Attached is your PO for deliveries of recyclables during February 2020. The market for recyclables in February has again improved modestlyprimarily because of improved pricing for OCC.  This improvement represents a continuation of the trend we highlighted in our letter last month. Consuming domestic mills producing linerboard and medium are experiencing increased demand for their… Read more »

Attached is your PO for deliveries of recyclables during January 2019. The market for recyclables in January has improved modestly.  This results from increased demand for both OCC and MIX.  We believe this is occurring because of capacity expansions for OCC consumption and a change in consumption patterns for MIX as follows: AsRISI published during… Read more »

Attached is your PO for deliveries of recyclables during December 2019. The market for residentially generated recyclables has changed little over the past month.  There has been little to move the market in either direction.  The only exceptions have been a continued improvement in pricing for HDPE Natural which we discussed last month and modest… Read more »

Attached is your PO for deliveries of ResMix for the month of November 2019. The market for recyclables in November has moved (on an overall basis) little since October.  While cardboard continuedits slow seasonal slide lower,HDPE plastic as well as the metal grades have moved higher. The story for HDPE plastic is very enlightening and… Read more »

Attached is your PO for deliveries of ResMix for the month of October 2019. The market for residential recyclables has basically moved sideways from September.  This modest price movement is the result of small declines in paper pricing, most plastics and metals commensurate with the normal seasonal decline in demand during this time of year. … Read more »

Attached is your PO for deliveries of ResMix for the month of September 2019. The market for recyclables has movedslightly lower this month primarily due to the reversal of the increased pricing for OCC that we saw last month.  The reversal is attributable to both reduced purchasing of super clean OCC by Chinese buyers and… Read more »

Attached is your PO for deliveries of ResMix for the month of July 2019. The market for recyclables haschanged little over the past month primarily due to stronger pricing for OCC which was enough to offset declines in some of the metal and plastics.  The improvement in OCC is attributable to the Chinese reentering the… Read more »

Attached is your PO for deliveries of ResMix for the month of July 2019. The market for recyclables has, overall, moved very little in the past month.  Both OCC and MIX pricing remain at 25 year lows.  Plastic pricing is soft due to increasing pressure from virgin plastic pellets which are benefiting from much lower… Read more »

Attached is your PO for deliveries of ResMix to Pioneer during the month of June 2019. The market for recyclables has drifted sideways for June.  Of course, the “story behind the story” is much more complex than that simple conclusion.  Please let me explain. To begin, we did see a slight improvement in pricing for… Read more »

Attached is your PO for deliveries of ResMix to Pioneer during the month of May 2019. The market for recyclables has moved modestly lower in May.  The downward price pressure occurred in both OCC and HDPE.  The other grades we sort from ResMix were mostly stable in price. The root cause of the downward pressure… Read more »