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...
China reveals 81.1% decline in solid waste imports in 2020
A Chinese Ministry of Ecology and Environment press conference has said that there was an 81.1% decline in solid waste imports between...
Essity invests to extract more fibre from food and beverage cartons
Global hygiene and health company Essity is investing €11 million (£9.40 million) in its Hondouville mill in France to extract 98% of...
Recycled paper export report: November 2021
November 2021 was a weaker month for OCC and mixed paper, the latest export data from HMRC shows.
However,...
Recycling prices and market commentary: 24 July 2020
For the plastics market, the NPWD Q2 data was eagerly awaited and its publication this week is likely to have a bearing...
OCC Future Contract set to be launched by Norwegian paper trading platform NOREXECO
Norwegian pulp and paper exchange NOREXECO has announced that it will launch a Future Contract for OCC trading.
Set...
Recycling prices and market commentary: 22 May 2020
As one recycling market commentator put it, "what goes up, must come down" and this was the case for certain paper grades...
Recycling prices and market commentary: 13 December 2019
Is there some optimism to be had for the struggling paper recycling sector? Possibly, although positives could potentially be outweighed by some...
Recycling prices and market commentary: 28 September 2018
There were small adjustments in the recycling market this week on certain grades ahead of expected deeper prices change.
Copper and brass grades saw the...
Gloomy outlook for BIR World Mirror Recovered Paper section members
The latest BIR World Mirror for Recovered Paper showed that there wasn't a huge amount of confidence in the market at present.