BIR Convention: Stainless takes on stubborn challenges
LME executive says rebuilding trust is exchange’s nickel market priority for the near future. Buying and selling stainless steel scrap has required extra patience in the first half of this year, ...
BIR Convention: Tire and rubber a 'dynamic' segment of recycling industry
Speakers at the Bureau of International Recycling Tyres & Rubber Committee discuss technology advances and recycled-content demand. Industry experts at the most recent Bureau of International ...
Expertos estiman que se necesitarán invertir 56.000 millones de dólares en infraestructuras de reciclaje de plásticos en los próximos cinco años
Ante el gran aumento de la demanda de plásticos reciclados, el Comité de Plásticos del Bureau of International Recycling señala la falta de materia prima como el gran desafío del sector y la ...
BIR and Euric: Exports to non-OECD countries will be costly, complex under proposed rules
Businesses trading internationally in secondary raw materials are facing several potentially challenging regulatory changes in the coming years. At the Bureau of International Recycling's convention ...
BIR Convention: Trouble on the supply side for plastic
Although plastics recyclers are enjoying the benefits of “massive demand and extremely high prices,” they are struggling to source sufficient feedstock to enable them to cope with this “undoubted ...
"We mustn't sleepwalk into regulation"
"We as an industry now more than ever need to convey to the world the essential role we play in protecting the planet from climate change and the environmental damage caused by the extraction of ...
Euric calls for dialogue with steel industry on transfrontier waste shipment rules
In the conflict between scrap suppliers and their customers over possible export restrictions on ferrous scrap, Cinzia Vezzosi took an altogether more conciliatory tone at the BIR's spring ...
Repacar: WSR revision could "create captive market" for recovered paper
Representatives of the European recovered paper industry said the proposal for revising the EU Waste Shipments Regulation (WSR) was a threat to their businesses and to the free market at the Bureau ...
BIR appoints Alev Somer as deputy director trade and environment
The Bureau of International Recycling (BIR) has appointed Alev Somer deputy director trade and environment. According to the industry assocaiation, Ms Somer has over seven years of experience in ...
