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Text no.: 001 Issue RW03/2020 Publication date: 05.02.2020
Draft circular economy action plan calls
for EU to halve residual municipal waste
(EU) – For the EU, it is an economic and ecological imperative that Europe use resources more efficiently and raise the amount originating from recycling, according to a draft of the EU Commission’s new circular economy action plan.... more 
Text no.: 002 Issue RW03/2020 Publication date: 05.02.2020
Recycling firm PET to PET very satisfied with 2019
(A) – Austrian plastics recycler PET to PET Recycling Österreich GmbH once again recycled more PET bottles in 2019. The volume of PET material was more than 26,300 tonnes, representing an increase of 3 per cent compared to the... more
Text no.: 003 Issue RW03/2020 Publication date: 05.02.2020
Steinbeis acquires PET
recycler B+T Plastics
(D) – Germany’s Steinbeis Holding has acquired the PET recycler B+T Plastics GmbH from the Bohn waste management group, with effect from 1 January. The newly acquired firm, which also operates a counting centre for returned... more
Text no.: 004 Issue RW03/2020 Publication date: 05.02.2020
Dutch incineration tax pushes Renewi’s
London contract into the red
(NL, UK) – The British-Dutch waste management company Renewi has reclassified its contract with the East London Waste Authority as onerous due to the Netherlands’ new tax on wastes imported for incineration and the then-impending... more
Text no.: 005 Issue RW03/2020 Publication date: 05.02.2020
EPS producer Bewisynbra
creates recycling arm
(PT) – The Bewisynbra Group is set to collect and recycle fish boxes and other post-consumer expanded polystyrene (EPS) waste in Portugal. The Swedish EPS manufacturer announced in December that it had founded a company in Portugal and... more
Text no.: 006 Issue RW03/2020 Publication date: 05.02.2020
EEW begins construction on
new sewage sludge incinerator
(D) – EEW laid the corner stone for a new sewage sludge incineration plant in Helmstedt, Germany in late January. The facility will be able to incinerate 20 per cent of the sewage sludge generated in the Lower Saxony region once it starts... more
Text no.: 007 Issue RW03/2020 Publication date: 05.02.2020
Sulo acquires Swedish
company San Sac
(S, D) – The Swedish company San Sac passed into the ownership of the German waste collection container manufacturer Sulo at the end of last year. Sulo’s two shareholders Latour Capital and BPI acquired the group of companies, which... more
Text no.: 008 Issue RW03/2020 Publication date: 05.02.2020
Growth in total consumption continues to
outstrip uptake of secondary raw materials
(WW) – Worldwide raw materials consumption continues to rise sharply, outstripping gains in the use of secondary raw materials. According to the "Circularity Gap Report 2020", which was presented at the World Economic Forum in... more
Text no.: 009 Issue RW03/2020 Publication date: 05.02.2020
Planning permission granted
for 15MW Efw plant in Scotland
(UK) – Developers Doveryard Ltd. have received planning permission for an energy recovery facility they wish to build in Irvine, around 50 km southwest of Glasgow. It would be located on the Oldhall Industrial Estate, adjacent to a... more
Text no.: 010 Issue RW03/2020 Publication date: 05.02.2020
City of Amsterdam prepares to fully divest
waste to energy plant operator AEB
(NL) – Amsterdam’s municipal government wants to fully privatise the waste-to-energy (wte) plant operator Afval Energie Bedrijf (AEB) and will present its decision in principle to the city council in February. Amsterdam is planning... more
