Biowaste

French environmental services concern Suez is working with the managers of Paris's Rungis wholesale food and horticultural market to expand waste sorting and recovery under a new contract valued at €31m. Although the contract will run for seven years, a number of key targets are to be achieved by 2025, among them...

Zurich-based Hitachi Zosen Inova AG (HZI) has acquired a 51 per cent stake in the Italian firm Schmack Biogas S.r.l. from the Italian energy firm PLC S.p.A. With this investment in a "leading player in the Italian biogas and biomethane industry,” HZI says it is "extending its European biogas and biomethane plant...

The members of the European Parliament adopted their first reading position on the proposed revision of the Waste Framework Directive (WFD) in Strasbourg on Wednesday afternoon. A broad majority of MEPs supported the draft legislation, with the final vote of 514 in favour, 20 against and 91 abstentions. The text...

Municipal solid waste (MSW) arisings in the 27 member states of the European Union were much lower in 2022 than they had been in 2021. However, the proportion of this waste that was recycled fell for the first time in almost 30 years. At the same time, the landfilling rate increased while the incineration rate stayed...

The European Parliament's Environment Committee voted yesterday on the EU Waste Framework Directive (WFD) and adopted numerous amendments to the original Commission proposal. They include more ambitious targets for food waste prevention as well as a broader scope and earlier entry into force of extended producer...

Last July, the European Commission presented a proposal for a "targeted amendment" the Waste Framework Directive (WFD), specifically adressing the textile and food waste streams. While the EU Parliament aims to hold a first reading vote in a plenary session prior to the end of its current term, the member state...

Ahead of binding EU reporting requirements, the German waste management company PreZero has issued its first sustainability report in December 2023. Read on to find out more about the volume of recycled materials Prezero processed in 2022, the size of its staff and the company's sustainability strategy....

Suez announced on Wednesday that it will provide composting services to Azura, a Franco-Moroccan fruit and vegetable producer. Under two new six-year contracts, the French environmental services company is to operate composting platforms processing organic waste generated by Azura's activities in the Agadir and Dakhla...

Vattenfall and Renewi have signed a new partnership agreement under which the Swedish energy company is to purchase more than 7.5 million m3/year of "green gas" produced by the Dutch waste management company. The biomethane or renewable natural gas (RNG) will be made from food waste and fed into the gas network,...

Members of the European Parliament's Environment Committee are working on the EU Commission's proposal for a targeted revision of the Waste Framework Directive (WFD). After Polish rapporteur Anna Zalewska published her draft report with an initial set of 139 amendments in mid-October, the Committee members held a...

The European Waste Management Association (FEAD) is concerned by attempts in the European Parliament to broaden the scope of the revision of the Waste Framework Directive (WFD). According to the umbrella organisation, which represents the interests of Europe's private sector waste management companies, a proposed...

Anna Zalewska, the European Parliament's rapporteur for the revision of the Waste Framework Directive (WFD) will present her draft report to the Environment Committee on Monday in which she proposes a wide range of changes to the European Commission's proposal. While many amendments put forward by the MEP from the...

Last week, the European Council approved two further pieces of legislation belonging to the EU’s "Fit for 55" package. In their meeting last week, the Environment Council adopted the revised Renewable Energy Directive (RED III) and a regulation on the ReFuelEU Aviation initiative, both of had already been formally...

German waste management company Remondis will continue to provide landfill services to the Australian Capital Territory for at least another five years, having secured a new contract with the territory government. According to Remondis, the contract covers general operations and landfill management services at Mugga...

The European Commission announced last week that it had approved a French aid programme for companies investing in the use of solid recovered fuels (SRF). The government plans to provide a total of €300m in direct subsidies in support of the transition to a net-zero economy. According to the Commission, the funds can...