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5ft mixed no. 1 & 2 steel £170â Light iron
Ferrous metals 2ft max constructional profile for shearing
Precious metals Fine Gold 9ct Gold Platinum Palladium Fine Silver 925 Silver
Prices per gramme
Non ferrous metals Clean heavy copper £4730â Bright copper (ordinary) £5031â No.1 Copper wire No.2 Copper wire
Baled braziery copper £4601â Brass & copper rads £2924â Mixed brass Brass cuttings
£4773â £4730â
£2967â £3440â
£155â
£33.42ç £12.53ç £33.34ç £15.24ç £609ç £564ç
£130â Complete car/lorry engines £230â £3182â
Mixed steel turnings £130â Mixed light steel cuttings £170â Oversize ballable cast iron £160â Light cast iron
£170â Brass swarf
Pure aluminium cuttings £1290â Alum alloy cuttings £1032â Baled old rolled
Cast aluminium £946â Aluminium turnings £774â Ingots – Mixed remelts £1238â Batch remelts £1193â £774â £159â £946â
£885â
Aluminium cans Steel cans
Zinc diecast scrap
Stainless steel solids £1075â Stainless steel turnings £989â Lead soft scrap Batteries
£1290â £602â
Prices per tonne In association with t2e PRN trade summary for week ending March 2
Glass (aggregate) £40 â £40.15 £45 £40 7,222 Glass (remelt) £50 â £50.50 £55 £50 12,220 Paper Plastic
Aluminium £5.25 â £5.30 £7.50 £4.95 119 Glass
£0 £0 -
Last traded Average High Low Total £0 â £0
Recovery Steel
Wood
£0.90 â £1.01 £1.20 £0.85 10,678 £15.50 â £15.09 £18 £12.50 20,631 £0.25 â £0.29 £0.30 £0.25 47,706 £17 â £18.78 £28 £13 6,391
£1.60 â £1.60 £1.60 £1.60 3,160 Total
£12.66
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Cullet Green
Flint (clear) Brown Mixed
Plastics HDPE coloured HDPE natural PET clear
PET colour
£23â £40â £33â £20â
Base prices per tonne delivered
£155â £360â £250â £55â
Prices for baled bottles delivered In association with
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News & pams Mixed paper Soft mixed
Cardboard/KLS
£110-£118â £78-£85â £52-£60â £54-£62ç £92-£96æ
White H letter/ledger £165-£170â News & pams Mixed paper Soft mixed
Export Ex Works SOW/Office papers £116-£123â Multigrade
£112-£120â £85-£93â
Cardboard/KLS
£62-£70â £68-£76æ £95-£102æ
Variances to take account of geographical location of material and all prices based on 25 tonnes minimum loadability
March 26 REA Symposium 2013 - Energy, security and prosperity Royal Institution, London An inaugural conference, the aim of REA Symposium 2013 is to take a 2050 perspective at the key issues for energy and sustainability as well as ways of embedding sustainability at the core of business.
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April 16 Sustainability Live NEC, Birmingham The event provides a showcase for suppliers to meet with decision makers looking for improved operating costs and resource efficiency.
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June 11-13 Plant and Waste Recycling Show (PAWRS) Paignton, Torbay PAWRS attracts a broad range of exhibitors from product and technology manufacturers to niche specialists. All offer solutions to reduce waste.
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March 6 Second CIWM conference for the Welsh waste and resources sector Cardiff, Wales The focus of the programme will be resource efficiency = sustainable growth. Wales has all the pieces of the resource efficiency jigsaw and this conference will show how, once put together, they will lead to economic, social and environmental benefits and growth.
