BIR: Global scrap market to stay firm, uncertainties persist
02 June 2021
Metal Expert
This year, the global scrap market has faced an unprecedented situation: a supercycle in the commodities market, switching of China from a potential scrap exporter to an active scrap importer, ...
Metal Expert-BIR ConventionMay21.pdf
Shipping's container chaos to continue, DP World exec says
02 June 2021
Fastmarkets
The chaos being experienced in the global container shipping industry is expected to continue for some time with a shortage of an estimated four million boxes creating havoc with congestion, routes ...
Proposed regulations to inhibit international plastic scrap trading could be gaining momentum. Presenters and panelists at several Bureau of International Recycling (BIR) 2021 World Recycling ...
Global container shortfall at 4mn, tightness to remain
02 June 2021
Argus Media
London, 2 June (Argus) — The global container industry has a 4mn shortfall because of higher-than-expected demand andproduction halts throughout Covid-19, and conditions are unlikely to change this ...
Global container shortfall
BIR World Recycling Convention focused on robust commodity markets in a challenging global environment
02 June 2021
Recycling Product News
The 145th Bureau of International Recycling (BIR) World Recycling Convention & Exhibition took place online this week from May 31st to June 2, providing a platform for the international recycling ...
BIR : Une 3ème journée clé pour les matières recyclées
02 June 2021
MPE -Média
PARIS/BRUXELLES/VISIO (MPE-Média) – La 3ème et dernière journée de la Convention virtuelle 2021 du Bureau international du recyclage (BIR) réunissait ce 2 juin les dirigeants des divisions et ...
BIR TEME QUE LA REVISIÓN DE LAS NORMAS SOBRE TRASLADOS DE RESIDUOS DE LA UE LIMITE LAS EXPORTACIONES DE MATERIALES PARA EL RECICLAJE
02 June 2021
Residuos Profesional
La organización mundial del reciclaje asegura que Europa genera excedentes de materiales secundarios de calidad que su mercado interno no puede absorber, mientras muchos países en desarrollo ...
Recycling fundamental to preserving our existence on Earth
02 June 2021
Recycling Magazine
With the title “Cosmic sustainability: the Universe is a Recycler”, BIR’s latest Keynote Address was delivered by Lucy Hawking - journalist, novelist, educator and, perhaps most famously, daughter ...
BIR: EU regulation revision could threaten scrap exports
02 June 2021
Kallanish
The European Commission is considering changes to EU waste shipment regulations that could prove to be of “tremendous importance” and potentially highly damaging to ferrous scrap export flows. So ...
EU regulation revision could threaten scrap exports
BIR: Container issues unlikely to ease in 2021
02 June 2021
Kallanish
The Bureau of International Recycling (BIR) expects current issues with container shipments to remain until the end of 2021. The market needs to prepare for more challenging times, as container ...
Container issues unlikely to ease in 2021
Global container capacity ‘12% below demand’
01 June 2021
Recycling International
The worldwide shortage of shipping containers is putting severe strain on global trade and recyclers have been warned they could lose out in competition for the limited capacity available. The ...
EU likely to propose partial ferrous scrap export ban
01 June 2021
Argus Media
London, 1 June (Argus) — The European Commission is expected to propose an adjustment to EU waste shipment regulations that includes partially banning ferrous scrap exports to countries that do not ...