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Article: The dog days of summer.(PAPER)
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- Recycling Today
- Article date:
- September 1, 2005
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The end of July and very beginning of August have seen a slow recovered paper market in terms of both pricing and generation.
While the market typically bottoms out in early-to-mid July, it can usually be expected to rebound in August--a trend that has yet to be seen so far this year, sources say.
Generation is slow across the board, especially for the key grades of old corrugated containers (OCC), old newspapers (ONP) and even mixed paper.
The languishing generation of ONP is to be expected this time of year, says one Midwestern recycler, who describes the phenomenon as the "summer blahs," where not a lot of people are buying advertising in ...