waste
Commented by Armin Schulz on February 18th, 2026 | 07:30 CET
Verbio, CHAR Technologies, and Waste Management - These 3 stocks together are turning waste into billions!
The global waste management industry is set to become a billion-dollar market by 2026. Over 2.3 billion tons of waste per year are driving radical innovations that are transforming pure cost centers into profitable growth markets. Artificial intelligence and waste-to-energy technologies are merging into an ecosystem that is breaking efficiency records. This dynamic is not only affecting industry giants, but also specialized pioneers who are shaping the future with biogas optimization, pyrolysis processes, and global logistics. Read on to find out exactly how Verbio, CHAR Technologies, and Waste Management are benefiting from these megatrends.
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Commented by Nico Popp on February 2nd, 2026 | 07:25 CET
Energy from waste, as at Verbio: CHAR Technologies as the savior of the steel industry – competition for market leader SunCoke Energy
The steel industry is facing a severe test that is often glossed over in ESG reports. While politicians, the media, and futurologists dream of green hydrogen, this vision collides with harsh reality: steel, the basic material of our modern civilization, cannot be produced in existing plants without solid carbon. It serves not only as an energy source, but also as a chemical reducing agent to extract oxygen from iron ore and as a support structure in the furnace. Against this backdrop, it becomes clear that decarbonization cannot be achieved by completely eliminating carbon, but only by replacing its fossil origin. In this billion-dollar market, the Canadian company CHAR Technologies is positioning itself as a key problem solver. While the established market leader SunCoke Energy still relies on fossil coal and is increasingly under margin pressure, CHAR's biochar is an immediately available, climate-neutral solution. At the same time, Verbio's success in Europe shows that scaling up waste materials to energy works – a logic that CHAR is now applying to the steel sector.
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