Business

• EP Committee votes in favour of banning addition single-use plastic products
• Recycling and waste associations welcome vote on Directive
• No earn-out payment for Scholz bondholders for 2017
• S Norton boosts pre-tax profit by 7 per cent for 2017
• Saubermacher opens fridge recycling plant in Czech Republic
• Schnitzer Steel expects earnings bump in fourth quarter
• Befesa enters Chinese market for EAF dust recycling
• Creditors give Recylex financial leeway to solve furnace problems
• Steinmüller Babcock updating an EfW facility in Sweden
• China, Brexit impacts and plastic bans discussed at BIR Convention
• Recovered paper exports from the EU plunge in the first half
• Trade groups should educate banking sector about recycling
• Reiling breaks ground on new location in Germany
• World waste plastics market struggling to find its feet
• OMV turning plastic waste into synthetic crude oil
• Over half of EU waste plastic exports shipped to new markets
• BIR launches foundation in support of Global Recycling Day
• British consumers want recycled content in plastic bottles
• Bulgarian textiles association sounds warning on planned eco-tax
• Augean benefits from cost-cutting and incinerator ash business
• Stora Enso and Gasum to build biogas plant in Nymölla
• Study on measures for improved collection and recycling of WEEE

Markets

• China’s recovered paper import licenses hit 16m tonnes
• Recovered paper in Germany
• Recovered paper in Poland
• Waste textiles in Germany
• Global stainless steel output climbs 13 per cent in first half
• NF scrap metals in Germany
• LME and Comex prices

Policy

• Commission stands firm on target for single-use bottles
• EU accelerates work on single-use plastics Directive
• ECHA consultation on possible additions to Authorisation List
• Numerous member states fail to achieve EU ELV targets

Events

• Events

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