Recycling markets - they go up, they go down - driven by economic, environmental, local, and global factors. But how did the markets do this year? Let's take a look! At NRRA’s Annual Meeting in November 2024, Brian Patnoe, NRRA Member Services Director, shared several graphs to demonstrate trends in market pricing for paper and cardboard, plastics, and metals over the past year, with some comparisons going back as far as a decade. A picture is worth a thousand words, and these pricing charts show that despite some recent dips in market pricing, overall recycling commodity markets are either similar to or higher than a year ago. Some...