Business

• Veolia plans to generate €1bn in annual revenues through plastics recycling by 2025
• ACE to collect paper cups with drinks cartons under new deal
• Irish One51 reports receiving preliminary purchase offer
• PandaGreen acquires WSR Recycling
• EMR posts statutory loss in the hundreds of millions of pounds
• Call for EU to approve food contact recycling processes
• Suez and Itochu awarded contract for wte facility in Belgrade
• Swiss PET recycler Poly Recycling sold to Resilux
• Safety concerns halt building at three B&W projects in UK
• Germany exceeds more ambitious EU scrap vehicle targets in 2015
• Enerkem starts production of waste-based cellulosic ethanol

Markets

• Recovered paper in Germany
• Recovered paper in the UK
• Recovered paper in Poland
• EU recovered paper exports
• Waste textiles in Germany
• NF scrap metals in Germany
• LME and Comex prices

Policy

• Recycling rates for e-scrap remain high in the EU in 2015
• Warning on landfills for Spain, on plastic bags for two others
• EU countries achieve only limited progress in WEEE collection
• €222m for LIFE projects for environment and climate action
• EU, US and others question China on import ban at WTO
• Italian authorities uncover hazardous waste traffickers

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