Recovered PET prices have continued their steady rise, while natural and color HDPE values have remained flat over the past month.
Recovered PET prices have continued their steady rise, while natural and color HDPE values have remained flat over the past month.
Low-cost recovered PE film continues to drive record profits for Trex, which uses hundreds of millions of pounds of the plastic in its composite lumber products each year.
The Chinese government has announced key policies in recent weeks, including a plan to ban all recovered material imports by 2020.
Sellers are seeing higher prices for recovered PET, HDPE and PP bales, according to the latest markets analysis.
The U.S. will enact tariffs on $50 billion worth of Chinese products beginning July 6. Vowing retaliation, China released its own list of U.S. products to target in July.
A new ocean plastics prevention effort connects brand owners with collected oceanbound material that can be used in manufacturing. A key stakeholder recently described the four-step approach the project will entail, and what that will look like on the ground.
The upward price trends for recovered PET and natural HDPE continues, according to the latest market data.
An Ontario group recently looked at market factors shaping the domestic plastics recycling industry in 2017, and it offered predictions about where things are headed.
The Chinese government provides an option for pre-shipment inspections, and California lawmakers may add language about National Sword into state law. These are among the recent developments as China continues to revise its import regulations and the U.S. recycling industry reacts.
In May, a number of key curbside plastics have continued to increase in value.