How's this for a shot across the bow for the plastics packaging industry: major consumer brands like Coke, Pepsi, Clorox and others endorsing a fee on virgin resin in the U.S. to help boost recycling.

In last week’s column reporting on resin trading activity during the week of Aug. 22, we wondered if resin pricing had found a bottom. That may have been prescient . . . or premature. Reporting on ...