Business

• Stricter EU regulations on exports of plastic waste in effect since the start of the year
• Veolia publishes draft offer proposal for outstanding Suez shares
• Derichebourg unveils plans to acquire metals recycler Ecore
• Suez to found carbon capture joint venture with Fermentalg
• Remondis 2019 revenues nearly flat due to weak scrap metal demand
• First Sentier plans to take over Wheelabrator’s UK wte business
• Cornerstone set for new waste to energy plant in Gdansk
• Strabag builds new Kebag wte plant in Zuchwil, Switzerland
• HZI supplies wte plant for SSE and CIP in England
• Reconomy buys Reverse Logistics Group and Waste Source
• Paprec brings sorting plant for packaging waste into operation
• Packaging firm Færch sold to A.P. Møller Holding
• Plastics sorters in Czech Republic concerned about new waste law
• Collection of household plastic waste up 2 per cent in the UK
• Stadler supplies automated waste sorting plant to Mexico
• Indaver and Ineos Styrolutionteam up for research project
• Steve Wong on prospects for plastic recycling in 2021
• Milliken signs on to plastic sorting initiative HolyGrail 2.0
• Veolia opens UK waste wood plant, launches project for rotor blades
• Geminor wants to expand recovered paper activities
• European recovery network for large lithium-ion batteries

Markets

• Waste plastics in Germany
• PET bottles in Germany
• Primary plastics in Germany
• Fridge material value index
• Steel scrap in Germany
• NF scrap metals in Germany
• Umicore raises guidance for full year 2020 earnings
• Upcoming market reports

Policy

• EU environment ministers agree position on new CEAP
• English RDF exports plunged by more than one third
• Council / Parliament deal blocks EU funding for waste to energy

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