Price development of plastic, paper and glass waste

This figure shows the development in unit price on a monthly basis of plastic, paper and glass waste from January 2000 to December 2011. The prices are calculated as weighted averages of a number of sub waste fractions for export both within and out of the EU.

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Methodology

Initially the total quantities for each fraction were calculated by summing up all subcategories and multiplying with 10 to convert the unit from 100kg to tonne. Correspondingly the total values for each fraction were calculated by summing up all subcategories. Finally the unit prices have been calculated by dividing the total values with the total quantities for each of the three waste fractions.

Units

Price in Euro per tonne.

Additional information

Some plastic categories were redefined in 2004. This explains why some of the plastic categories has no values prior to January 2004 and why other categories has no values after December 2003.

Price development of plastic, paper and glass waste

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