Ann Kühlers

The European Commission will refer Greece to the European Court of Justice (ECJ) for failing to rehabilitate a landfill on the island of Zakynthos as previously ordered by the Court. While the landfill has not been operational for more than five years, it has been nearly a decade since the Court found that the landfill...

Metals recycler Sims Ltd. is expanding the review of its operations in the UK. Based on the initial results of an operational review that the US-Australian group launched this summer, Sims has decided to conduct a full strategic review of the business. The move had been motivated in part by "expressions of interest...

Chemicals group LyondellBasell announced on Monday that it will proceed with the construction of its first industrial-scale demonstration plant for catalytic advanced recycling using its "MoReTec" technology. The single-train chemical recycling facility is to process up to 50,000 tonnes of post-consumer plastic...

With representatives of the European Parliament and the Commission looking to wrap up their trilogue negotiations on the revised Waste Shipment Regulation (WSR) this week, associations representing the recycling and PVC manufacturing industries are calling on Brussels policy makers to reject proposed changes to the EU...

Suez UK announced on Wednesday that its is exploring a waste-to-LPG-substitute partnership together with Circular Fuels Limited, a cooperation between Dimeta and the gasification specialist KEW technology. Circular Fuels plans to build a facility in Teesside in the Northeast of England where it would process waste to...

The US plant engineering company Babcock & Wilcox (B&W) has announced a strategic realignment of its business in response to higher interest rates and reduced or delayed capital expenditures by its customers. The company plans to focus increasingly on after-market sales across all of its businesses, which include...

Svensk Plaståtervinning (Swedish Plastic Recycling) inaugurated the expansion of its waste plastics sorting facility in Motala, about 50 km west of Linköping, on Wednesday. The expanded plant, dubbed "Site Zero", is able to process up to 200,000 tonnes a year, or nearly twice as much as was possible when sorting...

The Dutch-English waste management group Renewi reported slightly lower revenues and earnings for its financial first half. With recyclate prices reverting to "more normalised levels" and non-hazardous waste volumes in the Benelux region mostly stabilised, revenue for the six-month period ended 30 September came in 2...

Norwegian sorting technology supplier Tomra has introduced a new product capable of simultaneously sorting plastic flakes by colour, polymer and transparency. According to the company, its Innosort Flake machine uses a combination of sensor technology, including near-infrared (NIR) spectrometry, to distinguish various...

FCC reported an increase in revenue from its waste management and environmental services business in the first three quarters of 2023. New contracts in its home market of Spain and the rapid growth in waste management activities in the US ensured that revenues in the Environment business area rose by just over 6 per...