Business

• EU Commissioner Sinkevicius announces restrictions on trans-border waste shipments
• NGOs call for complete stop to EU waste plastics exports
• Prezero buys majority stake in film recycler KBG Group
• Packaging group Alpla expands recycling activities in Europe
• Alcala and Fiera Infrastructure outbid MSIP for Augean
• European PE film recycling capacity up 10 per cent
• PepsiCo: 100 per cent rPET bottles in Germany
• Scholz to join new ELV recycling partnership in China
• Forty per cent of EU waste plastic exports headed to Turkey in H1
• Umicore appeals stricter emission rules for its Hoboken lead smelter

Markets

• The recovered paper market in France
• The recovered paper market in Italy
• The waste plastics market in Germany
• The post-consumer PET bottles market in Germany
• The EUWID material value index for end-of-life fridges and freezers
• The primary commodity plastics market in Germany
• The non-ferrous scrap metals market in Germany

Policy

• EU Parliament Committee calls for weight-based landfill caps
• Croatia too slow to implement court-ordered landfill clean-up

• Upcoming market reports
• News in brief: EU consultation on data on cigarette filter waste
• Companies and institutions appearing in the current issue