Pascal Hugo

The German market for the incineration of commercial and industrial (C&I) waste is calm and balanced. There are no signs of the nearly crisis-level bottlenecks seen last year, when bunkers at the waste-to-energy (wte) plants were overflowing and waste management companies and skip hire firms had full yards because...

EU member states should not grant any financial support to the production of renewable energy produced from waste incineration if separate collection obligations established under the Waste Framework Directive have not been complied with. The members of the European Parliament's Committee on Industry, Research and...

The Environment Council wants to add waste incineration to the European emissions trading scheme (ETS). The common position reached by the EU environment ministers would include the technology starting in 2031. Industry observers and stakeholder representatives had widely expected this move. In preparation for the...

 Werner & Mertz, the German company that produces eco-friendly "Frosch" cleaning products, has been openly critical of the viability of chemical recycling processes for plastic waste. In a PR interview published on the company’s website at the end of April, the firm’s head of Public Affairs Timothy Glaz says he...

The planned refuse-derived fuel (RDF) power plant in Jänschwalde near the city of Cottbus in eastern Germany was granted an environmental permit in late April. The favourable outcome of the permitting process was announced by the companies behind the project, the waste management group Veolia and the power plant...

Waste-to-energy plant operator EEW is participating in a major carbon capture and utilisation (CCU) project in the north of the Netherlands. The company wants to capture CO2 at its waste to energy (wte) plant in Delfzijl, which it will then make available for the production of methanol, according to a joint press...

Environmental services group Veolia takes a very critical view of chemical recycling of plastic waste and has no plans to pursue pyrolysis technology. Speaking at a waste and resources conference in Kassel, Germany, Veolia’s Markus Binding said the group would concentrate on processing and supplying input material but...