This article looks at what the fall in glass PRN prices has meant for businesses in this sector. In the autumn of 2010, glass PRN prices started to fall from about £14/t to around £2.50/t. As British Glass recycling manager Rebecca Cocking wrote in her December MRW Opinion column, "The glass PRN can represent the entire revenue for glass." With such a fall of the PRN price, it was inevitable that the price of some grades of glass would suffer too. Although the price of clear and amber glass grades have held up reasonably well because there is a good market for re-melt of these higher quality grades, green and mixed glass in particular have seen dramatic price falls. Indeed, some glass reprocessors are currently charging gate fees of up to £10/t for these grades. The collapse in glass prices for poorer quality grades has made companies reassess how they deal with glass, and are looking at new and innovative solutions to ensure it remains an easily recyclable resource.
