Chemicals, Polymers

June 03, 2025

Platts clarifies cargo size for Northwest European mixed plastic waste assessment

Platts, part of S&P Global Commodity Insights, is clarifying the cargo size for its mixed plastic waste bale DDP Northwest Europe assessment, which matches Platts existing European post-use bale assessment cargo sizes.

Symbol descriptionSymbolMin. volume
Process-ready Mixed Plastic Waste Bale DDP NWE Eur/mtMPBCR0018mt

This assessment was launched on March 12, alongside the US assessment, details of which can be found here (opens in a new tab).

The assessments are published in Sustainable Polymerscan and are available on Platts Connect.

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