In Chinese, “scrap” and “waste” are essentially being translated into the same word, which often undermines the value of high-quality scrap metal, Tom Bird, president of BIR said during a press briefing at the World Recycling Convention in Budapest, Hungary.
In May 2019, the Chinese Nonferrous Metals Industry Association’s (CMRA) recycling metal branch submitted to the government a key proposal to rebrand high-quality copper...