Business

• Veolia posts higher revenues for waste management division in first half of 2017
• Incinerator contract award in Gdansk contested
• Paprec takes over Delta Recyclage
• Veolia plans to buy Eurologistik and Hans Andersson Group
• Suez posts organic growth for waste management business
• Waste Management Inc. reports increase in revenues and earnings
• Andritz Mewa starts up new fridge recycling plant in the UK
• Changes at the top of Sims Metal Management
• Antaike predicts limited impact on Chinese copper market from ban
• Federec: “dramatic measures” needed in wake of Chinese ban
• German association bvse sees chances for plastics recyclers
• Only 9 per cent of plastics produced to date were recycled
• Companies and institutions appearing in the current issue
• Switzerland: approximately half of end-of-life vehicles recycled in the year 2016

Markets

• Recovered paper in Poland
• Recovered paper in Italy
• Waste wood in Germany
• Used PET bottles in Germany
• Waste plastics in Germany
• Primary plastics in Germany
• WEEE management in Germany
• NF scrap metals in Germany
• LME and Comex prices

Policy

• Austria plans to ban all free single-use plastic bags
• Chinese State Council approves action plan targeting waste imports

Events

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