Recycled plastic export report: September 2022
Please note this report just focuses on the waste polymers of ethylene commodity code (391510), as exports of other plastics are relatively...
Recycling prices and market commentary: 2 April 2021
The week leading up to Easter and the long weekend brought huge price increases for metals, largely stable plastics, and an uncertain...
Recycling prices and market commentary: 14 January 2022
The market was starting to find its feet this week, but there is still a lot of working out how 2022 is...
Recycled plastic export report: June 2022
Please note this report just focuses on the waste polymers of ethylene commodity code (391510), as exports of other plastics are relatively...
Recycling prices and market commentary: 15 November 2019
Depressing prices for OCC and mixed paper is the key story this week in the recycling marketplace.
Both grades...
Recycling prices and market commentary: 5 June 2020
Those trading in the recycling market this week generally found themselves trying to decide which way values are headed.
Recycling prices and market commentary: 10 December 2021
R3 or R12 was the big talking point in this week's market as the Environment Agency in England yet again began cancelling...
Recycled plastic export report: June 2023
These are the latest HMRC export figures for June 2023 for PE-based plastics – commodity code 391510. Only destinations of more than...
Recycling prices and market commentary: 8 July 2022
The gradual easing of market prices continued this week, with the exception of some industrial metals that dropped sharply.
James Armitage on the PRN market
Valpak’s head of procurement James Armitage gives his opinion on the PRN market
We are almost halfway through the...