International Congress & Marketing (ICM), a Swiss company, has announced the dates for the Sixth International Electronics Recycling Congress.

The event will be in Hamburg, Germany, Jan. 17-19, 2007.

More than 300 delegates from industry, government authorities and academia are expected.

The preliminary program includes sessions on financial guarantees for recycling, reports on trading metals and plastics internationally, OEMs’ zero-landfill policies and take-back and recycling programs. Sessions also focus on the export of electronics to Asia, news about recycling and recovery processes and plants for recycling and the technologies available for dismantling, sorting and recycling of electronics.
A roundtable discussion centers on the EU legislation REACH (Registration, Evaluation and Authorization of Chemicals) and RoHS (Restriction on Hazardous Substances).

The congress includes a networking dinner and visits to electronics recycling plants and a leading copper smelter.