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WEEE treatment becomes more expensive in Germany as scrap metal prices plunge

(D) – The steep drop in steel scrap prices in September and October has also made business considerably more difficult for recyclers of waste electrical...

Companies and institutions appearing in the current issue

Alba SE 6Alliance to End Plastic Waste (AEPW) 5 A. Mäteling 12 Andusia 4 Astaldi 15 Avfall Sverige 15 BIR (Bureau of International Recycling) 3, 4, 5...

BIR brings communicating recycling’s role to the fore

(WW) – In laying out his objectives for his term at the head of the Bureau of International Recycling (BIR), the organisation’s president Tom Bird...

EU steel demand forecast to rise in 2020 after 2019 decline

(EU) – Steel demand in Europe is expected to fall by 1.2 per cent year-on-year in 2019 to 166.8 million tonnes this year, according to forecasts by the...

Upcoming EUWID market reports in the next issue

The next issue of EUWID Recycling and Waste Management appears on 13 November. It will contain the reports on waste plastics and post-consumer PET bottle...

Pessimism about British recovered paper market

(UK) – The unfavourable economic climate and limited export opportunities knocked the British recovered paper market for six in October. Just a few grades...

Licences for RCP deliveries to China 2019

Further earnings warning from Sims Metal Management

(AUS) – Sims Metal Management expects to close the first half of its current financial year with an underlying loss at the earnings before interest and tax...

Sentiment in the wte sector reaches all-time high

(WW) – The waste to energy market is booming, according to a new study. The annual business climate index compiled by the consulting firm Ecoprog with...

EU consultation on steps to fight environmental crime

(EU) – The European Commission wants to review the effectiveness of the Environmental Crime Directive and has launched a public consultation soliciting...

Sweden plans to begin taxing waste incineration next year

(SE) – Sweden intends to introduce a waste incineration tax beginning April 2020. According to the Swedish Ministry of Finance, the proposal would see a...

No agreement reached on EU’s multi-annual financial framework at Council summit

(EU) – The heads of the EU member states failed to reach a major breakthrough in talks about the Union’s long-term budget during their meeting in...

The non-ferrous scrap metals market for Germany

(D) – The copper price on the LME trended sideways last week. Copper scrap prices remained unchanged on the German market. In the case of zinc scrap, the...

Company News: Drekopf acquires recovered paper traders

The recycling company Drekopf group has acquired fellow German recovered paper specialists Rohde-Recycling and A. Mäteling. The purchase is retroactive to...

Primary commodity plastics: demand in Germany still calm amid abundant supply

(D) – In October, demand for primary standard commodity plastics was not any better in Germany than in September. Converters were uncertain over future...

Recovered paper prices in France heading lower

(F) – Prices remained under considerable pressure on the French recovered paper market in October. That pressure manifested itself in another round of...

China grants new import quotas for scrap metal

(PRC) – In mid-october, the China Solid Waste and Chemicals Management Center released a new batch of licences for several secondary raw materials subject...

Company News: Ecoplast opens new recycling line for PE film

The Austrian plastics recycler Ecoplast opened its new recycling line for polyethylene film scrap in Wildon at the beginning of October. The €10m project...

Indaver to build demo chemical recycling plant in Antwerp

(B) – The Belgian waste company Indaver has received a permit to build a new chemical recycling plant for waste plastics. The "Plastics2chemicals" (P2C)...

Chemical recycling of waste plastics is "unavoidable"

(WW) – The development of chemical recycling technology "needs time", perhaps more than ten years until it is commercially viable, but "it is unavoidable...

Negative prices for waste drinks cartons in Central Europe

(CZ) – Managing post-consumer beverage cartons has become a struggle for waste management companies in Central Europe, Martin Soth of Pieringer Abfall...

Solutions to surplus supply out of reach for recovered paper market

(WW) – Two years after China’s policy changes gripped markets for secondary raw materials, the European recovered paper sector faces a structural...

Andusia predicts Dutch tax will lead to hikes in cost of landfill

(UK) – The British refuse-derived fuels (RDF) specialist Andusia is warning waste producers that they need to be prepared to bear some of the financial...

European Metal Recycling posts a larger net profit

(UK) – The market climate for ferrous and non-ferrous scrap metal recyclers worsened in 2018. Despite this turn of events, the British group European Metal...

UK Environment Bill to pave the way for waste system revamp

Environment Bill to pave way for UK waste system revamp

(UK) – The UK’s Conservative government has introduced its long-promised "Environment Bill" with a wide range of measures in various areas including waste...

"Strong year" for Stena Metall’s recycling business

Despite difficult market conditions, Stena Metall reports "strong year" for recycling activities

(SE) – In a difficult market environment, the Swedish group Stena Metall was able to increase its annual sales and profit. It was a "strong year" for the...

EU Commission approves state aid for Gdańsk waste plant

EU Commission approves state aid for Gdansk waste plant

(PL) – The European Commission has raised no objections to state aid for the waste to energy plant in Gdansk, Poland. The €60m aid "will contribute to the...

German steel scrap prices continue plunge on weak demand from mills

Ferrous scrap prices continue to dive amid weak demand

(D) – The downward slide in steel scrap prices in Germany continued unchecked in October. For the second month in a row, scrap traders were forced to...

LyondellBasell builds pilot chemical recycling plant

LyondellBasell builds pilot chemical recycling plant

(I) – Plastics group LyondellBasell will build a small-scale pilot "molecular recycling" plant in Ferrara, Italy in a step towards converting difficult to...

Total to double PP recycling capacity in order to supply automotive industry

Total to double Synova’s PP recycling capacity

(F) – The French group Total has decided to double the production capacity of its subsidiary Synova in response to growing demand for high-performance...

Remondis and Neste to cooperate on chemical plastics recycling

Neste cooperates with Remondis and Borealis on chemical recycling and bioplastics

(FI) – The Finnish oil and chemicals concern Neste has announced new cooperations with partners from the waste management and plastics industries. The...

Waste plastic exports from the EU fall by a further 20 per cent in the first half of 2019

(EU) – EU member states are exporting less and less plastic waste to countries outside the EU. According to recently released Eurostat figures, exports to...

Hungarian mills suspend recovered paper imports

(H) – Hungarian papermakers have stopped importing recovered paper, faced with falling demand for their own products, Jeffery D. Kimball of Loacker...

Regional capacity bottlenecks for waste wood recovery in Germany

(D) – The market for waste wood in Germany has seen differing trends from region to region since the summer. The overall picture has become more complex....

Alba becomes majority shareholder in Italian WEEE recovery system Remedia TSR

(D, I) – The German waste management group Alba is further expanding its e-waste collection and recovery business in Italy. Alba subsidiary Interseroh...

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