Movilex, present at the BIR 2018 held this week in Barcelona.

Our company has been present, once again, at a world benchmark meeting on recycling, BIR 2018. The World Recycling Summit has been held in Barcelona in recent days and almost a thousand companies have participated in it from the field of recycling representing some seventy countries. Among them, Movilex Recycling Group, through its CEO, Luis García Torremocha, and the CSSO and General Director of Movilex LATAM, Pipo García Torremocha.

Beyond discussing issues related to business actions derived from the interest in preserving the environment, promoting recycling and updating the commitment to fight climate change, one of the main conclusions of BIR 2018 involves the creation of the so-called World Council of Recycling Associations. Its main objective will be to put into practice sustainable measures that allow the development of actions, research and influential actions worldwide, although especially in developing countries, to maintain the potential of recycling as the main source of energy savings, conservation of natural resources and of pollution reduction.

70 years BIR

Throughout this year the 70th anniversary of the Bureau of International Recycling (International Recycling Office), founded in 1948 and which is based in Brussels, will be celebrated. Among its main functions is the promotion of «recycling of materials as well as facilitating free and fair trade in recyclable materials» through the more than 760 companies in the sector from 70 countries that make it up.

In the presentation of this world convention, held in Barcelona, they expressed their confidence in the support of the recycling industry, each time with greater potential for growth and change. In fact, according to the data revealed, «more than 1.6 million people around the world are active in the recycling industry and treat more than 600 million tons of recyclable materials each year, which means an annual turnover of more than of 200 billion dollars”. Thus, this industry will be key in achieving «some sustainable objectives of the UN 2030 promoting the Seventh Resource, that is, recyclable materials and, above all, saving more than 700 million tons of CO2 emissions annually.»