Nonmetallics

Plastic Film Research Report Released

The-infoshop.com, Kawasaki, Japan, has released a report on plastic film detailing future market potentials and industry structure. Highlights include:

  • Plastic film demand in the U.S. is expected to increase about 3% per year to one billion pounds in 2004. Performance, cost and environmental advantage are expected to spur this growth.
  • Low density polyethylene is expected to remain a dominant film based on cost and performance evaluations.
  • Significant growth is expected in the linear low-density polyethylene sector because of better down gauging capacities and more use of stretch wrap.
  • Secondary markets, such as retail bags, will also experience rapid growth, and opportunities are expected in food packaging and non-packaging uses such as trash bags.

    'All Bottles' Campaign Endorsed by NSDA

    The National Soft Drink Association (NSDA), Washington, has announced its support for the “All Bottles” campaign for plastics curbside recycling, a program developed by the American Plastics Council (APC).

    The motivation for the campaign is to educate consumers that all plastic bottles, not just PET soft drink bottles but also containers for items such as salad dressing, peanut butter and shampoo, are packaged in plastic bottles and can be recycled as well.

    About 20% of curbside recycling programs in the U.S. use the “All Bottles” message for plastics recycling. The remainder of programs ask for plastics by resin code, which can often cause confusion. The “All Bottles” campaign is meant to simplify the recycling collection process and to increase collection rates.

    The APC says programs that have changed to the campaign have increased collection of PET bottles by more than 10%. NSDA will now talk to municipal recycling coordinators about implementing the “All Bottles” campaign into their recycling programs as well.

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