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WITH ALL the recent and well justified coverage on food waste - what with the Institution of Mechanical Engineers’ report last month saying that 30-50% of food produced is uneaten and WRAP announcing its partnership with the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) to work together to develop a plan for a global food waste reduction programme - it is nice to see other sectors in recycling get a look in. By this, I am referring to textiles. A Veolia press release landed
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yoox.com, and has designed a collection of jeans created from reclaimed denim donated by denim brand, Pier. Nice one. page 3 we also report on how the Salvation Army Trading
a chance to clear out their wardrobes while considering one of their iconic motorbikes. Mind you, it’s going to take quite a media campaign to get punters to clear out their wardrobes before heading off to the Harley- Davidson showroom. Used clothes and motorbikes? An unusual combo. But themain issue is that topics as specialised as textile recycling (and food waste) are making the transition from the trade press - where it is a case of addressing the converted - to the mainstream press and the mainstream consciousness. And that is definitely something to celebrate.
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FURTHER TO provisional quarterly estimates for the first quarter of 2012/13 of local authority collected waste generation and management in England, which revealed 43% of household waste was recycled in the 12 months to the end of June 2012, similar to the 2011/12 financial year, concern has been expressed that recycling rates are “flat lining”. Ray Georgeson, chief
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executive of the Resource Association said: “The continued steady decline of landfill is a testament to the success of the Landfill Tax and other policy drivers to divert material from landfill. "The flat lining of stated
recycling rates is a cause for concern, especially as it is likely to be an over-reported figure. Defra themselves recently noted in their Quality Action Plan that “current recycling rates
reported to WasteDataFlow are likely to be overestimates as many do not account for material rejected by the MRF during the sorting process in a robust manner.” [para 5.10] Local authorities,
continued Defra, recycled, composted or reused 45% of the waste they collected in the first quarter of 2012/13. This amounted to more
than was landfilled. The use of incineration with energy recovery also increased by over 20% to 1.3m tonnes, which, according to Defra, reflected the annual trends in increased incineration seen in the last couple of years. Rebecca Eatwell,
director at communications consultancy PPS Group, told RWW: “With an increase in energy recovery from waste of over 20% this does demonstrate that energy from waste does not detract from recycling. "However, more needs
to be done to maximise recycling through waste awareness and education programmes - a challenge
when many local authority budgets have been cut.” Jonathan Clarke, country
THE UK waste management sector could capitalise on the arrival of the 2014 Ryder Cup in Scotland after Ryder Cup Europe launched its official procurement portal this week with contracts in a number of different categories. The 2014 Ryder Cup
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around 5,000 people to be employed on projects directly related to the event. The PCS portal has 60,000
manager of TOMRA Sorting UK, questioned whether there is a danger of England not meeting European recycling targets by 2020. “Although the national
recycling rate has been increasing over the last ten years, the rate of increase has been slowing in the last few and this latest set of figures shows no change in rates in the last 12 months. "Does this mean we are
off course for reaching the European target of 50% by 2020? Possibly - regardless of the figures, we should be doing all we can to make it easier for people to recycle. Clarke added: “I believe
Scotland unveils food and drink eco strategy
businesses already registered and Ryder Cup Europe is encouraging companies to use the portal to ensure they hear about new contract opportunities. According to Ryder Cup
SCOTLAND FOOD & Drink have launched the first pan-industry strategy for the Scottish food and drink industry.
The strategy is reported to focus on five core themes.
Europe, contracts will appear online gradually to reflect the categories already available to existing registered businesses on PCS, ensuring as many potential suppliers as possible are aware of the different Ryder Cup opportunities.
the most straightforward way of recovering more waste is having a national approach to kerbside collections. Whether it’s one, two or three bins - the same collection policy for everyone in the UK has to be the right solution to help the UK meet the targets set in the Waste Framework Directive.”
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These comprise the efficient use of resources, reducing greenhouse gas emissions, waste (including recycling and sending less to landfill), reducing the impact of transport and making businesses more resilient to climate change. A set of commitments have been set in order to benchmark progress against the sustainability ambition annually
WRAP reports on textiles retail models
foodservice companies so they can help businesses adapt and respond where required, similar to the on-going work being undertaken with M&S and their Scottish suppliers.
