Michael Brunn

The market for plastics recycling does not look very promising, Surendra Patawari Borad, Präsident of BIRs plastics committee explained at the beginning of BIR's autumn conference in Amsterdam.

At the BIR autumn congress in Amsterdam Alexandra Weibel-Natan of Manco gave at not too optimistic market report for non-ferrous metals.

In a presentation of the non-ferrous metals division at the BIR autumn congress in Amsterdam, ISRI-Chair Mark Lewon gave an overview of the USA scrap market and urged the companies to reinvent themselves.

At the BIR conference in Amsterdam, the World council of recycling association had its constitutional meeting.

During their meeting in Lisbon, the Statistical Committee of the International Copper Study Group (ICSG) has developed their forecast for the rest of 2016 and the coming year.

The new facility in Halmstad, Sweden, has been developed in close collaboration with customers and partners, including those from the automotive industry.

The three plastics industry organisations EuPC, PRE and PE have launched a new Polyolefin Circular Economy Platform (PCEP) through which the industry calls on all actors to join them in driving towards this goal and play their part.

SCS Engineer's Michelle Leonard has been appointed to Federal Environmental Technologies Trade Advisory Committee to serve through the term of the Committee's current charter which expires on August 18, 2018.

An E-Trash Transparency Project report from Basel Action Network (BAN) that GPS-tracked 200 electronic waste products cites a printer that was exported from the United States and disposed of at a non-certified facility in New Territories, Hong Kong. In this report, Good Point Recycling, a US-based electronics recycler, claims this device was provided to Li Tong Group for processing through its downstream partner, ARCOA Group.

In Venice, the Italian waste management company Ecoprogetto Venezia SRL shreds waste wood and green cuttings using a mobile Lindner Urraco 75 powerline two-shaft shredder. The waste wood is subsequently converted into wood panels and the waste green into compost.