Post-Katrina prices put pinch on plastic products
Natural gas shortages ripple through all levels of our lives and economy, according to this story by Rikmini Callimachi of The Associated Press:
Decades before the invention of plastic, Italian pasta makers wrapped their hand-stuffed ravioli in paper tied with a coarse string.
Jay Beattie, a Seattle gourmet-pasta manufacturer, jokes he may have to revert to his ancestors’ choice of packaging. It would be cheaper than plastic, the material he has used for years to package his line of hand-cut fettuccine, potato gnocchi and pumpkin ravioli.
Of all the raw materials that have seen prices rise since hurricanes ravaged the Gulf Coast — including plywood, drywall and metal — few have been hit as hard as plastic.
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