WRAP HAS published a report that highlights new business models for the clothing sector,. WRAP’s report, Evaluating the financial viability and resource
Scotland Food & Drink said it will continue to work with other stakeholders including retailers and
implications for new business models in the clothing sector, looks at the commercial viability of a number of alternatives to make-buy-use-dispose business models. Out of five models reviewed, the most effective is said to see retailers offering resale of their own brand, pre-owned garments back to the consumer. With relatively low set up costs it reportedly provides the quickest payback period where capital invested is met in less than two and a half years with a good return on capital.
Iain Gulland, director, Zero Waste Scotland said: “With the introduction of new Waste (Scotland) Regulations next year, and the third stage of the Courtauld Commitment set to launch this spring, there’s never been a more important time to consider the way the industry views waste – seeing it not as a problem to be dealt with, but as a valuable resource which could reduce bottom line costs and help meet customers’ expectations around sustainability.”
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INVESTOR, IONA Capital has announced the successful investment into Stanley Renewable Energy, a joint venture company with developer JFS & Associates and a family run farm in Cumbria. According to Iona Capital, an investor in larger anaerobic digestion (AD) transactions, this is the company’s first investment in the smaller scale farm based AD market. JFS & Associates will act as a
director for the 2014 Ryder Cup said: “We would love to hear from local suppliers who feel they have the right product quality and business infrastructure to become involved with the event.” The Ryder Cup
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procurement portal is a joint initiative between Ryder Cup Europe, the Scottish Government and Scottish Enterprise. It is reportedly the first
time that a series of private contracts will be available through what has been a public sector portal. Ryder Cup contracts will
development partner and build a new 250kWAD plant at Ponsonby Old Hall Farm in Cumbria. The farm will supply the feedstock from existing farmwastes such as manure
and slurry, supplemented with energy crops. Stanley Renewable Energy will generate renewable electricity from the anaerobic digestion process, receiving income under the feed-in-tariff scheme, with the electricity being used on the farm or sold to the National Grid. This is reportedly the first of
a number of schemes that are to be developed and funded in this manner by Iona and JFS, with two further farm scale projects in North Yorkshire planned for construction in early 2013. Mike Dunn, director, Iona Capital,
said: “We believe that anaerobic digestion technology provides an
excellent opportunity for farmers to benefit from new streams of income through the clean production of electricity and reduction of costs on farm. Iona Capital is entering a new small scale AD market and is providing financial stimulation for growth and development of AD in the UK.”
Matthew Flint, director, JFS & Associates, added: “It’s a real partnership where both sides benefit from the others’ resources and
expertise. Our strategy is to dovetail into the farm’s existing business, with JFS taking care of the project delivery, allowing the farmer to continue to do what he does best.”
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be awarded over the next 18 months with the first contract expected to be awarded within the next three months.
UBMLIVE, organisers of the event dedicated to the facilities management sector, have announced that registration for visitors is now open for Facilities Show 2013, taking place at Birmingham’s NEC on May 14-16. Visitors interested in attending
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RUBBISH ART was created at the University of Derby this week when an artist/cleaner turned waste materials into a sculpture as part of a public ‘Go Green Week’. The week devoted to
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T’S NOT often you find a world first on your doorstep. However, I find myself in that position thanks to an independent malt whisky producer just a few miles down the road in Blackford, Perthshire, who has signed
a deal to turn by-products from its distillery into fuel for cars. The ‘memorandum of understanding’ with
Edinburgh-based Celtic Renewables will see draff (dregs produced in the brewing process) and pot ale (liquid residue from the wash stills) from Tullibardine Distillery used to up-scale and refine a technology developed to convert them into biobutanol using bacteria. “It is a direct substitute for fossil-derived
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fuel,” says Martin Tangney, founder of Celtic Renewables and director of the Biofuel Research Centre (BfRC) at Edinburgh Napier University. “The whisky industry annually produces
1,600 million litres of pot ale and 500,000 tonnes of draff which could be converted into biobutanol. This would reduce oil consumption and CO2
emissions, while also recycling: A new era?
providing energy security - particularly in remote and rural areas where the whisky industry is prevalent.” Tangney’s thirst for creating a sustainable
biofuel was inspired, in part, by David Ramey’s feat in 2005 when he drove his unmodified 1992 Buick across America fuelled by 100% butanol.
resource efficiency responsibility deal - Courtauld Commitment 3 - expected in the Spring along with a greater focus on the impact of products across their entire lifecycle. Fay Dashper reports.
