PETpla.net Insider 03 / 2019

imprint EDITORIAL PUBLISHER Alexander Büchler, Managing Director HEAD OFFICE heidelberg business media GmbH Bunsenstr. 14 69115 Heidelberg, Germany phone: +49 6221-65108-0 fax: +49 6221-65108-28 info@hbmedia.net EDITORIAL Kay Barton Heike Fischer Gabriele Kosmehl Michael Maruschke Ruari McCallion Waldemar Schmitke Anthony Withers WikiPETia.info petplanet@hbmedia.net MEDIA CONSULTANTS Martina Hirschmann hirschmann@hbmedia.net Johann Lange-Brock lange-brock@hbmedia.net phone: +49 6221-65108-0 fax: +49 6221-65108-28 LAYOUT AND PREPRESS EXPRIM Werbeagentur | exprim.de Matthias Gaumann READER SERVICES Till Kretner reader@hbmedia.net PRINT Chroma Druck & Verlag GmbH Werkstr. 25 67354 Römerberg Germany WWW www.hbmedia.net | w ww.petpla.net PETplanet Insider ISSN 1438-9459 is published 10 times a year. This publication is sent to qualified subscribers (1-year subscription 149 EUR, 2-year subscription 289 EUR, Young professionals’ sub- scription 99 EUR. Magazines will be dispatched to you by airmail). Not to be reproduced in any form without permission from the publisher. Note: The fact that product names may not be identified as trademarks is not an indication that such names are not registered trademarks. 3 PET planet Insider Vol. 20 No. 03/19 www.petpla.net There are things you cannot believe… Are we making life too difficult for ourselves in the plastics industry? Is talk about microplastics in our oceans just a side issue? Will we ever see the tethered closure that does away with plastic waste? Are discussions about disposable PET bot- tles fake news? This is the conclusion I had to draw when I saw a letter from one of our readers, secondary school teacher Hans-Jörg Schmidt, in Bad Fallingbostel, Germany. “Our school has been receiving copies of PETplanet from you for about 10 years. However, the study of plastics has now been removed from the secondary school curriculum as it is not seen as being “of everyday importance”. As I therefore will no longer be able to teach this subject, I have (unfortunately) no further need for your magazine. Once again, many thanks for all the valuable material you have provided which I have used both in the classroom and on a personal level”. And then there are things that please you… This year, we are celebrating 20 years of PETplanet Insider. And we are particularly delighted to have received video con- gratulations from the industry. Take a look at our newly designed homepage (www.petpla.net) to see greeting messages from Flexblow, Retal and Erema. Yours, Alexander Büchler Dear readers,