The report identifies the key themes that emerged from the paper recycling sector in 2009, which were:
• Declining paper consumption has led to lower volumes of paper recovery, despite rising recovery rates;
• Production capacity has continued to contract in certain parts of the UK paper manufacturing industry but has expanded in others. As a consequence, the nature of the demand for recovered fibre is changing; and
• Prices have been very volatile over the past 18 months, reaching unusually high levels in mid 2008, before declining steeply and then recovering towards historic averages.

The full report is available here:
http://www.wrap.org.uk/downloads/WRAP_Paper_market_situation_report_Feb2010.2936eca6.8440.pdf