This promises to be a landmark year for UK packaging recycling, with the next phase of the grocery esponsibility
Pork and chicken As some have suggested, like pork is to chicken, butanol is to ethanol - it’s ‘the other fuel’ and is often overlooked. But with the help of a £155,000 grant from Zero Waste Scotland, Celtic Renewables will move from their ‘proof of concept’ research using three litres of whisky residues to an industrial 10,000 litres. CEO Mark Simmers hopes it will drive a
Fay Dashper Recycling operations manager, ACE UK
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ITH THE opening of the UK’s only beverage carton recycling facility, 2013 promises to be a significant year for beverage carton
recycling. Beverage carton recycling in the UK is
growing rapidly. Since the beginning of 2011, the number of UK local authorities collecting cartons from the kerbside for recycling has risen from 31% to 47%. This upward trend is expected to continue, with the 50% barrier set to be broken in early 2013. By comparison, only 4% of local
authorities collected cartons as part of their kerbside services in 2006. However, despite this, at present cartons
collected for recycling are exported to Sweden for reprocessing as the UK does not have the capability. That is set to change this year, thanks to ACE UK members, Tetra Pak, Elopak and SIG Combibloc, alongside coreboard producer, Sonoco Alcore. From mid-2013 a new carton recycling
facility at Sonoco Alcore’s mill in Stainland, near Halifax in West Yorkshire, will become operational, taking beverage carton recycling to a new level. The reprocessing facility offers local
authorities and waste management companies absolute assurance that the single stream cartons they collect will be recycled in the UK - which will appeal to those local authorities that have ‘no export’ policies for their collections. As a result of this and further benefits
detailed below, we expect to see an increase in local authorities collecting cartons, making 2013/14 a game-changing year for beverage carton recycling.
A UK solution The new UK facility allows local authorities to lower their carbon footprint as the road and sea miles travelled by used beverage cartons will be reduced. Currently cartons collected by ACE UK are reprocessed at a mill in Sweden. Sending cartons to the UK recycling facility and not to a Swedish paper mill will greatly reduce transport emissions, leading to an estimated annual saving of 122 tonnes of CO2
. Environmental responsibility is an
operational imperative, but these actions are often dictated by financial accountability. The new recycling facility has some persuasive financial arguments in its favour too.
We all know how volatile the market
is, with price fluctuations an unwelcome presence. The UK facility will help to create a domestic market for beverage cartons, providing waste management companies and local authorities with a fixed price per tonne available for cartons delivered; offering welcome certainty in this time of fiscal austerity. Furthermore, by creating a UK market with a defined recycling process, the new
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facility will make it more appealing for local authorities to collect cartons from the kerbside. By way of context, research has shown
revolution as they “demonstrate the viability of the process as a new and important industry of potential scale for Scotland”. The project could also prove timely, given
that switching from bring banks to kerbside collections, recycling rates can increase by up to six times. Plus, by including beverage cartons as part
of existing kerbside recycling collections, local authorities can expect an overall improvement in participation from residents, who find it easier to distinguish what can be included. At the same time, diverting used beverage
cartons from landfill avoids associated tax and gate fees, and if the UK plant runs at its full capacity of 25,000 tonnes, this will potentially reduce these costs by an average total of £3.6m during the year. Greater emphasis is being placed on
proposals to change EU laws governing the use of food crops for biofuel production. After months of leaks, the European
as clean as can be. The polyAl is cleaned, compressed and then baled. It can either be recycled into composite
Commission finally published its plans to revamp Europe’s biofuels policy and “give incentives for best-performing biofuels” in October 2012. According to the Commission, this means a reduction in the amount of crops used for biofuel production - so-called first generation biofuels including rapeseed and wheat - and further incentives for advanced biofuels, such as algae, farm waste, straw and other waste from food and drink processing. ‘’For biofuels to help us combat climate
waste prevention and resource efficiency at a European level; but theWaste Framework Directive’s quality standards can sometimes prove challenging. The mill creates a clean fibre stream, offering the chance to get ahead of MRF quality protocols. Exporters can benefit from this also, with
Asian import standards becoming more stringent and restrictive on what is accepted as ‘soft’ or ‘mixed fibre’ bales. Chief among the benefits is the ability to
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aid the recycling loop itself; the reprocessed fibres will be made into recyclable coreboard for products such as cling film and textile tubes. This means the green credentials of beverage cartons are improved and this value is passed along the supply chain. What results is a dedicated recycling
route with a very short chain of custody. Local authorities and waste management companies receive absolute assurance that beverage cartons can be recycled in the UK and can visit the facility for themselves.
