Michael Brunn

From the 17th to the 25th of November 2018, the European Week for Waste Reduction (EWWR) takes place with more than 14,000 actions¹ related to waste reduction, products reuse and materials recycling.

In conjunction with the celebration America Recycles Day, the U.S. Senate Recycling Caucus hosted a briefing on Capitol Hill in which Robin Wiener, president of the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries (ISRI) moderated.

In the third quarter of 2018, the Wacker Neuson Group continued to build on the successful development evident during the first half of the year. Revenue increased 10 percent to EUR 416 million (Q3/17: EUR 379 million).

Exporting mixed plastic waste used to be a common practice in the past. For many countries this was an easy way out as they did not have to establish viable schemes to properly treat their waste domestically.

The co-signatories of this joint statement urge the Council to support the binding target of at least 35% recycled plastic in beverage bottles by 2025.

Mr Schnitzer is Vice-President of Ferrous Sales at Oregon based Schnitzer Steel Industries (USA) and has been with the company since 2003.

Southern based Rye Demolition are a company well known for taking on large and complex demolition projects. Recently winning the two-year contract to oversee the demolition and ground remediation of the former Kodak factory in Harrow, North London.

The federation has addressed some shortcomings in the process of evalution in a letter to the European Commission.

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.