BIR Plastics Round-Table | Recycling - a US$ 500 billion industry?

In the September issue of Recycling International, we reported on a study funded by the US Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries (ISRI) which concluded that, in America alone, the economic impact of the scrap recycling industry will amount to more than US$ 90 billion in 2011. Furthermore, it indicated that people and firms that purchase, process and broker scrap materials to be manufactured into new products provide almost 460 000 people with jobs in the USA.

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