Greater Recovery And Other Scrap Plastic Trends

摘要

Suppliers of scrap plastics will see many challenges ahead, such as meeting local and foreign manufacturing demands, threat of Asian countries importing scrap plastics, and procuring more supply of raw materials. Global demand for PET will reach about 15 million metric tons in 2008, an increase over about 14 million metric tons in 2007, Chase Willett of CMAI told attendees at the 2007 Plastics Recycling Conference held earlier this month in Dallas, Texas. "Raw material costs will be very strong through 2008," he said.