BIR Committee to investigate plastic scrap specs.Members of the Bureau of International Recycling recycling, the process of recovering and reusing waste products—from household use, manufacturing, agriculture, and business—and thereby reducing their burden on the environment. (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) ) Plastics Committee are creating a working group to develop grades and specifications for plastic scrap to help to unify 1. (database, product) Unify - A relational database produced by Unify Corporation. 2. (algorithm) unify - To perform unification. global trading standards for these materials. At the BIR conference in London London, city, Canada London, city (1991 pop. 303,165), SE Ont., Canada, on the Thames River. The site was chosen in 1792 by Governor Simcoe to be the capital of Upper Canada, but York was made capital instead. London was settled in 1826. in late October, Peter Daalder of Daly Plastics and chairman of the BIR's plastics committee, said the working group would seek representatives from organizations that have already developed national specifications for plastic scrap. These organizations include the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries Inc., Germany's BVSE (Association for Secondary Raw Materials and Waste Disposal) and the U.K.'s PAS 103 system, developed by WRAP (Waste & Resources Action Program me) and the British Plastics Federation. |
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