Posts from Martijn Reintjes

12-06-2018

Business

Waste crime under the microscope

The UK government has announced a review into serious and organised crime in the waste sector in England. It has been…

08-06-2018

2018 is ‘a very challenging year’ for the scrap industry, said BIR Non-Ferrous Metals Division President David Chiao of the…

07-06-2018

Business Rubber

Even though some 100 separate studies have declared as safe the use of crumb rubber in playgrounds and sports pitches,…

05-06-2018

Business Plastics

China’s ‘unprecedented’ move to stop plastics scrap imports has ‘surprised the whole world’, according to Dr Steve Wong of Fukutomi…

04-06-2018

By the end of 2018, the number of shredders in China will have soared to around 200 from only 70…

04-06-2018

Business Paper

Paper recycling operations using the correct equipment have the capability to achieve the quality standard laid down by the Chinese…

04-06-2018

BIR Convention Gallery

The world recycling organisation’s latest convention & exhibition, held late May in Barcelona, Spain, was attended by more than 1100…

30-05-2018

E-scrap Research

The world will be generating close to 54 million tonnes of discarded electronics by the year 2025 as compared to…

25-05-2018

Business

Holly Fowler, Lennie Jones and Ming Dawe are Entrepreneurship students at Falmouth University in Cornwall, UK. Using glass they collect…

18-05-2018

Business IFAT

Recycling equipment sales may be skyrocketing, as became clear during this week’s IFAT trade show in Munich. But at the…

14-05-2018

WasteAid, a UK-based waste management charity whose objective is to prevent plastics from reaching the oceans, has launched a photography…