BIR Spring Convention Addresses Recycling's Environmental Contribution

摘要

The enormous environmental contribution of the recycling industry, not least in saving carbon dioxide emissions, was underlined by an array of guest speakers at the Bureau of International Recycling's (BIR) 2008 Spring Convention. The event was attended by an all-time high of more than 1,300 delegates on the occasion of the association's 60th birthday. At the BIR General Assembly held in Monte-Carlo on June 3, keynote speaker Lord Nicholas Stern of Brentford outlined the dangers of greenhouse gas emissions and declared: "You should be the heroes of this story." The 500 million tons-plus of carbon dioxide equivalent that the recycling industry saved from entering the atmosphere each year had a value of some US$20 billion - "a very significant contribution,"declared the author of the world-famous Stern Report on climate change.