10th International Automobile Congress IARC

March 3-5, 2010 

On behalf of the International Steering Committee I welcome you to the 10th International Automobile Congress IARC in Basel.

A connection to the recycling world in general is the Basel Convention. The Basel Convention - the control of transboundary movements of hazardous wastes and their disposal - entered into force on May 5, 1992 after being signed by 51 states. There has been a lot of debate which is still going on about the definitions regarding recovery, recycling and re-use. Although the convention declares that illegal hazardous waste traffic is criminal, it contains no real enforcement. Exporting waste in a general sense is still going on a large scale to third world countries to avoid high disposal costs