Good morning! As a gardener, this is my favorite time of year, when newly planted flowers and vegetables promise beauty and bounty to come. But working for PMM has taught me a lot about the limits of plastic recycling, and now I look at my pile of empty nursery pots and feel a stab of guilt. I wrote about the paradox of a "green" hobby that generates so much plastic waste.

Have you answered our midyear survey yet? It's just a couple of questions and won't take long. We're hoping to get an idea of how you're handling tariffs, resin price spikes and other forces weighing on the industry.

Coperion has a new, customizable recycling line, and our colleagues at IndustryWeek detail the latest jobs report, which brought better news than expected.

Lynne Sherwin, managing editor