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Committing wholeheartedly to pumping up pet ownership should be the industry’s No. 1 priority, says David Lummis, lead pet market analyst at Packaged Facts.

The number of U.S. consumers using credit cards has increased 7% since 2015, according to Packaged Facts.
Among factors driving increased credit card use is e-commerce, which is taking an increasingly bigger market share of retail and which is made much easier with payment cards.

One of the largest opportunities in 2020 for instructional materials adoptions is Texas, where the materials schools purchase will be used by an estimated 1.8 million students in grades 9-12 in a variety of courses, including literature, journalism, communications, writing, college readiness and study skills, and reading.

The main beneficiaries of single-use bans are paper bags and higher-gauge reusable plastic bags; newer types of natural-fiber bags, such as those based on hemp, are also seeing growth. As more research is conducted on the impact of bans, however, concerns are being raised about whether these alternatives truly have a better overall environmental footprint than the plastic bags they are replacing.

Americans go through about 120 billion disposable coffee cups a year, according to market research firm Freedonia Group. The solution to all that waste is to bring your own cup. If only it were that simple. Outside the People’s Republic of Cambridge, how many people do that? How many to-go tumblers did you buy only to see them collect dust in your kitchen cabinet?