The global consumption dropped marginally from 13.78 million tonnes in Jan-July ’18 to 13.29 million tonnes during the similar seven-month period this year.

The ban, if implemented, is likely to affect nearly 10,000 plastic manufacturing units in the country. Also, jobs of approximately 400,000 people may be impacted.

The closure of Colorado-based Arrow Electronics Inc. has opened up immense opportunities for competitors including EPC.

It expects the results to remain materially lower when compared with the previous fiscal.

The draft of the new version of the certification standard will undergo two comment periods.

The Point Lisas steel plant was idled in March 2016, citing increased competition from low-costs imports originating from China and Turkey. The winding up of the plant operations had resulted in 644 job losses.

In third place was Japan, who exported 137,800t of steel products to India. The Japanese supplies to India skyrocketed by 43% from the year before.

The shipments of packaging papers fell drastically by 10.1% from August 2018, whereas the year-to-date shipments plunged by 5.3%.

Police are investigating whether ecomaine was overbilled by a staffing agency and whether Morin violated employee policies. No charges have been filed.

Located on 15 acres in Westbury, N.Y., Covanta Hempstead processes more than 1 million tons of waste each year and generates enough electricity to power 75,000 local homes and businesses.

The prices of Copper Radiator scrap witnessed no change from previous day’s levels.

Back in June, Indonesia returned a shipment of waste paper from Canada—imported via the U.S.—because it was contaminated with plastic, rubber and diapers.