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Paper and metal collection facilities are currently experiencing a very interesting period. They’re like on a swing. While at the beginning of the year people received maximum prices for paper or metal after a few years, now, on the contrary, they will probably fall the lowest in history.
The global covid pandemic threatened not only production but also the opposite end of the industrial chain. Even scrap metal processors suddenly did not have sales in smelters and prices fell to a minimum. And so it was with paper. The annual amount of paper transported from Hradec Králové did not fall below 2,300 tons, but it was a long-term business. Hradec Králové services even had to pay for sorting.
After the pandemic, prices rose again and it paid off again to sell paper or iron to the collection point. In January this year, prices were even record highs. You could get five crowns for a kilo of paper.
“Now we are one crown per kilogram for unsorted paper, fifty crowns for a carton and fifty crowns for newspapers and leaflets,” said Martin Hušek from Hradec Králové Services.
It is similar with metal. The sharp rise in energy prices and the scorching automotive industry have caused that there is no longer a demand for collected raw materials. At the beginning of the year, it was possible to sell a kilo of iron to a collection point for 8 crowns, now the price is half. And during the holidays it will probably fall to an all-time low, according to estimates, it may fall to two crowns per kilogram.
Nevertheless, it has one positive for collectors. Even thieves don’t pay to steal iron anymore. At the same time, until recently in Central Bohemia, a 12-member gang invented an almost perfect perpetuum mobile. At night, they stole iron from the collection point and sold it there during the day. They gradually stole 100 tons of metal. At the prices of that time, they earned 800,000 crowns from it.
rod, TN.cz
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