How will the reprocessing work? Cartons can be pulped in a standard paper pulper, but they take longer to pulp than newspaper or cardboard, and therefore can end up as rejects within a batch pulping processes. This new facility is different as the
pulping line has been specifically designed to recycle the fibres found within laminated packaging, such as cartons, therefore making it a much more efficient process. The pulper’s rotor arm has soft teeth,
which helps to keep the polymers and aluminium in large sheets, stopping them slipping into the fibre stream. This results in more fibres (as more are separated) and no contamination to the clean fibre stream. The process at the new facility is
straightforward. Once the baled cartons arrive at the mill they are loosely fed along a conveyor belt, dropped into the pulper with cold water and pulped for about 20 minutes until a slurry is created. This slurry is then diluted to wash the
fibre away from the polymers and aluminium foil (polyAl), with the production system allowing the polyAl to flow in one direction and the fibre in the other. The polyAl is pumped into a washing
drum, ensuring that as much fibre as possible is captured and the remaining polyAl is
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change, we must use truly sustainable biofuels,” said European commissioner for climate action, Connie Hedegaard, at the time. “We must invest in biofuels that achieve real emission cuts and do not compete with food. We are of course not closing down first generation biofuels, but we are sending a clear signal that future increases in biofuels must come from advanced biofuels. Everything else will be unsustainable.”
products such as garden furniture, or used to recover energy from the polymers and create aluminium flakes ready for recycling. Both are excellent options and ACE UK is currently investigating the best option. The fibre, after it has been separated
with
to make tubes and cores for applications including cling film and textile tubes.
Ill conceived proposals? Farming groups have called the proposals
from the polyAl, is pumped (via a poire and cyclone cleaner) to an energy efficient, three stage screening process. This guarantees that any grit or small
Ripple effect
“ill conceived”, highlighting the high quality ration that comes from bioethanol plants. “This isn’t about food and fuel, this is about both,” NFU combinable crops board chairman, Andrew Watts told Farmers Guardian. He also questioned a policy that would see
pieces of polyAl are removed and the cleanest fibre is sent on, ready to be blended with other fibre sources to make coreboard. Sonoco Alcore can then use this coreboard
at least 10% of their transport fuels from renewable sources by 2020. Under the new plans, no more than half of
a UK market in which 3.5%of road transport fuel is frombiofuels, a large proportion of which is reliant on crops. New technology such as that being trialled
by Celtic Renewables in Perthshire might prove them wrong. Some suggest there is also a fuel versus food dilemma when it comes to
the UK increase its reliance on more expensive imported protein for animal feed. Currently, EU member states have to derive
that 10% can be crop-based biofuels, with the rest coming from the advanced biofuels. Some say the 5% cap could really hinder
Beverage carton reprocessing is evolving and the resultant ripple effect will only have positive outcomes for those involved. The already low carbon footprint of cartons will become even lower, and much needed valuable materials will go back into the UK economy, instead of abroad - something householders have come to expect. This application of technological
advancement is allowing the UK to move towards a green economy; making the evolution faster and transforming recycling in the process.
whisky by-products. The principal by-products of the whisky-making process are pot ale and draff, which are already used as animal feeds and any efforts to divert those materials could cause consternation in the farming community. However, a report published recently, and
commissioned by the Scottish government, found that 40% of Scottish distillery feed by-products were sent to England. This demonstrates there is no overall
shortage in Scotland, says Campbell Evans, director of government and consumer affairs at the Scotch Whisky Association (SWA). “A plentiful supply of various forms of
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distillery-derived feed, including draff exists in Scotland,” he explains. “There has been a significant investment in the Scotch whisky industry and recent announcements show further expansion. This will further boost the industry’s supplies of animal feed to farmers.” And more and more whisky producers are
showing an interest in anaerobic digestion (AD), though to generate energy for their own sites rather than for transport fuels.
