[Wrap] Overview Of Current Cullet Prices

According to WRAP (Waste & Resources Action Programme), glass cullet prices were broadly unchanged on between December and January 2011. Since January 2010, green and mixed cullet prices have both fallen by £8 per tonne. Glass PRN prices increased to £8.50 per tonne in December 2010, up £4.50 per tonne from November 2010 - but down £15.50 per tonne from December 2009. Cullet exports totalled less than 1kt in November 2010, down 8kt from October 2010 and down 25kt from November 2009. NPWD data suggest that 473kt of container cullet was reprocessed or exported in 2010 Q3, the same as 2010 Q2. Of this, 389kt of cullet was reprocessed domestically, 28kt higher than the same period in 2009, and 84kt was exported, down 22kt from 2009 Q3.