Volume and price levels for scrap material sent out of the U.S. recently experienced month-to-month increases. However, cumulative export totals for 2016 continued to lag those of 2015.
Volume and price levels for scrap material sent out of the U.S. recently experienced month-to-month increases. However, cumulative export totals for 2016 continued to lag those of 2015.
A leading shipping line executive says recovered materials exporters can expect to see a different global freight environment in the next year. This will substantially affect the current recycling marketplace.
As recycled resin markets struggle, San Francisco leaders have called for a statewide bill mandating at least 25 percent recycled content in all single-use plastic beverage containers.
Germany increased its average recycled content in PET bottles last year, despite challenges in pricing compared with virgin plastic, according to an industry group.
The average value of recovered material sent to foreign markets is back under 17 cents per pound. Volumes are up year-over-year, however.
The U.S. recycling rate for HDPE bottles dropped slightly in 2015, while the rate for PP bottles increased noticeably. Continue Reading
An in-development plastics recycling company will take in difficult-to-recover plastics, including PP from sharps, mixed rigid bales and PET fines.
Logistics experts predict the current low costs of moving recyclables from processing plants to end-use mills will continue through the end of the year.
Figures on industry exports indicated upticks for both volume and price in late summer. For the year, exports continue to lag 2015 totals, however.
An industry group has determined the U.K.’s plastics recycling rate is around 33 percent.