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• Global Recycling Day - City-wide clean-up campaign confirmed in Johannesburg for Global Recycling Day
  Global Recycling Day - City-wide clean-up campaign confirmed in Johannesburg for Global Recycling Day  A day of events has been confirmed in Johannesburg, including a city-wide clean-up campaign, to celebrate Global Recycling Day.  It will be held on Friday 16 March, just two days ahead first ever Global Recycling Day (18 March). Global Recycling Day will unite people across the world, highlighting the need to conserve our six primary resources (water, air, coal, oil, natural gas and minerals)...
• Ferrous: Disappointment over lack of contractual commitment
   PRESS RELEASEFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEMonday,2 June 2009BIR WorldRecycling Convention25-27 May2009, DubaiPressReleases on Commodity SessionsFerrousDivision(followedby Shredder Committee):Disappointmentover lack of contractual commitmentThe ferrous scrap industryexperienceda “confidence shock” when some major consumers looked to escapefrom their contractual obligations in response to the global economiccrisis. But these obligations have since been fulfilled following“fruitful” discussions b...
• Recent BIR World Recycling Convention in Amsterdam - Tyres & Rubber Committee: Decline in crumb rubber market despite research findings
  Recent BIR World Recycling Convention (Round-Table Sessions) in Amsterdam (24-25 October 2016) Tyres & Rubber Committee: Decline in crumb rubber market despite research findings More than 90 related studies carried out by government, industry and academia have concluded that there is “no link between cancer and crumb rubber in synthetic turf”, it was emphasised by Robin Wiener, President of the US Institute of the Scrap Recycling Industries (ISRI), at the BIR Tyres & Rubber Committee...
• European Chemicals Regulations being amended to prohibit certain CMR chemicals in Clothing and Textiles that contact skin
  European Chemicals Regulations being amended to prohibit certain CMR* chemicals in Clothing and Textiles that contact skin The EU Chemicals Regulation REACh is not limited to new products and also applies to second-hand goods. BIR asked last year for second-hand clothing to have an exemption from the REACh Regulation prohibition on new clothing, explaining that used clothes have been washed often many times and so no longer have the same chemicals in them as new production clothing. BIR has obta...
• Recent BIR World Recycling Convention & Exhibition in Berlin - General Assembly / Keynote Session: BIR launching World Council of Recycling Associations
  Recent BIR World Recycling Convention & Exhibition in Berlin (30 May – 1 June 2016) General Assembly / Keynote Session: BIR launching World Council of Recycling Associations BIR is spearheading the formation of a new body “to take forward the message of facilitating free and fair trade of recyclables with minimum regulatory controls”, it was announced at the body’s Annual General Assembly in Berlin on May 31. The BIR World Council of Recycling Associations would bring together the pr...
• Ferrous Division: Round-Table meeting to provide vital updates on changing scrap market dynamics
  Upcoming BIR World Recycling Convention (Autumn Round-Table Sessions), Barcelona, (28)29-30 October 2012 Ferrous Division: Round-Table meeting to provide vital updates on changing scrap market dynamics The upcoming plenary session of the BIR Ferrous Division under the presidency of Christian Rubach of TSR Recycling will focus during its round-table discussions on important trends in the ferrous scrap market and on ongoing developments in ferrous scrap utilisation by steel mills. On Monday, 29 O...
• Overview
  BIR ConventionsBIR’s twice-yearly conventions are the highlight of the global recycling events calendar.The conventions are designed to give companies and individuals in the recycling industry the opportunity to: Make new contacts in a truly international environment: BIR brings together more than 70 nationalities from around the world, creating excellent networking opportunities and a great place to build partnerships. Follow industry trends: BIR conventions provide analytical commodity infor...
• Metal theft from containers - Update: BIR is alarmed in light of increasing crime rate
  Metal theft from containers - Update: BIR is alarmed in light of increasing crime rate Over the last weeks, more BIR member companies have been reporting cargo losses due to theft and fraud, particularly with containers in transit in certain parts of the world. These reports show that the problem of metal theft from containers, which was extensively discussed during a special workshop at BIR’s 2012 World Recycling Convenion in Rome, is still ongoing. There have been several cases of container...
• Will many recycling companies be forced to change their names?
  Will many recycling companies be forced to change their names? The Expert Working Group (EWG) met last December in Argentina as part of its review of Annexes I, III and IV, as well as related aspects of Annex IX, to the Basel Convention. In this context, the EU has put forward proposals that have shocked recyclers, particularly in developing countries. Changes to the Basel Convention’s Annexes will have widespread repercussions across the world as nearly all countries will change their nationa...
• Tyres
  Materials There are an estimated 800 million cars and commercial vehicles in use worldwide, with almost 70 million units being added to that number every year. The explosive growth in the automobile sector in recent decades has been accompanied by a substantial increase in volume of end-of-life tyres. Significant developments by the recycling industry can now guarantee the adequate recovery of the millions of tyres that are disposed of daily. Mainly composed of rubber, textiles and steel, tyres...