has seen the EU threaten to retaliate with its own list of tariffs targeting major U.S. companies. As Reuters reports, following his...
by Owen Collins | Feb 7, 2019 | Around the Industry
Basel Action Network, the global environmental watchdog, has released the findings of its two-year study, showing illegal exports of WEEE from Europe to Africa and Asia. The study, taking place in 10 countries within the EU, followed 314 old computers, printers and...
by Owen Collins | Dec 20, 2018 | Around the Industry
Proposed amendments to the Basel Convention, the international treaty governing waste shipments, could hit the export market for mixed plastic waste. The 1992 Convention was signed up to by 53 nations, including the United Kingdom, and binds them to various rules on...
by stefanie | Oct 3, 2018 | Around the Industry
The company’s Managing Director, Stephen Armistead, has just returned from a two-week “international trade mission” to the UAE and Southeast Asia. Following Trade Copiers’ success in “winning several large contracts to collect and process used photocopiers from...
