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• BIR World Mirror on Non-Ferrous Metals - July 2013
  Short-term fix with long-term ramifications I am often asked where the “next China” will be as a destination for non-ferrous scrap, and my short answer is always the same: there will never be one. The voracious appetite for our scrap in that country has a generation behind it, and it is in a state of maturation that is quite evident. “Green Fence”, although branded as a short-term fix for many of the problems facing China’s import of scrap, will have long-term ramifications for our in...
• BIR World Mirror on Ferrous Metals - July 2013
  BIR World Mirror on Ferrous Metals -July 2013 PRESIDENT'S OPENING REMARKSby Christian Rubach, TSR Recycling In troubled waters It is just five weeks since we gathered in Shanghai for our latest BIR Ferrous Division meeting. One of our main guest speakers Peter Marcus, Managing Partner of World Steel Dynamics and one of the world steel market’s foremost gurus, was very outspoken: his picture of an old car stuck in the middle of a muddy road was intended to symbolise China’s outlook to 2014  ...
• BIR offers forum for exchange between national associations during its conventions
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• BIR Shanghai E-Scrap: Workshop heralds new BIR Electronic Scrap Committee
  
• BIR Shanghai E-Scrap: Workshop heralds new BIR Electronic Scrap Committee
  Workshop on E-Scrap: Workshop heralds new BIR Electronic Scrap Committee Brussels, 10 June 2013 At the BIR’s latest Convention, a workshop on electronic scrap (e-scrap) was organised as a forerunner to the formation of the world recycling organisation’s new Electronic Scrap Committee, which will operate under the auspices of the BIR Non-Ferrous Metals Division and will be chaired by Phär Oscár of Stena Metall in Sweden who has more than 20 years’ experience in this field. Speaking in Sha...
• BIR Shanghai Workshop on Latin America: BIR highlights three key issues
  Workshop on Latin America: BIR highlights three key issues Brussels, 11 June 2013 The influence of Latin America within the recycling industry will continue to grow over the coming years. For this reason, the BIR’s Latin America Committee will examine ways to increase the world recycling organisation’s support to recyclers in the region. To this same end, the BIR is holding its main Convention in Miami next June as a means of encouraging wider participation from Latin America. Ahead of this...
• BIR Shanghai Paper: China's "Green Fence" builds quality focus
  Paper Division: China’s “Green Fence” builds quality focus Brussels, 5 June 2013 Exporters from the USA and Europe must not only put quality at “the top of every business agenda” when supplying recovered fibre to Asia but also increase their focus on the specific quality requirements of the individual receiving country, observed Ranjit S. Baxi of UK-based J & H Sales International in his final meeting as the BIR Paper Division’s President before handing over the reins to Reinhold...
• BIR Shanghai IEC: Uncertain future for radioactivity Code of Conduct
  International Environment Council: Uncertain future for radioactivity Code of Conduct Brussels, 5 June 2013 A draft Code of Conduct that reflects many of the recycling industry’s long-held concerns over radioactivity in scrap has fallen just short of winning acceptance at the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), it was reported at the BIR International Environment Council (IEC) meeting in Shanghai on May 28. At an IAEA gathering in February this year, some 60 nations approved the draft �...
• BIR Shanghai Textiles: Pressure mounts as prices of originals reach "a zenith"
  Textiles Division: Pressure mounts as prices of originals reach “a zenith” Brussels, 5 June 2013 The very survival of textiles recyclers in various parts of the world was the focus of discussion at the BIR Textiles Division meeting in Shanghai on May 29. For the UK, Alan Wheeler of the Textile Recycling Association revealed that more than 10% of his organisation’s membership had ceased trading in the last year or so because some textiles collectors “could not afford to continue paying th...
• BIR Shanghai ITC: ITC tackles massed threat from theft, fraud and protectionism
  International Trade Council: ITC tackles massed threat from theft, fraud and protectionism Brussels, 5 June 2013 Since BIR’s 2012 Spring Convention in Rome, metals theft and fraud had been “growing at a dramatic pace”, lamented International Trade Council (ITC) Chairman Robert Voss of UK-based Voss International at the outset of the meeting in Shanghai. Twelve months earlier, the ITC had devoted a special workshop to the study of the extent to which theft and fraud were impacting the metal...