C&I waste

The Association of Thermal Waste Treatment Plants in Germany (ITAD) and the energy recovery section of the Dutch Waste Management Association (DWMA) have entered into a "structural partnership" agreement which covers "all matters relating to the thermal treatment of municipal waste and similar commercial waste", the...

In 2020, the EU-27 cement industry met around 52 per cent of the thermal energy it required using alternative fuels, first and foremost refuse-derived fuels (RDF). While this is certainly a positive development, there is more, untapped potential in this area. In fact, the German consultancy firm MVW Lechtenberg &...

Dutch waste management company Renewi has announced that Bruno Bruins is to become its Chief Strategy Officer (CSO), effective 1 May 2024. As CSO, he is to be responsible for helping to shape and deliver Renewi's strategy and for leading innovation, sustainability and relations with local, national, and European...

In addition to presenting its financial figures last Thursday, environmental services group Veolia also revealed its new strategy for the period until 2027. Entitled "GreenUp," the strategy aims to accelerate growth in three business areas: treatment of hazardous waste, technologies for the water sector, and bioenergy,...

Boosted by particularly strong fourth quarter performance, the US market leader Waste Management Inc. (WM) posted consolidated revenue of $20.43bn (ca €19bn) for 2023, an increase of around 4 per cent year-over-year. CEO Jim Fish noted that the "remarkably strong finish to 2023" had led to operating earnings before...

Renewi, the Benelux region's waste management market leader, saw performance in the third quarter of its 2024 financial year affected by the overall state of the economy. Although it continued to predict an improvement in performance in the second half of its business year, the group's board said on 30 January that it...

Biffa achieved solid revenue growth in its 2022/23 business year, building on the "strong trajectory" of the prior year, according to the strategic report and financial accounts which the UK's second largest waste management company submitted to Companies House. Statutory revenues increased by 16 per cent to £1.68bn...

Dutch waste management firm AVR has provided an update on the status of its operations following last September's devastating fire at its Rozenburg site. The blaze destroyed the power plant section of the waste-to-energy (wte) facility, which, when operational, has the capacity to process around 1.3 million tonnes of...

French environmental group Suez has acquired the British waste management and recycling firm F&R Cawley Ltd. in December, thereby entering the UK market for the collection and recycling of lithium-ion batteries (LIB) from electric vehicles. Suez did not provide any information about the purchase price in its...

Sufficient waste volumes are currently available on the market and German waste-to-energy (wte) plants do not appear to be concerned about shortfalls this winter. There were only very rare gaps in supply, so there are a few spot-market offers to treat commercial waste for €80 per tonne. Overall, however, the gate fees...

Waste is a cross-border business, not limited to brisk international trade in "green listed" recyclable materials, such as recovered paper, waste plastics and scrap metals. A glance at statistics covering transfrontier shipments of other wastes, both hazardous and non-hazardous, reveals sharp growth in notified...

British waste to energy (wte) plant operator Encylis announced on Tuesday that construction of a new waste to energy plant in Walsall, West Midlands, can proceed early in the next year now that financial close on the project has been reached. The Swiss plant engineering company Hitachi Zosen Inova (HZI) has been...

Waste to energy (wte) plant operator Cory has announced that it now plans to work with a British carbon capture and storage network, Viking CCS, to explore the transport and sequestration of the CO2 emissions from its waste incineration activities in South London. The company has one major operational waste...

British waste to energy (wte) plant operator Enfinium announced on Monday that it plans to invest up to £800m (ca. €933m) for carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology at the Ferrybridge multifuel plants in West Yorkshire. The system would be operational from 2030 and capture 1.2 million tonnes of carbon dioxide from...

The companies Aker Carbon Capture and Aker Solutions announced on Monday that they have signed a front-end engineering (FEED) contract for a carbon capture system to be built at a waste-to-energy (wte) facility near Oslo, Norway. The Klemetsrud plant has a permitted capacity of 350,000 tonnes of waste per year and the...