
The Bureau of International Recycling (BIR), Brussels, has alerted its members that Jake Farber, the association’s one-time president and the president emeritus of Alpert & Alpert Iron & Metal Inc., a nonferrous scrap processing and trading company based in Los Angeles, died March 24 at the age of 94.
Farber served as BIR President from 1987 to 1991, with the association saying that he was instrumental in further developing the organization.
He also received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries (ISRI), Washington, BIR’s American members’ association, for his commitment and leadership within ISRI and its predecessor organization NARI (National Association of Recycling Industries), of which he was president from 1978 to 1980.
Services for Farber are scheduled for noon March 26 at Mount Sinai Hollywood Hills -
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