| Brady, a global provider of trading, processing and risk management solutions for metals, recycling, energy and soft commodities, has acquired the assets and goodwill of the ScrapRunner product, from Enaptive Inc (“Scraprunner”). Enaptive is a US-based company providing dispatch systems designed specifically for the scrap metal and recycling industry markets.

| With the acquisition of the Dutch company AKG Kunststof Groep, a leading European recycling and polypropylene (PP) production company, Veolia confirms its ambition to further develop in the strategic circular economy sector.

| Trina Solar, SunPower, Solar Frontier, JinkoSolar, Conergy, aleo solar and Producer compliance and waste management scheme PV Cycle have expressed their concern about companies’ negligence to comply with legal requirements of EU-wide WEEE legislations.

| The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is proposing two new hazardous waste rules to strengthen environmental protection while reducing regulatory burden on businesses. One of the proposed rules will protect waterways, including drinking and surface water, by preventing the flushing of hazardous waste pharmaceuticals and simplify the requirements for healthcare workers. The other rule will provide greater flexibility to industry while requiring new safeguards to protect the public from mismanagement of hazardous waste.

| The sales figures for the first half of 2015 were 10 per cent lower than the year before. The net income was -8.8 million Euro, also worse than in 2015.

| ZenRobotics has appointed Sun Earth Co., based in Yokohama, Japan, as the distributor for their waste sorting systems in Japan. Several units will be delivered in late 2015 and will be the first of their kind in Japan.

| Germany’s track record for recycling scrapped cars is set to further improve after Tetronics International announces its plasma arc technology has gone live at Duesmann & Hensel Recycling’s plant near Frankfurt. Duesmann & Hensel Recycling is currently responsible for circa 10% of the global recycled automotive catalytic converter market.

| Current Prisident of Terex China will be the successor of Tom Ford.

| Especially Europe Metals and global E-Recycling delivered good results in the last year.

| Europe’s Circular Economy Package should be ambitious in maximising waste prevention and use of waste as a resource while minimising landfilling of recyclable and recoverable waste, the Waste-to-Energy umbrella association CEWEP points out in its statement in response to the European Commission’s consultation on the circular economy currently underway.

| The new company will be called Konecranes Terex Plc.

| American researcher Transparency market research forecasts a CAGR of 23.06% from 2013 to 2019.

| Despite difficult market conditions especially in the steel and metals recycling segment the company was able to increase revenue and earnings.

| Novelis today reported a net loss of $60 million for first quarter of fiscal year 2016. Excluding certain tax-effected items, the company reported net income of $24 million in the first quarter of fiscal 2016 compared to $28 million in the first quarter of fiscal 2015.

| International technology Group Andritz has increased its revenue by 13 percent in the first half of 2015.