2nd Recycling World Congress

The Congress covered a diversity of recycling topics and was concerned with practices in countries that have not featured prominently or at all in the literature. Papers ranged over waste avoidance, materials reclamation and environmental protection. This report expands on many of the considerations discussed at the Congress. Co-sponsored by the Bureau International de la Récupération, the Society of Chemical Industry, the Institution of Metallurgists, the Institution of Production Engineers, the US Bureau of Mines, Illinois Institute of Technology Research Institute, Clean Japan Center, Japan Waste Management Association, and the journal Conservation and Recycling. Local sponsors were the National Science Development Board of the Philippines and the Asian Recycling Association. Manila, Philippines, 20–22 March 1979.