11.07.2019 − Remondis will not be permitted to acquire the DSD Green Dot system, the Bundeskartellamt announced on Thursday morning. The decision of the German competition authority was expected.» more

27.06.2019 − The anti-trust review of Remondis’ proposed takeover of the German Green Dot company Duales System Deutschland will go into extra time. » more

25.06.2019 − China plans to allow only 240,429 tonnes of copper scrap imports in the third quarter of 2019, according to the Bureau of International Recycling (BIR). The recycling industry association cites a list of import licences...» more

19.06.2019 − European recyclers are increasingly struggling to find treatment and disposal capacities for the final waste arising in their processes. » more

13.06.2019 − Aurubis has pulled the plug on its internal investment project "Future Complex Metallurgy". The group explained the move saying that the project would entail "significantly higher investment costs than initially...» more

05.06.2019 − Environmental services provider Suez has announced plans to build a plastics recycling plant near Bangkok. According to Suez's Tuesday announcement, the plant is to process around 30,000 tonnes of locally collected...» more

05.06.2019 − Orders were placed for more new waste combustion capacity in 2018 that ever before, thanks largely to the boom on the Chinese waste-to-energy (wte) market. According to the latest edition of the wte market study...» more

03.06.2019 − Suez has begun delivering waste management services in Greater Manchester under new contracts announced by the group last Thursday. Valued at over £1bn (ca. €1.13bn), the contracts with the Greater Manchester Combined...» more

23.05.2019 − The Dutch-British waste management group Renewi has slipped deeper into the red due to non-trading and exceptional items.» more

23.05.2019 − German copper producer Aurubis is expanding its recycling activities. On Wednesday, the company announced plans to acquire full ownership of the Belgian-Spanish Metallo Group.» more

22.05.2019 − The Federation of Waste Management and Environmental Services (FEAD) has criticised the resolutions on waste plastics adopted by the parties to the Basel Convention in Geneva earlier this month.» more

21.05.2019 − The Bureau of International Recycling (BIR) has elected William "Tom" Bird of China's Chiho Environmental Group to be its new president.» more

16.05.2019 − The Recylex group has yet to find a solution to the financial problems facing its German subgroup which include its lead-acid battery recycling and lead production activities. However, the company’s creditors have...» more

14.05.2019 − A German subsidiary of French environmental services group Suez commissioned a new sorting plant for household packaging waste in Ölbronn in south-western Germany at the start of May. » more

09.05.2019 − The European Commission has no competition concerns regarding the investment company DIF Management's plans to acquire a stake in the company owning the waste to energy plant in Dublin. According to the EU authority,...» more

07.05.2019 − The Austrian company eWaste Umweltconsulting GmbH wants to advise the Chinese state-owned company CEHL on potential investment opportunities on the European waste market. » more

02.05.2019 − Veolia closed the first quarter of 2019 with improved sales and earnings. Growth in the group's waste management activities was particularly strong at almost 8 per cent.» more

25.04.2019 − The owner of German beer maker Bitburger plans to purchase a 45 per cent stake in the waste oil recycler Avista Oil AG. At the same time, Germany’s richest woman, the BMW heiress Susanne Klatten, was increasing her...» more

23.04.2019 − The mood on Germany’s ferrous scrap market is rather gloomy at the moment. "In almost all steel processing industries there is a perceptible economic slump, sometimes less substantial, sometimes more. The only ray of...» more

17.04.2019 − The US market leader Waste Management Inc. plans to take over its competitor Advanced Disposal, the fourth largest waste firm in the United States. » more

15.04.2019 − The German Federal Cartel Office is minded to prohibit Remondis' planned takeover of the Green Dot company DSD. The parties to the deal were informed today and will now have two weeks in which to respond to the draft...» more

11.04.2019 − ELG fell well short of its earnings forecast in 2018. The stainless steel recycler, which operates at 53 locations worldwide, saw sales revenues rise by 7 per cent €1.81bn due to higher average commodity prices.» more

10.04.2019 − The international recycling group Sims Metal Management has revealed its multi-year strategic growth plan for the period up to 2025. The company wants to further expand its existing ferrous and non-ferrous metals and...» more

08.04.2019 − The US company Schnitzer Steel has ended the first half of its 2018/19 business year with substantially lower earnings. The operating result for the period between September and February stood at just under $60m, some...» more

04.04.2019 − E-waste recyclers are increasingly confronted with fires caused by defective high-energy batteries, in particular lithium batteries. However, the majority of the companies is not able to offset the resulting higher...» more

03.04.2019 − The waste management company FCC Environment and the Danish investment company Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP) have announced plans to go ahead with a £480m (ca. €560m) waste to energy plant to be built in...» more

27.03.2019 − Four international consumer goods companies have joined forces to improve the collection and recycling of plastic waste in sub-Saharan Africa.» more

25.03.2019 − Enviroserve has officially opened a recycling plant for waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) in Dubai. The new plant has a treatment capacity of 39,000 tonnes of e-scrap a year and can process all kinds of...» more

21.03.2019 − The plant engineering company CNIM saw its environment division close out the 2018 year with growth in revenues, order intake and order backlog. In the announcement of its financial figures for the year, the French...» more

20.03.2019 − The environmental services company Veolia and the food and beverage group Nestlé want to cooperate more closely in the collection, sorting and recycling of plastic waste. Plastic packaging is to be the focus of the...» more