Our clients in all these regions can take advantage of the improved conditions. Things have even picked up for business leaders in the eurozone, who have shown little confidence over the past year. It looks like they have become comfortable with growth of only 7.5% in the economy, and have adjusted their businesses to generate increased sales and profits as the economy rebalances.
In China, business leaders also showed improving optimism over the last quarter.
I expect the US recovery to continue, and not be interrupted – at least for now – by the divisive nature of the country’s politics. While the US was relatively flat over the past quarter, it remains substantially ahead of last year, indicating that business leaders remain optimistic about their revenue and profitability prospects, despite some of the craziness in Washington. Yes, we all know that the UK economy has been improving over the last six months, but to see optimism surge like this in the UK – with predictions of higher company profits and significantly increased hiring – was a pleasant change from past results in the country in which I currently live. The big surprise was that business optimism in the UK more than doubled over the past quarter. I was interviewed last week by CNBC and BBC World News to discuss our Q3 International Business Report (IBR) results. We are proud to be the leaders in this space and our goal is to continue developing innovative science that creates products that are ultimately better for our planet.Ed Nusbaum on what changing global dynamics mean for growing businesses Consumers should check with their local community programs to ensure that tubes are accepted. We are active participants, having helped initiate the project, using tubes as a helpful case study, and are planning additional testing as the Framework protocols are agreed-upon by the Circularity Council driving the project.Įven with all of these efforts, however, during this transition phase your community may not yet accept tubes for recycling. Anchored in the importance of avoiding contamination and improving the quality of recycled feedstock, this project is working through the critical elements needed for all tubes to be included in community lists of acceptable items in the recycling stream.Īnother example of work we are contributing to is The Pathway to Circularity: Recyclability Framework with The Recycling Partnership, which is creating the Framework to define a clear set of criteria to help companies successfully navigate the recycling system, and take action to address challenges, thereby making circularity tangible. In addition to helping the industry transition their tubes, we’re focused on working with the recycling community by sharing our work on compatibility of recyclable tubes within the current recycling system, and partnering with key third parties to address turning "recyclable" into widely accepted and "recycled."Ī key collaborative effort we are funding is the Journey to Recyclability for Plastic Squeeze Tubes project, managed by our partner, Stina Inc. Because of this momentum, all major toothpaste brands have publicly committed to transition their tube portfolios by 2025, and a Squeeze Tube Design Guide is publicly available. Now that we’ve solved technical recyclability and proved compatibility with HDPE container recycling including sortability, we have been sharing the technology as well as the approach with tube suppliers, other brands, and any interested parties so that the transition to recyclable tubes can happen quickly, and recyclers can be confident that the tubes they receive are compatible.
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We also tested the sortability of tubes in the lab as well as in the field at MRFs (sorting facilities) data from these efforts shows that our full size tubes are able to make it through to the container line successfully, and there is minimal mis-sorting. In 2019, we earned recognition for technical recyclability from the APR (Association of Plastic Recyclers), showing that tubes of the right design are compatible with the HDPE #2 container recycling process.
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