BIR convention opens with discussion of regulations and protectionism surrounding global recycling
01 June 2021
Recycling Product News
Yesterday's live opening session of the BIR World Recycling Convention (online) featured their renowned groundbreaking show "The Challenge" in a special convention edition with its unique format ...
Recyclage/BIR : La reprise des prix des ferrailles
01 June 2021
MPE -Média
PARIS/BRUXELLES (MPE-Média) – Présidée par Greg Schnitzer, de Sims Metal, la division métaux ferreux du Bureau international du recyclage proposait ce 1er juin ses données et statistiques sur l’état ...
BIR’s 2020 Annual Report: Quickly Adapting to the Challenge of New Realities
01 June 2021
Global Recycling
The Bureau of International Recycling (BIR) today releases its 2020 Annual Report that highlights key recycling industry developments and data as well as the organization’s activities on behalf of ...
BIR 2021: Proposed European scrap export restrictions to be revealed; industry to step up lobbying
01 June 2021
Fastmarkets
The first proposed draft on scrap shipment regulation revisions in Europe will come out in a few weeks, with more restrictions on the free flow of secondary metal raw materials expected, panelists ...
Challenges and opportunities for recyclers in “the interesting times ahead of us”
01 June 2021
Recycling Magazine
Electronics recycling was in “a very complex environment” in which there was “an absolute need for a dramatic change”, commented Helmut Kolba of Germany-based Remondis Electrorecycling GmbH in ...
BIR: Revision of EU shipment regulations could pose serious export threat
01 June 2021
Recycling Magazine
The European Commission is considering changes to EU waste shipment regulations that could prove to be of “tremendous importance” and potentially highly damaging to export flows of many recycling ...
El informe anual 2020 de BIR pone de manifiesto la capacidad de adaptación de la industria del reciclaje
01 June 2021
Retema
La Bureau of International Recycling (BIR) publica su Informe Anual donde destaca los desarrollos y datos clave de la industria del reciclaje en 2020 La Bureau of International Recycling (BIR) ...
PARIS (MPE-Média) – Le Bureau international du recyclage propose de ce lundi 31 mai au mercredi 2 juin une convention de printemps en ligne, ouverte ce jour par le président du BIR Tom Bird et le ...
Tom Bird is halfway through his anticipated four-year term as president of theTom Bird is halfway through his anticipated four-year term as president of theBureau of International Recycling. The ...
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Trillions of pounds of trash: New technology tries to solve an old garbage problem
29 May 2021
CNBC.com
Humans generate a remarkable amount of garbage: over 2 billion tonnes per year, according to the World Bank, or approximately 4.5 trillion pounds annually. And that figure is going to grow. Global ...
Global Recycling Day is being marked across the country today (18 March), with dozens of companies and organisations launching schemes. Now in its fourth year, the initiative is spearheaded by the ...
Most associate Somalia in East Africa more with drought and tribal wars than award-winning recycling practices but it is home to a ‘Recycling Hero’. Somalia may be bottom of the global Environmental ...