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Published 21 March 2012 Share close Share page Copy link About sharing Monmouthshire and Cardiff councils are to be among the first authorities in the UK to send nappies for recycling. The councils collect disposable nappies and other absorbent hygiene products (AHP) waste from 2,500 households. In a six-month trial, the waste will be sent to the Knowaste AHP recycling plant in West Bromwich, West Midlands. About 200m disposable nappies are thrown away annually in Wales, according to Waste Awareness Wales, which promotes green issues. Knowaste Ltd, which sterilises the materials before recovering plastics and fibres for re-use, said the trial represented "true progress". Cardiff and Monmouthshire councils have been running separate AHP waste collections. The materials will now be sent to West Bromwich, where the plant - the first in the UK to treat AHPs - claims it can recycle …

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THE ATRIUM of the Willy Brandt House, the Berlin headquarters of Germany’s Social Democratic Party ( SPD ), erupted in cheers as an exit poll suggested that the party had achieved 26% of the vote in Germany’s national election, two percentage points ahead of their conservative rivals, the Christian Democrats ( CDU ) and their Bavarian ally, the CSU. Yet the joy was short-lived. The SPD troops had been watching an exit poll from ZDF , a broadcaster; but another, for ARD , showed a virtual dead heat, with both leading parties on 25% of the vote, and ZDF later updated its poll to show a very similar outcome. Early official projections also projected an extremely close race, albeit with a slight edge for the SPD (our graphic averages out the two polls). An unusually large number of postal ballots, and voting chaos in Berlin, where a city marathon blocked vehicles from delivering extra ballot papers to stations that had run out, added to the confusion. More clarity will …

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