Recycling market conditions: looking ahead (11 June 2018)
This week's market isn't expected to be one in which prices rise up rapidly.
If anything, we may start to see some price fall, particularly...
Recycling Market Commentary and Prices: 8 June 2018
This week was certainly interesting in the recycled paper market even if prices didn't change, for reasons outlined below.
Metals also saw a price boost...
DS Smith plan to buy Spanish paper packaging company
FTSE-100 packaging company DS Smith has revealed plans to buy Spanish rival Europac at a cost of almost £1.7 million.
Europac is currently a 42%...
Recycling Market Commentary and Prices: 1 June 2018
There has been a lot going on this week that could fundamentally affect the UK recycling market.
For a start, there was the announcement that...
Recycling Market Commentary: 18 May 2018
Although the market continued to tick along this week, there appear to be some challenges ahead that are worrying participants.
Fallout from China's bans and...
Recycling Market Commentary: 11 May 2018
It was mostly a situation where the recycling market was ticking along this week, with one big exception.
The OCC market remains very strange, with...
Recycling Market Commentary: 4 May 2018
Clearly, the news that the Chinese Government intends to suspend imports of recycled material from the United States for a month, will have a...
Recycling Market Commentary: 27 April 2018
There is a little bit more optimism in the recycling market this week.
As we head into May, there is a view that things may...
Recycling market commentary: 20 April 2018
It is a strange market at the moment, with people searching for markets and how best to serve them.
This is reflected in the fact...
Recycling market commentary: 13 April 2018
There was more activity on the market this week, with the paper sector in particular appearing to be getting stronger week-by-week.
While plastics and metal...