Business

• Recylex: unfavourable conditions and falling prices make a dent in sales in 2019
• Derichebourg: metal volumes down in the recycling business
• Aurubis reports lower earnings good scrap copper price trend
• Exports of RDF from England recede again in 2019
• Covanta, GIG and Biffa reach financial close on UK wte plant
• EEW to expand sewage sludge treatment in the Netherlands
• Geminor exporting A IV waste wood and fly ash to Germany
• Aldi trialling refillable glass bottles for beer in select German stores
• Biffa continues to invest in plastics recycling
• Commission probes tax treatment of Renewi activities in Belgium
• EuPC survey reveals that problems remain for recyclers
• Wheelabrator’s Parc Adfer plant begins commercial operation
• Recoup: quality of collected plastic becomes major concern
• Smurfit Kappa Germany wants to launch packaging EPR scheme
• China release third batch of import licences for recyclables
• Umicore achieves growth in sales and earnings in recycling division

Markets

• Coronavirus challenges Chinese paper industry
• Chinese recovered paper import figures for 2019
• Recovered paper in Germany
• Waste textiles in Germany
• NF scrap metals in Germany
• Upcoming EUWID market reports in the next issue

Policy

• EP rejects attempt to weaken lead limits for recycled PVC
• France adopts new anti-waste and circular economy law
• More than €100m EU support for waste plants in Poland
• No commitment to policy alignment in UK’s new Environment Bill
• Danish ban on thin-walled plastic carrier bags to begin in 2021
• Seven new yards added to list of EU ship recycling list
• TiO2 classification as suspected carcinogen can proceed

• Companies and institutions appearing in the current issue