EUWID - Recycling and Waste Management

Sita UK is restructuring its operations to create a new division for energy recovery operations, the British subsidiary of French environmental services giant Suez Environnement announced on Thursday. The new organisational unit, Sita Energy Solutions, is

Despite significant recent investment in British plastic bottle processing capacity, nearly 78 per cent of the plastics collected in the UK for recycling last year were exported.The Waste & Resources Action Programme (Wrap) reports that 700,000 tonnes of plastics were shipped

The pace of business on the German recovered paper market has been sedate in August. The supply of recovered paper is lower due to the holiday period. Demand from paper mills remains good at the same time. Exports are weak, however. Demand in

The waste management industry in Germany made around €1.17bn in facility investments in 2008. According to recently released figures from the Federal Statistical Office, 416 waste collection companies invested a total of just under €538m. In the waste treatment

The Australian Environment Minister Peter Garrett has approved the export of hazardous wastes belonging to chemicals company Orica to Denmark for disposal on Wednesday. Foloowing a June decision by the Danish Environment Protection Agency to allow the