Business

• South-East Asian nations impose restrictions and barriers on imports of waste materials
• Trade conflicts threaten international recycling markets
• Cory Riverside sold off to new group of financial investors
• CCIC NA resumes inspections of recyclables shipments to China
• Interserve investigated in connection to EfW market exit
• RDF interest group warns of Brexit risks to British exports to the EU
• EU Commission greenlights Attero take-over
• N+P supplying RDF to Simec Energy power station near Newport
• Remondis acquires Ad Infinitum Recycling and Ragn-Sells Polska
• CMA finds UK competition reduced by EMR/MWR merger
• EuRIC welcomes final adoption of waste package
• Derichebourg’s recycling activities post growth in first half of fiscal year
• German packaging compliance scheme ELS files for insolvency
• Paprec buys stake in plant operator
• Danish tyre recycler Genan “out of crisis” after good 2017
• World Biogas Association puts out new city food waste report
• Ellen MacArthur Foundation unveils circular economy vision for consumer electronics

Markets

• Recovered paper in Poland
• Smurfit Kappa Group to take over Parenco and Reparco
• Material value of fridges
• Waste textiles in Germany
• Waste plastics in Germany
• Expert reports on waste plastics
• PET bottles in Germany
• PlasticsEurope: "Plastic product bans are not the solution"
• Capacity utilisation rates at steel mills on the rise
• NF scrap metals in Germany
• LME and Comex prices

Policy

• EU plastic “contribution” defended at EP Committee meeting
• India to ban all single-use plastic articles by 2022
• Poland clamps down on illegal waste operations
• European Commission takes action against Slovenia and Spain
• Spain adopts law on plastic carrier bag charges

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