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The Waste management company has acquired Rømskog Industrial Park, strengthening its logistics and potentially creating more local job opportunities.

Andritz has received an order to supply a dry fiberboard recycling line to Sonae Arauco’s mill in Mangualde, Portugal.

The manufacturing sector is a huge contributor to waste in the UK, with the UK government estimating that in 2020, it generated around 40.4 million tonnes of commercial and industrial waste.

Veolia has expanded the solvent recovery capacity at its Garston, Liverpool, facility to 86,000 tonnes a year to meet the growing demand for more sustainable industrial products.

Steinert Splitcontrol, the latest add-on for Steinert eddy current separators, optimises the sorting quality of incineration bottom ash and additional fine-grain applications.

A new version of the Design for Recycling Guidelines for all plastic packaging streams was released by RecyClass.

In 2023, 35.8 million tons of ferrous slag were produced in the European Union and Great Britain.

In 2022, environmental tax revenue in the EU amounted to €317.2 billion (2.0% of the EU’s GDP) compared with €330.2 billion recorded in 2021, indicating a 4% decrease (-€13 billion).

BIR President Susie Burrage OBE has appointed Emmanuel Katrakis as the new Chair of the organization’s International Trade Council.

Stadler has designed and built a state-of-the-art light packaging sorting plant for public enterprise Vaersa in Alzira, Spain.

Hitachi Zosen Inova (HZI) announces the acquisition of Danish-based Babcock & Wilcox Renewable Service A/S (BWRS). The signing and closing both took place on 28 June 2024.