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  The General Assembly ratifies the main decisions regarding BIR and has full power to achieve the objectives of the federation. The GA is convened once a year by the Director General on behalf of the Executive Committee and under the mandate of the BIR President. It usually gathers during the Spring Convention and all members and participants at the event may attend. However, only effective members have voting rights. The votes will be expressed by simple majority of the present or represented ef...
• Barcelona Convention - Shredder Committee: “Big movement” towards shredder and scrap use in China
  BIR World Recycling Convention & Exhibition in Barcelona (27 - 30 May 2018) Shredder Committee: “Big movement” towards shredder and scrap use in China It is estimated that, by the end of 2018, the number of shredders in China will have soared to around 200 from only 70 last year. According to the BIR Shredder Committee’s latest list, the global population of shredders is now thought to be 1048, including 322 in the USA and more than 300 in Europe.There was “a real big movement” in...
• Recent BIR World Recycling Convention in Amsterdam - E-Scrap Committee: EPR “hodge-podge” is confounding harmonisation
  Recent BIR World Recycling Convention (Round-Table Sessions) in Amsterdam (24-25 October 2016) E-Scrap Committee: EPR “hodge-podge” is confounding harmonisation Extended producer responsibility (EPR) schemes have had a major impact on e-scrap recycling not only in Europe but also, increasingly, in other parts of the world, observed BIR E-Scrap Committee Chairman Thomas Papageorgiou of Greece-based Anamet SA in introducing the main theme of the body’s latest meeting on October 24. In India,...
• International Environment Council: End-of-waste criteria crucial for the recycling industry
  International Environment Council: End-of-waste criteria crucial for the recycling industry The process taking place within the EU to develop end-of-waste criteria is very much needed by the recycling industry, underlined BIR Environmental & Technical Director Ross Bartley at the Istanbul meeting of the International Environment Council (IEC). The world recycling body “will go right to the end of the process” to ensure maximum benefit and relief for its members and for the industry as a...
• Global Recycling Day is inspiring events across the world from Europe, to Africa and USA
  Global Recycling Day is inspiring events across the world from Europe, to Africa and USAGlobal Recycling Day, taking place on 18th March 2019, has inspired a host of events and initiatives across the world to raise awareness of the importance of ‘Recycling into the Future’ (this year’s theme) for the wellbeing of the planet. The Global Recycling Foundation is proud to be collaborating with various organisations across the globe with events and activities ranging from school fun days to fas...
• Düsseldorf Convention: Ferrous Division guest speakers
  Two excellent guest speakers have confirmed their participation at the Ferrous Division plenary sessionDr Jost A. Massenberg, Member of the Executive Board, ThyssenKrupp Steel AG, will be giving a presentation on ThyssenKrupp’s strategies for the global steel markets.Dr Massenberg has been Executive Board Member of ThyssenKrupp Stahl AG since 1998. In the Executive Board of the new ThyssenKrupp Steel AG he is responsible for the Industry Business Unit, representing a sales volume of approxima...
• Recent BIR Barcelona Convention - Textiles Division: Margins under pressure as originals prices soar
  Textiles Division: Margins under pressure as originals prices soar The originals market has become “a tough struggle” for recyclers as prices reach a “zenith”, according to BIR Textiles Division President Olaf Rintsch of Textil Recycling K&A Wenkhaus GmbH of Germany. The end result for many companies, he suggested at the Textiles Round-Table in Barcelona on October 29, could be “shorter working times” and even “an early Christmas”, adding that the onset of winter weather wou...
• Recent BIR World Recycling Convention & Exhibition in Hong Kong - BIR Annual General Assembly and Keynote Session: Free and fair trade must remain “core principle”
  Recent BIR World Recycling Convention & Exhibition in Hong Kong (22-24 May 2017) BIR Annual General Assembly and Keynote Session: Free and fair trade must remain “core principle” One of the main challenges currently facing the global recycling industry is “the increasing burden of legislative controls that does not help in the promotion of a smooth and efficient system of waste collection, segregation and transportation of recyclables,” BIR World President Ranjit Baxi of J&H Sale...
• BIR commends Project Kaisei’s mission
   PRESS RELEASEFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEBrussels,2 September 2009BIRcommends Project Kaisei’s missionAftera four-weekjourney, Project Kaisei has completed its two-boat mission to theNorth Pacific Gyre with the return to San Francisco Bay of thefour-mast sailing boat Kaisei on 31 August. Throughout theexpedition, of which BIR was the main sponsor, the crew of the Kaiseiand of the New Horizon kept their public abreast of all findings andpreliminary research results via their blogs, Facebook and vari...
• Launch of BIR World Commodity Survey: “Intelligent recycling” to become ever more crucial
  Launch of BIR World Commodity Survey: “Intelligent recycling” to become ever more crucial “We are definitely in the most volatile of all words,” declared Professor Philippe Chalmin of the Paris-Dauphine University in launching the follow-up to his survey of the world markets for recovered and recycled commodities. Speaking in Munich at the latest Autumn Convention of the BIR world recycling organisation, Professor Chalmin argued that prices have fallen for many commodities in recent mon...