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Ferrous Division: Terminology and energy costs dominate at Amsterdam meeting
| The BIR Ferrous Division meeting on May 23 heralded the release of its 14th edition of “World Steel Recycling in Figures”.
Think local, act local
| The report „Mapping local plastic recycling supply chains“ by The Circulate Initiative analyses plastic recycling in various Asian countries and makes suggestions for improving their supply chains.
Steinert’s three-part online seminar series
| Steinert will start a three-part online seminar series on different waste sorting technologies scheduled for mid-June.
BIR: Under-threat European stainless steel industry “no longer cost-competitive”
| Early 2023 had brought an improvement in market conditions for Europe’s stainless steel sector following the low demand suffered in 2022, reported BIR Stainless Steel & Special Alloys Committee Chairman Joost van Kleef of Oryx Stainless in his opening comments to the body’s latest meeting in Amsterdam on May 22.
BIR: Environmental issues are global and require a collective solution
| “Over the last two or three years, more and more countries have begun to look at raw material security,” observed BIR Non-Ferrous Metals Division President Dhawal Shah of India-based Metco Ventures LLP in addressing the body’s latest meeting, held in Amsterdam on May 22.
BIR looks to the future
| As well as celebrating BIR’s 75 years in the city of its birthplace, the focus at the World Recycling Convention in Amsterdam was on a modern, connected future which puts international recycling at the heart of the circular and global economy.
Plastics Recycling Show Europe to expand again for 2024
| The Plastics Recycling Show Europe (PRSE) 2023 exhibition and conference, held recently in Amsterdam, attracted a record number of visitors and exhibitors from across Europe and more than 80 different countries internationally.
BIR: First female president in 75 years
| Suzie Bourage became the first woman to be elected President of the Bureau of International Recycling in Amsterdam.
Orbex: Marketplace for authenticated recycled metals
| Orbex, according to their own statement, has launched the world’s first marketplace for globally recognised authenticated recycled metals.
Fate mostly unknown
| The European Topic Centre on Circular Economy and Resource Use (ETC CE) has investigated the quantity of used textiles exported from the EU.
Birmingham to become UK’s first centre for rare earth magnet recycling
| Rare earth recycling company HyProMag, which was formed by researchers from the University of Birmingham’s School of Metallurgy and Materials, is to be acquired by Maginito.
Recoup: Over 120k tonnes of plastics available for recycling
| Recoup has released its 2023 Plastics Management and Recycling at Household Waste Recycling Centres (HWRCs) in the UK report, finding a significant quantity of plastics going unrecycled.
VinylPlus: Making the EU Green Deal Happen
| VinylPlus launched its Progress Report 2023 at the 11th VinylPlus Sustainability Forum (VSF2023).
New research: Sustainable Packaging in Europe
| A new report, ‘Sustainable Packaging in Europe: the drive for change’, launched by Aquapak, shows that the European packaging industry is shifting the balance of materials it plans to use in the future and is investing in more sustainable options.
