Business

• Stainless steel recycler ELG reports strong growth in sales and earnings in 2017
• Metals recycler Scholz increases sales and volumes in 2017
• AVR expects big drop in UK waste imports post-Brexit
• AVR reports steady earnings on lower revenues
• Alba cooperates with Italian WEEE take-back system
• Dalkia now owns 100 per cent of wte plant operator Tiru
• EEW’s 2017 revenues rise by 3 per cent to reach €541m
• Remondis acquires Dutch waste management firm
• Suez awarded €80m contract for Ardèche RDF processing plant
• City of London extends waste contract with Cory Riverside
• Costs climb again for B&W’s troubled plant projects
• LafargeHolcim co-combusted 10m tonnes of waste in 2017
• Beverage carton manufacturers build recycling plant in Germany
• Car dismantling market: spare parts creating opportunities
• Müller buys British plastic bottle plants from Nampak
• Chinese RCP import licenses near 10 million tonnes
• Recovered paper quality the hot topic at international conference
• Soex opens new sorting plant for waste textiles in the UAE
• CEPI renews criticism of co-mingled RCP collections

Markets

• Eurostat waste plastics data
• Recovered paper in Germany
• UK Recycling Association CEO: "We are at mid-crisis"
• British recovered paper exports down 4 per cent in 2017
• Recovered paper in Poland
• EUWID index for fridges
• Waste textiles in Germany
• Global steel production continues to climb
• NF scrap metals in Germany
• Steel scrap market report
• LME and Comex prices

Policy

• Barnier: environment standards must be maintained post-Brexit
• EU Parliament draws up draft report on plastics strategy
• Chinese customs reject US recovered paper shipment
• New EU Commission guidance on classification of waste
• UK shipbreakers off limits to EU-flagged ships after Brexit

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