Posts Tagged ‘recycling’
1 February 2012
UK plastic recycling specialist WRAP has provided a £1.15m loan to ECO Plastics for the expansion of a facility in Lincolnshire, North East England.
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21 December 2011
Sustainability is increasingly featuring on the corporate agenda, opening up opportunities for innovative products to enter the supply chain of major companies.
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19 December 2011
Plastic recycling business MBA Polymers has appointed Nigel Hunton as CEO as the company looks to expand its market presence.
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13 December 2011
UK waste management company Shanks has opened a mechanical biological treatment (MBT) plant in Carlisle, North West England.
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5 December 2011
A zinc recycling company told NewNet that it aims to become the most sustainable company operating in this space but that loyal institutional shareholders have become central to it achieving its aims.
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21 November 2011
Recycling and waste-to-energy is becoming an important driver in the cleantech revolution, with landfill sites fast becoming a thing of the past across Europe.
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31 October 2011
A UK-based waste management consultancy has identified a capacity gap in the amount of residual waste treated in the country (excluding Northern Ireland) of 22.3 million tonnes.
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14 October 2011
Waste Management has made strategic investment in Recycle Rewards, in a move that brings together Waste Management’s curbside collection infrastructure — the largest in the US — with Recyclebank’s online community and incentive platform.
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13 October 2011
US company Waste Management has taken a stake in waste-to-gas specialist InEnTec by exchanging its equity interest in S4 Energy Solutions for an equity position in InEnTec.
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12 October 2011
As countries strive to cut emissions and reduce pollution the way that waste is managed is becoming an increasingly important issue.
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19 September 2011
A campaign launched in the UK to change the way that local authorities recycle has been granted a Judicial Review regarding the Department of Food and Rural Affairs interpretation of the EU’s Waste Framework Directive.
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14 September 2011
There is a strong economic case to be made for industrial recycling that UK businesses are starting to take advantage of, according to a Swedish systems developer.
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7 September 2011
UK green investment manager Foresight Group is looking to invest £70m in the UK waste sector via its Foresight Environmental Fund. The fund includes a £35m commitment from the London Green Fund with a focus on funding low carbon waste and recycling infrastructure within the capital, the fund is aimed at increasing capacity for reprocessing[...]
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1 August 2011
Waste management specialist Organic Recycling told NewNet it was looking to attract investors for a £20m anaerobic digestion plant in Lincolnshire, UK.
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22 July 2011
Private equity capital commitments show no sign of slowing down ahead of the usual August low with activity remaining high this week.
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21 July 2011
A UK-based recycling fund has delivered total returns in excess of 40 per cent and said it sees a strong pipeline of further investment opportunities in the waste and energy sectors.
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19 July 2011
UK recycling business ECO Plastics has raised £24m to finance expansion plans at a facility in Hemswell, North East England.
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13 July 2011
Keating Capital, a pre-IPO fund that holds a number of cleantech businesses within its portfolio, has made $86.8m in a public offering and will now progress its plans to list on Nasdaq.
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15 June 2011
Private equity firm Foresight Group is targeting waste and recycling investments in the UK capital through its Foresight Environmental Fund, which secured a £35m contribution from the Mayoral London Green Fund earlier this year.
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7 June 2011
Finnish waste-to-energy producer Metso is to acquire the technology of Swiss Holzmag, strengthening its position in the solid waste market.
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