Bring your own container: Japan's takeout shops cope with plastic shortage

Nikkei Asia | June 1, 2026, 2:06 p.m. | Original

TOKYO -- Japan's ubiquitous takeout food shops are feeling the heat from the Middle East crisis as soaring prices for crude-oil-derived naphtha push up plastic container costs.

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