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Well we hoped for and it now appears that the market pricing for cardboard has reached the bottom and is even showing signs of some improvement.  This is very encouraging for all parts of the supply chain as cardboard is a commodity that you can typically count on to cover most of bulk collection services and hauling and good market conditions provides a stream of revenue.

Urban Impact is continuing to work hard on communicating actively with our customer base on any quality issues with materials received at both of our plants.  

Market pricing for cardboard and other paper recovered materials continue to weaken.  It is unfortunate as many suppliers and companies rely on the pricing of various commodities to help pay for collection and equipment.   We would hope that the current pricing levels are near the bottom, hindsight will tell.

Metro Vancouver’s third annual unflushables campaign is reminding residents to keep wipes and other items like hair, floss and tampons out of the toilets.

Flushing such items down the toilet is causing problems for the region’s wastewater system by damaging pumping equipment and clogging up sewers.

This year’s campaign focuses on wipe products, which are often misleadingly marketed as ‘flushables’.

The recycling industry was hoping that the recycling commodity corrections would cease and that a stable commodity market would appear come early spring 2019. Sadly, it does not appear that this is the case, with further weakening of recycling commodity markets in both export and domestic markets. There have been several articles of South Asian countries potentially banning inbound material until the surplus quantities on the ground are processed. And China has as promised continued to reduce the volumes of recyclables purchased and imported.