An article posted May 5, 2020 on the home page of Resource Recycling magazine https://resource-recycling.com/recycling/2020/05/05/low-virgin-plastics-pricing-pinches-recycling-market-further/ notes that “… The coronavirus pandemic has piled on top of existing plastics recycling market strife to cause pricing fluctuations and create uncertainty about how end users will meet their sustainability commitments. Recycling markets for nearly all materials have been challenged for the past few years due to shifts in overseas demand. Additional pressure has come from tariffs on recycled materials and other goods, as well as ongoing strife in the freight market. Now, the coronavirus pandemic has added health and safety concerns, employment shortages and a general slowdown in manufacturing … For plastics, the coronavirus impact has come historic drops in oil prices, meaning virgin plastic could be significantly cheaper than recycled resin for the foreseeable future … Recycled plastics markets are going to be pressured by prime prices for at least the next two years …” #Recycling #PlasticWaste #PlasticPackaging #Sustainability #SingleUsePlastic
Animal Digestible Food Packaging Initiative
Our reason-for-being/goal/purpose/objective/intent is to convince/inspire/persuade/encourage the food processing industry to establish and fund a public private partnership for the discovery of new food packaging materials that would be digestible by animals (farm animals as well as ubiquitous microbes).
