| ICM AG has distributed the program for its Electronics & Cars Recycling conference, taking place from November 15 – 18, 2016 at the Sheraton Grand Macao Hotel.

| Aluminium plays a key role in mobility, but up to 50% of the material used in the stamping processes common in mass production operations was wasted because there was no way of separating the production waste for recycling. The Steinert LSS (Laser Sorting System) enables alloys to be cleanly separated from one another.

| After the first plastics recycling line in 2014, Starlinger Recycling Technology supplied a second line to Candi Plastic Recycling in Sollenau, Lower Austria, last year. In July 2016, the third Starlinger line took up production at the company’s subsidiary Calex in Romania.

| The UK Household Plastics Collection Survey outlines the collection of household plastics in the UK.

| After a long period of negative news, William Schmiedel, President of the BIR Ferrous Division, finally sees signals of better times ahead.

| The Board of Directors of the World Steel Association (Worldsteel) has elected a new chairman,new vice chairmen and a new treasurer for a one-year period.

| The World Steel Association (Worldsteel) forecasts that global steel demand will increase by 0.2% to 1,501 Mt in 2016, following a contraction of -3.0% in 2015. In 2017, it is forecast that global steel demand will grow by 0.5% and will reach 1,510 Mt.

| Leading federations representing the paper value chain call for the co-legislators to support the further increase of paper recycling and safeguard the “quantity” criterion in the definition of municipal waste.

| A recent study from Malta shows that recycling can work even without economic incentives.

| Hitachi Zosen Inova (HZI) is to build Edinburgh’s energy-from-waste plant. The Swiss clean-tech company delivers the complete technology including its combustion technology and a dry flue gas treatment system. The latter will reduce water use and improve the energy efficiency of the plant.

| The World Steel Association (Worldsteel) today launched the 2016 edition of Sustainable Steel – Policy and Indicators, highlighting how steel and the steel industry contribute to and perform in the areas of economic, environmental and social sustainability.

| The European paper and board industry welcomes the European Parliament report by the rapporteur Christel Schaldemose MEP on implementation of the Framework Regulation on Food Contact Materials.

| Used as a pre-shredder, the new Lindner Micromat WS wet shredder is the first step in washing systems for post-consumer plastic scrap.

| The situation of the European Copper Alloy Ingot Makers increased slightly com-pared to the previous year. This was pointed out by the President of OECAM, An-ton Bauer, during the last General Assembly in Vienna.

| Starlinger is presenting a technology at K 2016 that reduces the smell during and after recycling significantly and allows recyclers to “upcycle” their end product.