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(CoRD), which exists to process co-products from 16 malt distilleries, used to sell its distillers’ dark grains as high quality animal feed to dairy herds. However, rising costs, the need for a bigger
capacity to meet rising demands from the distilleries, an ageing 1970s plant together with a declining animal feeds market, led to a strategic review and a decision tomove to a duel-fuelled combined heat and power plant offering 6.25 megawatts of energy to the national grid and 40,000 tonnes of pot ale syrup for liquid animal feed. The joint venture company Helius CoRDE
estimates that the project will increase the processing capacity of the plant from 85,000 tonnes a year to 130,000 tonnes.
Catching the bug It’s the larger sites that have, to date, embraced the technology. Diageo certainly caught the AD bug, as head of environment Michael Alexander explained in an interview with Food Manufacture: “Our energy bill sits at around the £5m a year mark, so it’s in our interests to generate asmuch energy as we can. What we get from our investment in AD isn’t a typical payback by any stretch of the imagination, but [it makes sense] when you think of the challenge of managing our waste on large plants.” Scotch whisky distillers are not newcomers
to sustainability; quality raw materials, traditional production methods, and world famous brands rely on a pristine environment. They also have an ambitious industry-wide
environment strategy, which was launched in 2009. Progress has been good - perhaps better than expected - but clearer guidance regarding policy and incentives would help. So, what incentives exist for distillers
wanting to harness their own by-products for energy? Little. Or so it appears. A paper published by the SWA explains
that while financial incentives exist for the biofuels industry, which distils fermented food crops to produce fuel, potable alcohol producers operating in a similar environment don’t benefit from such incentives. “Our members have even been denied
access to the government’s much awaited renewable heat incentive scheme due to the too-low thresholds for biogas schemes,” says director of operational and technical affairs, Julie Hesketh-Laird. “For instance, without available financial
incentives to burn its biogas in a dedicated steam raising boiler for direct use in the distillery, the North British Distillery has been compelled to consider less efficient options for using their biogas such as electricity generation via a gas engine. “Governments and regulators must give
clearer financial signals, equitable across all sectors, if companies are to be able to successfully access incentives,” she adds. Nevertheless, on the basis of the current
investments to using co-products for energy production, together with commitments for energy efficiency projects and with other board level commitments in the pipeline, the SWA says the industry is not just on target to meet its 2020 energy commitment (for 20% to come from non-fossil fuel sources), it is likely to overshoot it. That is certainly something to drink to.
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Latest material prices Paper: Steady as she goes Materials report
RWWoffers the latest buying-in prices for the trade for the trade for the day of February 8.
Values represent overall buying-in prices on Feb 8. Larger loads (500kg for non ferrous metals, five tonnes for ferrous metals) would expect to command higher prices. The arrow symbols indicate increases or decreases since last issue.
