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The Push by Big Retailers to Reduce PVC Packaging - Fact or Fiction

By Bob Lebeaux, President, The Plastics Group of America
December 19, 2011 in Polypropylene

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Earlier this month, there was an article in Plastics News that detailed "the push" by large retailers to reduce/eliminate PVC packaging.  Based on the amount of scrap PVC blister pack we have been collecting and the demand from our customers to buy that scrap – use of PVC does not seem to have gone down and we question the accuracy of that article's point of view.  Since a lot of TPG's business is in the NE area, we want to ask:

  • Is this only regional?  
  • Is what we see NOT what the true trend is?  
  • Is PVC usage out west, in the midwest, southwest, etc, declining?  
  • And most importantly is the true “carbon footprint” of PVC that much worse that PET & HIPS or has it been demonized to some extent?

We would love some feedback on these questions to help us with our assessment of the market.

 

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