For Love and Freedom on Clean Mother-Earth! _______________________________________________________________ !!!!! !!!!! !!!!! !!! !!!!! !!!!! !!!!! ! ! !!!!! !!!!! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !! ! ! ! ! !!! ! ! ! ! ! !!! !!! !!! ! ! ! !!!!! !!! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !! ! ! !!!!! !!!!! !!!!! !!!!! !!!!! ! !!!!! ! ! !!!!! !!!!! ! _______________________________________________________________ "ECODEFENSE!inform" environmental inform-bulletin * number 29 * _______________________________________________________________ ...............................................* OCTOBER 1994 * _______________________________________________________________ "ECODEFENSE!" Moskovsky prospekt 120-34 236006 Kaliningrad/Koenigsberg Russia telephone +7 0112 437286 E-mail: ecodefense@glas.apc.org _______________________________________________________________ CONTENTS ENVIRONMENTAL NEWS: CONFERENCES, PUBLICATIONS ETC. Waste *WASTE* NEWS FROM POLAND ECODEFENSE!inform present ENVIRONMENTAL DISCUSSION LIST HOSTED BY REC _______________________________________________________________ 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 --------------------------------------------------------------- *WASTE* NEWS FROM POLAND 26.09.1994 --------------------------------------------------------------- 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. 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". 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. 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... Prepared by Pawel Gluszynski Waste Prevention Association email: uugluszy@cyf-kr.edu.pl _______________________________________________________________ *************************************************************** ENVIRONMENTAL DISCUSSION LIST HOSTED BY REC This is to inform you about our newly created Internet discussion list ENVCEE-L@REC.HU (Environmental Issues in Central and Eastern Europe). 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