Some resin plants that were temporarily shut down in advance of Hurricane Francine hitting the Gulf Coast last week are now restarting and getting back to normal. Resin sector analysts said any production outages from the storm could tighten PVC supplies and potentially result in higher prices.
Also, a federal judge in Washington has denied attempts by two plastics industry trade associations to put a roadblock in front of a California state probe into whether the industry misled the public about the recyclability of plastics.
Finally this week, California’s state recycling agency is telling expanded polystyrene foodservice makers they need to prove their products have a 25 percent recycling rate by Jan. 1 or be banned under the state's extended producer responsibility law.
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