Search Results for: America
10 results out of 1723 results found for 'America'.
BEEF INNOVATION
BY PHILIP FINE
A NEW "R & D Ranch" has introduced 1,100 new value-added beef products to the US market from 1999 to 2001, according to America’s National Cattlemen’s Beef Association, which set it up. Experts working for this body (formal name: New Product Development Team) help create new products that will drive demand for beef.…
MINING PROBE
BY MATTHEW BRACE
A NUCLEAR probe developed by Australia’s national science authority CSIRO could cut acid rain rates, claims its inventors. It can detect the sulphur content of coal underground, allowing miners to choose seams with low concentrations of this pollutant.…
NUCLEAR PROBE
BY MATTHEW BRACE, in Brisbane, Australia
A NUCLEAR probe developed in Australia for minerals exploration and mining has the potential to reduce rates of acid rain and other environmental pollution, its developers claim.
The device, designed by Australia’s chief science authority CSIRO, can detect the concentrations of sulphur in coal seams and mine waste rock underground, allowing miners to choose those with lower levels and leave the higher sulphur coals embedded.…
NAPPY RECYCLING
BY MONICA DOBIE
THE CITY of Santa Clarita, California, has launched America’s first nappy recycling programme which will pick up nappies from 500 families in special plastic bags. The recovered material will help make non-food packaging and products including wallpaper, oil filters, and shoe insoles.…
EU EMISSIONS TRADING GREENWATCH
BY ALAN OSBORN
IT’S now official. Following agreement this week by its environment ministers, the European Union (EU) is to set up a market to trade pollution permits for carbon dioxide (CO2), the main so-called greenhouse gas, starting in 2005.
The European Commission is delighted, business is pleased, and while not all environmentalists are overjoyed, the balance of opinion among them is clearly favourable.…
NUCLEAR PROBE
BY MATTHEW BRACE
A NUCLEAR probe developed by Australia’s national science authority, CSIRO, could be used in the promotion and marketing of low sulphur coal, claims its inventors. The quipment can measure the sulphur content of coal underground, allowing miners to choose seams with less sulphur.…
SHIP SECURITY CODE
BY KEITH NUTHALL, PHILIP FINE and ALAN OSBORN
THE NEW International Code for the Security of Ships and Port Facilities, agreed by an International Maritime Organisation (IMO) Diplomatic Conference, held in London, aims at reducing the industry’s exposure to terrorist attacks and resulting damage.…
CONGO REPORT
BY KEITH NUTHALL
IT is rare that an international organisation report on a scandal involving crime, corruption, war and environmental degradation names and shames high profile companies, but that is what is contained within the latest United Nations (UN) Security Council report on the Congo.…
AUSTRALIA - US TRADE DEAL
BY PHILIP FINE
AMERICA’S National Milk Producers Federation has come out against a
recently-announced free trade agreement between Australia and the United
States. Next February, the two governments will be entering trade negotiations, with the goal of completing a bilateral free trade pact by 2004.…
BULLET RESISTANT
BY PHILIP FINE
FOUR members of America’s Union of Needletrades, Industrial, and Textile Employees, including its president, Bruce Raynor, are being sued by a bullet-resistant vest manufacturer for allegedly defaming the quality of their protective textiles. Florida-based Point Blank says the four knowingly lied to media, police and retailers about subcontracting operations, claiming they negatively affecting vest quality.…