Do we need yet another European law to address the issue of electronic scrap?

They were not particularly ambitious about the electronic scrap regulation.

Obviously everyone felt uncomfortable when the package was found to contain electronic scrap.

In about ten years' time, we expect this electronic scrap heap to have doubled in size.

Electronic scrap accounts for 70 percent of the overall toxic waste currently found in landfills.

And we cannot allow our national security to depend on electronic scrap salvaged from trash heaps by counterfeiters in China.

Beneficiary communities are often given the responsibility to dispose of the toxic electronic scrap when an equipment breaks down beyond repair.

The EU has made a particularly good job of minimising waste not only from packaging, electronic scrap and batteries, but also from used cars.

Fungi can be grown on many different substrates, such as electronic scrap, catalytic converters, and fly ash from municipal waste incineration.

The smelter, which produces sulphuric acid as a by-product of its operations, also produces metals from electronic scrap and other secondary materials.

Electronic scrap is spirited around in Europe and left in fields, in meadows, in woodland, in ditches or wherever.

All electronic scrap components, such as CRTs, may contain contaminants such as lead, cadmium, beryllium, or brominated flame retardants.

They also operate several subsidiaries, including Cash for Diamonds USA, Cash For Dental Scrap, Gizmogul, and Cash for Electronic Scrap.

"According to the Western press and both Chinese university and NGO researchers, conditions in these workers' rural villages are so poor that even the primitive electronic scrap industry in Guiyu offers an improvement in income".

Mr President, Commissioner, as rapporteur I regret the fact that a relatively interesting report on the issue of how electronic scrap is to be recycled in Europe in future is being debated in the middle of the night.