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A waste of effort.


The BIR BIR British Institute of Radiology
BIR Bureau of Internal Revenue
BIR Bureau of International Recycling
BIR Baculovirus IAP Repeat
BIR Biomedical Imaging Resource
BIR Bureau of Intelligence and Research (US State Department) 
 is protesting a perceived increase in incidences of developed nations exporting solid waste to less developed countries.

Citing reports from the Belgian newspaper Le Soir Le Soir (meaning The Evening) is a Belgian newspaper in French. Le Soir was founded in 1887 by Emile Rossel. It is the most popular newspaper in the French speaking part of Belgium, followed by La Libre Belgique. , the BIR notes that 56 containers of household wastes, which reportedly contained a mixture of potentially recyclable re·cy·cle  
tr.v. re·cy·cled, re·cy·cling, re·cy·cles
1. To put or pass through a cycle again, as for further treatment.

2. To start a different cycle in.

3.
a.
 paper and containers, were stopped at docks in Antwerp.

"The separation stage must take place as close as possible to where these household or packaging [materials] are collected," the BIR says, in light of the food residue residue n. in a will, the assets of the estate of a person who has died with a will (died testate) which are left after all specific gifts have been made. Typical language: "I leave the rest, residue and remainder [or just residue] of my estate to my grandchildren.  remaining in such packaging, "health and environmental issues will probably arise when exporting such mixed materials," BIR says in a release.
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Title Annotation:BIR News; export of solid waste to less developed countries
Publication:Recycling Today
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Date:Apr 1, 2004
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