Plastic Recycling Prices Uk

Prices currently stand at 222 50 per tonne compared to 177 50 per tonne in february 2019.

Plastic recycling prices uk.

With ex works the buyer will collect the material and this includes when the material is. The price of plastics has plummeted to the extent that it isn t worth recycling. When oil prices drop the cost of producing virgin plastics also falls making new plastic more attractive to manufacturers and buyers than recycled plastic. Get in touch with us to learn more about your options.

This is the highest price seen since november 2016. An investigation from npr and the pbs show frontline found oil and gas companies had serious doubts that plastic recycling was viable but promoted it to keep profits high and plastic bans at bay. A report from s p global platts a commodity market specialist revealed that recycled plastic now costs an extra 72 57 a tonne compared with newly made plastic. In the uk recycling rates have stagnated in.

We show the price which may be paid per tonne for collected material for plastics recycling including plastic bottles and plastic film hdpe pet and pp. Prices are collected from scrap yards directly and updated bi weekly. A reprocessor is typically a paper mill or steel mill. Coloured pet bottle prices have also seen strong growth this year currently reaching 50 per tonne.

Call us at 1 877 250 9994 or send us a message online. Please use the drop down menu to the right for price indicators. Recovered plastic prices clear pet bottle prices have seen good growth over the past 6 months. Canadian cities listed.

If china doesn t take plastic we can t sell it. The british plastics federation recycling group is made up of over 40 recyclers who between them represent around two thirds of all plastic recycling businesses in the uk. Average price indicates the average price paid by all scrap yards in u s. Plastic scrap prices listed below are national average prices paid by scrap yards in the u s a.