Business

• New EU Circular Economy Action Plan places the emphasis on product policy
• Recycling industry welcomes EU Circular Economy Action Plan
• FEAD: “Recycling markets must remain open and competitive”
• European Plastics Pact launched
• Coca-Cola: 100 per cent recycled PET in Sweden
• EuPC decides not to sign European Plastics Pact
• Industry associations criticise planned EU “plastic levy”
• Borealis embraces the circular economy in new group strategy
• FCC’s environment division boosts both profits and earnings in 2019
• New bottle and can sorting plant in Denmark
• Chemical recycling: Versalis opts for pyrolysis method
• New owners for the German plastics processor Wela Plast
• EEW revenues inch higher in 2018
• HZI supplying technology for Zuchwil waste-to-energy plant
• Rafael Suchan new CEO of Scholz and Chiho
• ARN sells PST plant in Tiel to Remondis subsidiary
• Metallo takeover: Aurubis ready to make concessions
• Befesa: investment in growth and weaker results in 2019
• EU steel scrap exports hit new record in 2019
• China releases fourth batch of 2020 waste import licences

Markets

• Primary PET in Germany
• Recovered paper in Germany
• NF scrap metals in Germany

Policy

• EU Commission plans limits on waste exports to third countries
• Plans to expand EU recycled content rules for plastic products
• Initiatives to address substances of concern in waste
• UK to impose £200/t tax on plastic packaging
• Plastic straw, stirrer and cotton bud ban before UK Parliament

Events

• IFAT Munich rescheduled for September

• People: Siegfried Scholz succeeds Edmund Fleck as Eswet President
• Companies and institutions appearing in the current issue