Large interest in life cycle management, energy, and markets - Successful launch for "EU-Recycling - the portal for waste, water, soil, air": Within a year the number of users has exceeded the mark of 350,000 accesses. The bilingual independent professional forum for Europe went online on October 14th, 2006. Ever since an overwhelming number of interested people have used the new information service for life cycle management and related topics in the world wide web to be updated on recent developments. By now, about 40,000 accesses to www.eu-recycling.