Business

• Reclassified non-ferrous “recycling materials” will still be subject to import quotas in China
• Multiple parties interested in acquiring Weser-Metall
• Sims begins move away from regional business structure
• Suez reports substantial one-off costs in H1 due to Covid-19
• AEB reaches deal with the city of Amsterdam and lending banks
• United Kingdom: Final consultation for Aire Valley waste to energy plant
• “Light at the end of the tunnel” as waste to energy market normalises
• Viridor achieves growth in 2019/20 financial year in run up to sale
• Viridor and Grundon seek permit for new EfW plant
• Carlos Slim boosts stake in FCC through debt cancellation
• Remondis, Sacyr and Veolia vie for Melbourne waste contract
• Slovenia: Saubermacher investing
• Umicore’s recycling activities beating expectations in the first half
• Italy: Recycling rate for packaging waste hits 70 per cent
• Plastic packaging producers sceptical about recyclate quotas
• Austria: Valmet to supply boiler for Norske Skog’s RDF power plant
• Swiss Vipa restarts activities on German recovered paper market

Markets

• Recovered paper in Italy
• Waste plastics in Germany
• PET bottles in Germany
• Material value index for fridges
• Primary plastics in Germany
• Non-ferrous scrap in Germany

Policy

• Latvian authorities uncover “illegal” UK waste shipment
• Denmark to slash wte capacity under green waste sector plan
• EU Packaging Directive revision proposal due out in Q2 of 2021
• EU releases draft Resolution on shipments of waste plastics
• Hardly any EU member states have implemented the WFD
• Taxonomy Regulation published in EU Official Journal

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