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The Future Outlook for PET Plastics

The recycled plastics market is commoditizing, I think, pretty harmoniously with the producers of what we'll call original plastic. PET actually comes from azilines, which starts with a X, xilines are a market that comes from aromatics. Ethylene gets blended into it at some point, but it's not as straightforward as a classic simple polymers market of polypropylene and propylene. You're really taking that journey from aromatics through to the PET chain is a real interesting one with a lot of nuance along the way.

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