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• Glossary of Terms for legal clarity
  Update on legislative/environmental matters At the United Nations: Glossary of Terms for legal clarity The main focus of the Glossary of Terms is to provide guidance for further legal clarity in relation to the distinction between wastes and non-wastes. This distinction has been a particular problem with regard to cross-border transportation of used substances or objects intended for reuse. This glossary includes definitions of terms and further explanations, including how certain terms relate t...
• UN-EP Basel Convention - Review of Annexes
  Update on legislative/environmental matters At the United Nations: UN-EP Basel Convention - Review of Annexes Jacinthe Seguin (Canada) and Joost Meijer (Chile) co-chaired the first meeting of the Expert Working Group on the review of Annexes I, III, IV and related aspects of Annex IX, as entrusted to it by the 13th Conference of the Parties in the middle of last year. BIR thanks the government of Japan for its financial support to hold the meeting. BIR Trade & Environment Director Ross Bartl...
• EU imports and exports, as well as trade in waste and scrap within the EU
  EU imports and exports, as well as trade in waste and scrap within the EU REMINDER: The European Commission’s public consultation on the evaluation of the “Regulation (EC) No 1013/2006 on shipments of waste” is open until April 27 2018.The public consultation is available in various official languages of the EU. Go to the Webpage of the “Public Consultation on the Evaluation of the Waste Shipment Regulation” and select your language. Or go directly to the survey at: https://ec.europa....
• BIR Director General Arnaud Brunet attends various national association events
  BIR Director General Arnaud Brunet attends various national association events Working closely with BIR’s national member associations is very high on Arnaud Brunet’s agenda. Since joining BIR last year, he has been attending a number of national association events to establish a close and fruitful contact with their leadership and also understand that challenges that recycling companies are facing at national levels. Most recently, Mr Brunet attended the Annual Conference of EuRIC on 6 Marc...
• Barcelona Convention - Ferrous Division Speaker announced!
  BIR World Recycling Convention & Exhibition in Barcelona: (27) 28- 30 May 2018 Ferrous Division: Tuesday 29 May 2018, 09.00 - 10.30 Don't miss an engaging and inspiring plenary presentation by Jason Schenker, Prestige Economics If anybody in the ferrous scrap business (and not only!) wants to know where the markets are heading, attending the next Ferrous Division in Barcelona is a must! Don't miss an engaging and inspiring conversation with Jason Schenker, founder and president of Prestige E...
• China: additional import prohibitions for 32 types of solid waste
  China: additional import prohibitions for 32 types of solid waste On 19 April 2018, China's Ministry of Ecology and Environment (MEE) announced that China will ban imports of an additional 16 types of solid waste from December 2018 and a further 16 types of solid waste from December 2019 in order to further standardise the management of solid waste imports, and to prevent, control and reduce environmental pollution. Sixteen types of solid wastes, including industrial plastic waste, waste hardwar...
• World Customs Organisation: Work to better identify E-Waste at Customs
  World Customs Organisation: Work to better identify E-Waste at Customs The Harmonized Commodity Description and Coding System (“Harmonized System” - HS) is a multipurpose international nomenclature developed by the World Customs Organization for the classification of goods. It comprises about 5,000 commodity groups, each identified by a six-digit code, arranged in a legal and logical structure and is supported by well-defined rules to achieve uniform classification. Products are described in...
• United Nations: Revision of 'E-waste Technical Guideline' progresses
  United Nations: Revision of 'E-waste Technical Guideline' progresses The 'E-waste Technical Guideline' will inform Governments elaborating national laws for the export and import of E-waste and used equipment that is not waste. This Second Meeting of the UN expert working group on the E-waste guidelines took place in Geneva, Switzerland from 17 to 19 April.The full name of the 'E-waste Technical Guideline' is the 'Technical guidelines on transboundary movements of electrical and electronic waste...
• China: additional import prohibitions for 32 types of solid waste
  China: additional import prohibitions for 32 types of solid waste BIR reported in its News dated 23/04/2018 that all plastic waste and scrap, both industrial arisings and post-consumer scrap, will be prohibited for export to China by December 2018. This results from the prohibitions on imports to China of some 24 wastes that entered into force at the end of 2017 and the upcoming prohibition on industrial waste plastic set for 2019.BIR informed its members first, but subsequently has been informi...
• Global Recycling Day – the global impact in numbers
  Global Recycling Day – the global impact in numbers As reported in the last eBrief, the Global Recycling Day has known a huge success. A movement has definitely been started – events, campaigns and efforts sparking up across the globe – with the Seventh Resource at its heart. Several major global brands have joined in (some already teed up for year two conversations). Engagement with the UN has surpassed expectations, the GRD manifesto has opened many doors and has been adopted at a grass...