Ferrous metals 2ft max constructional profile for shearing
Precious metals Fine Gold 9ct Gold Platinum Palladium Fine Silver 925 Silver
Prices per gramme
Non ferrous metals Clean heavy copper
Bright copper (ordinary) £4734 No.1 Copper wire No.2 Copper wire
RWW 7 t2e PRN trade summary for week ending February 8
Glass (aggregate) £45 £45 Glass (remelt) £55 £55 Paper Plastic
Glass
Recovery Steel
Wood
Aluminium £5.25 £5.30 £ - £ -
Last traded Average High Low Total £4.95 119 £ -
£7.50 £ -
£45 £45
£1 £1.08 £1.20 £0.85 £15.25 £14.82
£1.60 £1.60 £1.60 £1.60 3,160 Total
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£0.25 £0.29 £0.30 £0.25 47,706 £15 £19.92 £28
£55 £55 220 £18 £12.50 12,310 3,889
6,461 74,087
Baled braziery copper £4267 Brass & copper rads £2898 Mixed brass Brass cuttings
£2915 £2813
£4607 Mixed steel turnings
5ft mixed no. 1 & 2 steel £170 Light iron
£15.41 Cast aluminium £642 £594
£34.06 £12.77 £35.06
£155
Mixed light steel cuttings £170 Oversize ballable cast iron £160 Light cast iron
£130 Complete car/lorry engines £230 £3068
Brass swarf
Pure aluminium cuttings £1236 Alum alloy cuttings £1037 Baled old rolled
Aluminium cans Steel cans
£4692 Zinc diecast scrap £4989
Prices per tonne In association with
Stainless steel solids £989 Stainless steel turnings £870 Lead soft scrap Batteries
£1108 £395
Aluminium turnings £756 Ingots – Mixed remelts £1224 Batch remelts £1179 £831 £158 £831
£879 £918
£170 £130
Green waste Loose (cost of disposal) £35 Prices per metric tonne
Cullet Green
Flint (clear) Brown Mixed
Plastics HDPE coloured HDPE natural PET clear
PET colour
£23 £40 £33 £20
Base prices per tonne delivered
£155 £350 £260 £55
Paper UK Domestic ex works SOW/Office papers £110-£115 Multigrade
Prices for baled bottles delivered In association with
News & pams Mixed paper Soft mixed
Cardboard/KLS
£110-£115 £78-£85 £52-£57 £52-£57 £75-£83
Export Ex Works SOW/Office papers £113-£118 Multigrade
White H letter/ledger £160-£167 News & pams Mixed paper Soft mixed
Cardboard/KLS
£60-£66 £60-£66 £80-£89
Variances to take account of geographical location of material and all prices based on 25 tonnes minimum loadability
£113-£118 £85-£93
Stuart Pohler, recovered paper sector manager with the Confederation of Paper Industries, gives an update on the recovered paper market.
RECOVERED PAPER and board prices have remained broadly stable at the start of February. The market for recovered paper exports, particularly old corrugated casing (OCC), had been quiet in the lead up to the Chinese New Year on February 10. Some merchants reported that domestic OCC collections have been significantly higher than the same period in 2012, due to increased supply from the retail sector. Despite this additional supply, both domestic and export grade OCC prices are stable at around £65-£75 per tonne and £80-£90 per tonne respectively. Collection rates for news & PAMs have picked up following lower than
normal collections during the adverse weather in January. News & PAM prices fell slightly to an average of £90 per tonne, reportedly due to weaker domestic demand. Multigrade prices also fell slightly by £5 per tonne to an average of £100 per tonne. On the domestic front, Saica’s PM 11 containerboard mill in Partington
has now been operating for a year and,with plans to gradually increase output during the first quarter of 2013, orders for recovered paper are likely to increase as a result. Longer term indications of oversea demand is only likely to become
apparent once the Chinese market picks up following the Spring festival. Last year, overall exports of paper and board for recyclingwill have
represented around 55% of total UK collections, of which around 80% was destined for China. This dependence renders the UK paper industry vulnerable as several factors must remain favourable for continued stability, including shipping freight rates, sustained Chinese manufacturing output and corresponding growth in global consumer demand. While some factors will remain beyond our direct influence, the
same cannot be said of the future quality of paper and card collected for recycling in the UK. Recyclate imported by China was the focus of growing scrutiny throughout 2012 with a number of reported clampdowns at Chinese ports leading to containers from the UK being quarantined. While the material in question may only account for a small proportion
of total exports, it compounds the need for resolute action on material quality. Judging by the content of Defra and the Welsh Government’s proposed MRF code of practice and quality action plan - not to mention the outstanding judicial review on ‘separate collection’ under the EU Waste Framework Directive - the likelihood of such resolute action taking effect in 2013 and beyond remains far from assured.
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