Waste Paper Price Chart & Market Analysis 2026

Waste Paper Price Information Spec: China national standards;Grade A

Newest Price 288.88

Price Date 20261010

Day's Change -0.89

Day's Range 288.88 - 287.99

Month's Change -3.8

Month's Range 287.64 - 283.84

Year's Change +257.62

Year's Range 257.62 - 0

Opinions

Where does recycled waste paper actually go after collection?

The grading point is where margin is really made or lost. A depot that mixes supermarket board with mixed paper destroys value before the mill ever sees it. If you are sourcing, audit how the upstream station sorts, not just the price quote. Clean, dry yellow board consistently earns the top of the range, while mixed grades get pooled and discounted.

How much is waste paper worth per jin in China?

Watch the door-to-channel spread as a sentiment signal. When it widens, packing stations are absorbing risk and expect prices to rise; when it compresses, they are pushing cost back onto collectors. Anyone holding inventory should track that spread weekly rather than fixating on the headline number.

Why did waste paper prices swing so violently in China?

The lesson is about position in the chain, not price direction. Windfalls went to whoever could hold inventory and wait. Small collectors with no storage and same-day cash needs are structurally unable to capture rallies. If you want upside exposure, the ability to stockpile and finance the wait matters more than the buying price.

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Overview

Waste paper (废纸, scrap paper, recovered fibre) is a heterogeneous secondary raw material, typically sorted into old corrugated containers, mixed paper, and old newsprint/book stock, graded by fibre quality and contamination level. It is the dominant feedstock for recycled packaging paper in China.

Recycling: repulped, de-inked, and re-formed into new paper; fibre strength declines with each cycle, limiting reuse to roughly four to six times.
Packaging: the main downstream outlet, feeding containerboard, corrugated, and white board production.
Composites: non-recyclable fibre blended with wood materials to make low-cost furniture board.
Upcycling: clean printed sheets resold as calligraphy practice stock, wrapping paper, or craft material.

China's recovered paper sector is large but constrained by mixed collection quality and falling import volumes under the waste-import ban. Policy targets a closed-loop "collection–sorting–pulping–papermaking–products" recycled paper cluster, with recovered volumes projected to keep rising as packaging capacity expands.

Key domestic producers:
Nine Dragons Paper – leading containerboard producer and major recovered fibre consumer.
Lee & Man Paper – large-scale recycled packaging paper maker.
Shanying International – containerboard and recycled paper operations.
Sun Paper – diversified paper producer using recovered fibre.

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Waste Paper Price Information Spec: China national standards;Grade A

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Where does recycled waste paper actually go after collection?

How much is waste paper worth per jin in China?

Why did waste paper prices swing so violently in China?

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