EUWID - Recycling and Waste Management

The 39 European producer responsibility organisations represented in the WEEE Forum collected and properly treated and reported more than 2m tonnes of waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) in the year 2009. The umbrella organisation,

The British waste company Shanks Group plc has ended buy-out discussions with a fund managed by the US investment house The Carlyle Group. According a 9 March statement by Shanks, the decision to discontinue talks came after the private equity firm had proposed a final

Swedish-owned Metso Lindemann has announced layoffs at its operations in Düsseldorf, Germany. In a Monday statement, the company, which manufactures shredders and other heavy equipment for metals recycling and other recycling activities,

The waste management and environmental services division of French group Veolia Environnement recorded generated revenues of EUR 9.055bn in 2009. Compared with the previous year’s sales of EUR 9.972bn, this is a 9 per cent drop. Announcing the past

In a judgment issued on Thursday, the European Court of Justice confirmed that the waste management crisis in Naples and the surrounding Campania region constituted a breach of EU environmental law and endangered human health and the environment.