The Return of Recycling Markets
Today's guest blog is authored by NERC board member Chaz Miller. It originally appeared on the Waste360 website.
Donnie Downer. That’s what I felt like for the last three years when speaking about markets at recycling conferences. The news was almost uniformly depressing. Following the Chinese government’s 2017 announcement about ending recyclable paper and plastic imports, markets went down and stayed down. The press went on an orgy of negative stories. We were told recycling was “broken” or worse.
Yet now, it seems the corpse has a lot of life in it. Markets for most recyclables have rebounded nicely. Best of all, prices for old corrugated containers and mixed paper are likely to continue to rise throughout…
Page: