Sabine Hatzfeld

The waste management and recycling company in North West England has purchased its 30th vehicle within its fleet.

The Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon announced this afternoon her commitment to introduce a deposit in all beverage containers sold in Scotland, in an effort to cut down marine and street litter.

The Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries (ISRI) announced that ScrapTheftAlert.com is now available on the Law Enforcement Enterprise Portal (LEEP). LEEP's over 60,000 registered users in law enforcement, intelligence groups, and criminal justice now have access to the alert system, which assists in the fight against materials theft.

So far this year, business activity in the German aluminium sector has shown a largely positive trend. Aluminium producers (plus 5.7 per cent) and converters (plus three per cent) both increased production in the first half of 2017, although there was a slight decline (minus one per cent) in the production of semis.

ISRI released its comments to the WTO in response to China's notification of its intent to revise its Identification Standards for Solid Wastes General Rules.

During its summer 2017 Board and Governance Meetings, the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries (ISRI), elected three new directors to its board. The new Directors-At-Large, serving two-year terms ending in 2019, are David Borsuk of Sadoff Iron & Metal Company, Adam Dumes of Cohen Recycling, and Colin Kelly of Schnitzer Steel Industries.

World crude steel production for the 67 countries reporting to the World Steel Association (worldsteel) was 143.2 million tonnes (Mt) in July 2017, a 6.3% increase compared to July 2016.

The collection and recycling of waste PVC in the UK reached a new high of 120,392 tonnes in 2016, according to latest figures from Recovinyl, the PVC industry's recycling scheme.

EEW Energy from Waste (EEW) and AkzoNobel's Specialty Chemicals business agreed to extend their partnership for the supply of sustainable steam from EEW to the Chemical Park Delfzijl through to the year 2033. The new agreement was signed by both companies in Berlin today.

As of June 20, 2017, Hannes Vorderwinkler was appointed authorized representative and managing director under trade law; he is now in charge of the Austrian production plants at Starlinger & Co. GmbH.