[greenyes] Glass recycling price drops here too

["Reindl, John" <Reindl@no.address>]

As in New Zealand, the price being paid for glass in Wisconsin is also
dropping. For example, CRA has announced a reduction in prices to our MRF to
the following:

	Clear		$4.50 a ton
	Brown		$3.50 a ton
	Green		negative $8.50 a ton
	Mixed		negative $19.50 a ton

This is the third price decrease this year and is due in part to increased
transportation cost from higher diesel prices and I foresee that the price
will decline in the future as well. 

Users of our MRF pay approximately $70 a ton to have their glass processed
and then receive 80% of the value of the glass or pay 80% of the cost to
market it, so the net cost of recycling glass at our MRF is on the order of
$65 to $85 a ton. Added to that would be any marginal costs of collection. 

I see a need to improve the economics. I would invite suggestions from
others on this.

John Reindl, Recycling Manager
Dane County, WI 



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gary Liss [mailto:gary@no.address]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 30, 2004 5:19 PM
> To: zwia@no.address; greenyes@no.address
> Subject: [greenyes] URGENT! NZ Glass Recycling crisis
> 
> 
> Apologies for Cross-Postings
> 
> If you have any suggestions on how NZ can respond to these glass recycling

> problems, please email Jo@no.address (Jo Knight, CEO, ZW NZ Trust).
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Gary
> 
> >To: "Zero Waste Update" <the.editor@no.address>
> >Organization: Zero Waste New Zealand Trust
> >From: "Suzi Phillips" <the.editor@no.address>
> >Subject: URGENT !  Zero Waste E-News Bulletin #16
> >Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2004 12:05:06 +1300
> >
> >Dear Zero Wasters,
> >
> >Highlights of this Zero Waste E-news Bulletin are;
> >
> >*       Glass recycling dealt blow by price reductions for cullett
> >*       Community groups also under siege from funding cuts 
> and concern 
> >about steel  can recycling
> >
> >1.      Glass recovery and recycling in New Zealand has been 
> dealt a blow 
> >by the  country's only major glass recycler.
> >ACI Glass has a monopoly on processing large quantities of  
> glass cullett 
> >from around New Zealand and has just announced major price 
> drops effective 
> >from January
> > From that date the company will reduce the price it pays 
> for all glass 
> > cullett from $92 per tonne to $75 per tonne.
> >The company is also signalling a further substantial drop in 
> the price 
> >paid for clear glass cullett (effective on May 1) from $75 
> per tonne to 
> >$10 per tonne.
> >The price drops will have major repercussions on the 
> economic viability of 
> >local government and community group glass recycling schemes 
> around the 
> >country, says Zero Waste New Zealand Trust chief executive, 
> Jo Knight.
> >In the short term, contractors and community groups will be 
> looking at 
> >renegotiating contracts with their councils.
> >  "This will put the assurances made in the Packaging Accord to the 
> > test.  Fifty per cent of councils in New Zealand signed up to the 
> > Packaging Accord on the proviso that it was not going to 
> cost them more."
> >The Packaging Council is meeting to try and put in place 
> some short and 
> >long term solutions, but they have a very short time span in 
> which to work 
> >before the price changes come into effect.
> >"This is a nasty surprise for all parties, and the short 
> time frame means 
> >there is a need for interim co-operative solutions, such as 
> collecting and 
> >land-banking glass in the meantime.  This is a strong case 
> for extended 
> >producer responsibility and/or container deposit 
> legislation, in the New 
> >Year," says Jo.
> >This problem illustrates New Zealand's vulnerability to 
> market forces and 
> >the real need for an adequately funded flexible 
> infrastructure, including 
> >over-arching waste legislation.
> >"The worst case scenario is a breakdown in glass recycling 
> in New Zealand 
> >with an increase in glass to landfill.  Although glass is an inert 
> >material in a landfill, recycling glass is a behavioural 
> change that was 
> >hard to achieve and it would be a devastating backward step, 
> if that was 
> >lost," she says.
> >
> >Please email us with your views.
> >
> >Best Regards,
> >Suzi Phillips
> >Communications Co-ordinator,
> >Zero Waste NZ Trust
> >PO Box 33 1695
> >Takapuna
> >Auckland
> >Ph 09-486-0738
> 
> Gary Liss
> 916-652-7850
> Fax: 916-652-0485
> www.garyliss.com 
> 
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