Accounting for waste: Waste reporting in Australian metals and mining companies

IFRS Developments for Mining & Metals: Accounting for waste removal costs

The IFRS Interpretations Committee (the Committee) has finally issued its Interpretation on accounting for waste removal costs IFRIC Interpretation 20 – Stripping Costs in the Production Phase of a Surface Mine (the Interpretation). This Interpretation is effective for annual periods beginning on or after 1 January 2013. Entities will be required to apply its requirements for production phase s...

Eliminating Waste in Companies

The global economic recession has caused a reduced volume of orders, market saturation and low price competition pressure, so it is the right time for reorganization and optimization of companies and not for dismissal of employees. By dismissing employees the company loses good staff, employees accustomed to the work in their company, the moral of workers decreases and the reputation of the com...

Heavy Metals in Waste

Waste Management in Mining Industry

This paper with the title Waste Management in Mining Industry mainly deals with the large amount of waste generated by the mining industry in the process of extraction of minerals which is a great threat to the environment leading to air pollution soil pollution and many other hazardous effects to the environment as well as human lives . This paper broadly discusses about the different type of ...

Metals Content in Printed Circuit Board Waste

This paper an presents analysis of metals in waste of printed circuit boards (PCB) covering types of PCB, segregated from PC computers, mobile phones, and mixed. The presented data identifies metals and other substances found in PCB waste based on elemental and technical analysis of PCBs. PCB categorization based on gold concentration is presented, resulting in two groups: electric and electron...