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Metals: supremely recyclable

Re-use and recycling can help minimise fresh raw material inputs, waste outputs, and the manufacturing energy demands for most materials. Researchers at CSIRO Minerals, Mr Terry Norgate and Dr John Rankin, say that metals are proving prime candidates for reprocessing.



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ECOS Magazine 2005 (Issue 125)

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Ecos Issue 125 - Table of Contents

Metals: supremely recyclable

Glacial retreat heralds changing Antarctic climate

Review – Leaders of sustainable solutions

Review – The Land of Flowers

Editorial – Old know-how used in new ways

Events calendar

Sponging off the natural north

A fish farming salinity solution

Review – Alternative leadership: the Rhineland philosophy

A burgeoning role for Aboriginal knowledge

The green frontier

Closing the loop?

Garbage miners mean business

Landmark guidelines for Indigenous involvement in NRM

A new vision for regional management

Misima Mines Ltd responds to island gold mine concerns

Blueprint planning for national coastal development

Threatened whale sharks draw calls to end exploitation

Cultural burning revives a Kakadu wetland

Teamwork for a survey of sea country

Woodshed to power Britain

Tasmania's tourism future brightens

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