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Sir Gerry Berragan, Chief Executive of the Institute for Apprenticeships today launched the first sector-specific apprenticeship for the metals recycling industry.

The 24th International Congress for Battery Recycling ICBR 2019. will be held in Lyon, France from September 18 – 20, 2019. Call for papers deadline is January 31, 2019.

The Global Recycling Standards Organization, the home of The Recycling Industry Operating Standard (RIOS) has recently elected Darrell Hogan as a new Chairman who will serve a two year term ending in 2020.

Swiss waste management firm Altola has invested in a new Untha XR3000C wood shredder to help futureproof its biomass production line.

Tomra Sorting Recycling has promoted Business Development Engineer László Székely to the newly-created post of Head of New Plastics Economy.

The Recylex Group is today releasing its sales for the first nine months of 2018 and for the third quarter of 2018.

The U.S. municipal solid waste management market size will exceed USD 25 Billion by 2024, as reported in the latest study by Global Market Insights, Inc.

Members of the ENVI committee of the European Parliament voted today on the Commission proposal about the Cohesion Fund post-2020. 

In view of its commitment to achieving a 74% paper recycling rate across Europe by 2020, the European Paper Recycling Council (EPRC) today confirmed its latest recycling figure of 72.3% in its 2017 monitoring report.

According to the Consumer Choice Center (CCC), Parliamentarians have now created a more restrictive strategy than the one originally suggested by the European Commission, and are about to start negotiations with the European Council.

World crude steel production for the 64 countries reporting to the World Steel Association (Worldsteel) was 151.7 million tonnes (Mt) in September 2018, a 4.4% increase compared to September 2017.