Business

• Suez/Veolia: Paris court suspends "effects resulting from transactions"
• Suez prepares hazardous waste partnership with A2A
• Paprec signals interest in Veolia/Suez assets
• Viridor plans to sell its recycling operations
• Carbon capture and utilisation demonstrated at AVR plant
• EfW ash disposal buoys Augean amid Covid crisis
• New recycling facility for contaminated ferrous scrap
• Prezero buys stake in aluminium recycler Pyral
• Start up costs and challenging markets push EMR into the red
• EU ferrous scrap exports to Turkey surge in first half
• Scholz signs deal to found JV with China Hongqiao
• Chemical recycling: BASF investing €16m in tyre recycling at Pyrum
• LyondellBasell sets new goal for recycled plastic production
• Recycling costs for packaging expected to surge in Germany
• 91 per cent of scrap tyres in Europe managed in 2018
• BIR: Supply issues persist as second corona wave arrives

Markets

• Recovered paper in Poland
• Upcoming market reports
• Waste plastics in Germany
• PET bottles in Germany
• Index for fridges and freezers
• Primary PET in Germany
• Waste textiles in Germany
• NF scrap metals in Germany

Policy

• WEEE collection volumes stagnate in Europe
• Commission launches consultation on Packaging Directive
• EU creates European Raw Materials Alliance
• EU agrees on threshold value for marine litter
• Netherlands plans deposit system for beverage cans
• Plastic drinks bottles: California sets ambitious new recycled content rules

• News in brief: Pollutec trade fair postponed to 2021
• Companies and institutions appearing in the current issue