The death of compact discs is nigh. UK sales of CDs slumped 27% in Q4 compared with 2007, and retailers have gone or are going out of business, according to this article. CDs are being killed off by the i-Pod and assorted MP3 players. Optical media like CDs and DVDs represent around 20% of polycarbonate demand, not to mention all those fragile CD boxes made of general purpose polystyrene, so this is not good news for petchem demand.
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