Business

• European Commission publishes guidance on transfrontier waste shipments within the EU
• Biffa expects “significant disruption” due to coronavirus
• Suez intensifies cost cutting and “constrains” investment
• Renewi forecasts 2019/20 earnings in line with forecast
• Coronavirus crisis: ACR+ gathers international waste management practice
• German lead scrap consumer Weser-Metall halts production
• Sims Metal Management withdraws earnings forecast
• TSR gets EU clearance to acquire Sims activities
• Remondis/DSD aquisition: Competition body submits market share calculation
• Stainless steel recycler ELG could be sold
• Viridor to be taken over by private equity firm KKR
• Associations call on EU to divert more waste from landfill
• China Everbright posts another year of strong growth in 2019
• Circular Economy Action Plan: "The most ambitious proposal ever presented"
• EPRC and CEPI call for RCP collection to be maintained
• India overtakes China as EU’s leading RCP export market
• EASAC calls for more action to combat “plastic crisis”

Markets

• Forty per cent of RCP sorting plants in France are closed
• Recovered paper in France
• New recovered paper grade in EUWID Price Watch Italy
• Recovered paper in Italy
• Recovered paper in the UK
• Waste plastics in Germany
• Primary plastics in Germany
• Used PET bottles in Germany
• Steel scrap in Germany
• NF scrap metals in Germany
• Upcoming market reports

Policy

• Collection rates for spent portable batteries rising slowly across EU
• Sweden imposes tax on waste incineration on 1 April

• Message from EUWID
• Company news: MCAM acquires Swiss plastics recycler Minger Kunststofftechnik
• Company news: SL Recycling builds film recycling plant
• News in brief: Hydro announces temporary shutdown at two remelting plants
• News in brief: Stainless steel production reached 52 million tonnes
• News in brief: Umicore’s recycling plants remain up and running
• Companies and institutions appearing in the current issue