Attached is your PO for deliveries of recyclables during August 2020. Good news! The overall market for recyclables improved compared to the previous month. This improvement is due to modest pricing increases in all fiber and metal grades. A few plastics grades also increased while others remained flat. In a change of events, domestic OCC… Read more »

Attached is your PO for deliveries of recyclables during July 2020. For the second consecutive month, the overall market for recyclables dropped compared to the previous month. This decline is due primarily to both domestic and export OCC pricing. Most other grades were flat or slightly down. Also, demand for domestic OCC decreased considerably. This… Read more »

Attached is your PO for deliveries of recyclables during June 2020. The overall market for recyclables in June fell severely compared to last month. As stated in our “Market Update for OCC” on June 1st, the domestic OCC price dropped about $40 in early June. Additionally, the lack of demand for domestic OCC forced Pioneer… Read more »

Attached is your PO for deliveries of recyclables during May 2020. The overall market for recyclables in May improved significantly compared to last month. This improvement results primarily from higher paper pricing and a considerable increase in OCC demand. COVID-19 continues to disrupt the recyclable market, and most other economic markets.  It is the driving… Read more »

Attached is your PO for deliveries of recyclables during April 2020. The overall outcome of market pricing for recyclables in April dropped compared to the past month.  This drop is a result of a modest increase paper grades versus a substantial drop in plastics grades and metals.  Metals saw the most significant drop in value…. Read more »

Attached is your PO for deliveries of recyclables during March 2020. The overall outcome of market pricing for recyclables in Marchchanged little over the past month.  However, there was some substantial changes in individual grades.  There was a modest increase in OCC pricing,a small reduction in MIX pricing, and significant drops in some plastics grades…. Read more »

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 »