EUWID - Recycling and Waste Management

British waste management company Shanks Group plc said that performance in the half ended 30 June 2010 had met expectations, with improved prices for recyclate, new contracts and continued benefits from cost-saving measures balancing out volumes reductions and the effects of pricing

Exports and collection volumes continued to be the key factors influencing prices on the British recovered paper market in July. Export prices for ordinary grades again moved higher in the wake of renewed interest from buyers in the Far East again, bringing

More PET bottles were collected across Europe last year than during the year before, according to the organisation PET Container Recycling Europe (Petcore). The 2009 figures released by the group on Monday put the collection volume at 1.4m tonnes, and with that

Irish Minister for Environment John Gormley launched a consultation on his long-awaited waste policy late last week. An outgrowth of the international waste policy study released by the Department for Environment, Heritage and Local Government late last year, the policy

Three new waste to energy (wte) plants featuring technology from the Austrian Energy & Environment (AE&E) group will be built in the Far East, said AE&E's parent company A-Tec industries on Thursday. The plants had been ordered during the last quarter from