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Author: Chris Slijkhuis (cs@eera-recyclers.com) - January 2022 During the IERC 2022 conference in Salzburg from 18 – 21 January, BSEF organized a workshop about WEEE plastics, consisting of a block with presentations and a block consisting of a discussion round table. Three topics were presented before a...

21 January 2022 On the 3rd of January 2022 the Nordic Council of Ministers issued a report on recyclable plastic components in electrical and electronic products with the title “Circular plastics in electrical and electronic equipment”[1]. The report presents an inaccurate portrayal of waste from electrical...

25 May 2021 Background On April 14 2021, the study ‘Assessing Indoor Dust Interference with Human Nuclear Hormone Receptors in Cell-Based Luciferase Reporter Assays[1]’ was published in Environmental Health Perspectives by Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.  Researchers collected dust samples from 46 rooms at...

BSEF notes the recent publication titled “Ecotoxicological characterization of possible degradation products of the polymeric flame retardant “Polymeric FR” using algae and Daphnia OECD tests” by C. Koch and B. Sures[1]. In an earlier study, Koch et al subjected Polymeric FR to a series of degradation...

The UK study, "Flame retardants in UK furniture increase smoke toxicity more than they reduce fire growth rate"[1], published on Chemosphere in December 2017, states that “flame retardant chemicals in furniture increase the toxicity of smoke when burning more than they reduce fire growth”. However several fire science experts have challenging...