Plastics in Health Care in 2024 is the headliner of the latest issue of Plastics News.
The special report, written by reporter Sarah Kominek from MD&M West held earlier this month, focuses on the industry's growth after recovering from the coronavirus pandemic. The medical plastics industry has two megatrends on their minds: supplier consolidation and reshoring or nearshoring production closer to customers.
Also from the front page, assistant managing editor Steve Toloken delves into a new report from two environmental groups that says California's waste plastics exports violate state laws against shipping overly contaminated bales of recycled plastic and are asking the state's attorney general to investigate.
Steve also examines a recycling "fraud" claim from a group that is seeing a case for legal action.
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