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Waste management companies are under enormous pressure today: not just from their customers, but also from their investors. If for example a company fails to fulfil its obligations with regard to environmental protection, it cannot assert itself in the market. Only those companies that continually keep up-to-date with the latest information can react early on to changes and new trends. For this reason, Kaatsch is an active member of many industry associations in different regions and, thus, is always up-to-date.
Bundesvereinigung Deutscher Stahlrecycling- und Entsorgungsunternehmen e.V.
www.bdsv.de
The BDSV is an economic association active across Germany. It represents the interests of approx. 700 steel recycling and waste management companies. As a result, it is the largest steel recycling association in Europe.
The associations essential tasks are:
- Representing members’ interests in business and politics
- Protecting the predominantly medium-sized structure of the industry
- Keeping members informed
- Public relations
- Organising events
The BDSV is a member of various, expert regional committees and groups and works closely with other associations, such as the BIR, KBS and the GAZ.
Bureau of International Recycling
www.bir.org
The Bureau of International Recycling (BIR) was founded in 1948 as the global umbrella association for the recycling industry. Today, the BIR has more than 570 member companies and 42 national associations from 55 countries. The members work in the secondary raw materials industries for iron and steel, non-ferrous metals, stainless steels and special alloys, textiles, paper, plastics and tyres. They profit from the support and information regularly provided by the BIR.
The BIR’s main aim is to promote the recycling industry and to guarantee free movement of goods in all sectors of industry across the world. In this context, the BIR is in regular contact with the European Commission, European Parliament, the OECD, the United Nations and other national and supranational authorities.
Entsorgergemeinschaft der Deutschen Stahl- und NE-Metall-Recycling-Wirtschaft e.V.
www.esn-info.de
The ESN is an alliance of waste management companies founded in accordance with the Closed Substance Cycle and Waste Management Act (KrW-/AbfG).
The ESN was founded in 1996 by the industry associations BDSV and VDM. Today, the ESN is the second largest alliance of waste management companies in Germany with around 380 members. Of these members, 334 companies have been certified as waste management plants to date.
Displaying the ESN inspection mark not only shows that the company is a waste management plant in the sense of § 52 KrW-/AbfG, but also that it has expertise in steel and non-ferrous metal recycling. ESN inspection is viewed very highly in the recycling industry. The ESN includes other tests for certification as a waste management plant (quality management, environmental management, Used Vehicles Ordinance).
Entsorgung- und Beratungsgesellschaft für die deutsche Recyclingswirtschaft mbH & Co. KG
www.gebr-entsorgung.de
The GEBR was founded in 1991 as a waste management and consultation enterprise for the German recycling industry. The reason at that time was above all the increasing monopolisation of the recycling market. The GBR today provides for proper environmentally-friendly disposal and use of waste and resources.
Many years of know-how and medium-sized flexibility in collecting packaging in the pool and credit systems ensures ecological reliability. The GEBR mainly represents the interests of medium-sized recycling companies in Germany.
What is recycled?
Used cars, construction rubble, metal + plastic packaging, electronic scrap, filters from cars + machines, foil, plastic containers, glass, wood, compostable waste, catalysers from cars + machines, plastics and compounds, metals (ferrous and non-ferrous), paper and cardboard, PVC components, steel grit, sludges, textiles, straps.
Kreislaufsystem Blechverpackungen Stahl GmbH
www.kbs-recycling.de
Companies from the steel, scrap recycling and metal packaging industries have come together in a cross-industry initiative and founded a comprehensive return and reuse system for commercial steel packaging: the Kreislaufsystem Blechverpackungen Stahl – KBS.
Wertstoff-Aufbereitungs-Gesellschaft mbH & Co.
www.weag.de
The WEAG accepts all waste and resource mixtures from construction and processes them into high quality secondary raw materials.
The resulting products are raw materials again for steel and metal production and paper, plastic and chip board manufacture. The WEAG also supplies rubble substitutes to the building industry for trench filling or road building.
The WEAG’s sorting plant was designed and developed using the latest knowledge of sorting and processing technology and incorporated twenty years of experience in sorting waste and resource mixes.
WSA GmbH & Co.
WSA GmbH & Co. offers individual consulting services and creates waste management concepts for businesses and industrial firms. New waste management and recycling concepts are developed and established in an information exchange with authorities and associations.
16 well-known waste management companies from the Esslingen district and the surrounding area are focussed on marketing secondary raw materials and introducing their customers to recycling management. Resources are collated and processed into marketable lots. This is the purpose of WSA GmbH & Co.’s various interim storage facilities, pressing stations and processing plants, which are operated by contractual partners or associates.
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