19.07.2019 − The Dutch Morssinkhof-Rymoplast group will build a PET recycling plant in Markranstädt near Leipzig in the East of Germany. » more

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