When you buy an RTE meal today, most often it’s not in an aluminum tray. If you’re conscientious about recycling, you probably think, "here’s another unrecyclable piece of plastic"— because once you heat it in the microwave, you can’t clean the tray well enough to recycle it. What’s the solution? Well, there’s the old standby—aluminum.

With economic growth, an increasing working class population and lifestyle changes, the Indonesian ready-to-eat food market is projected to rapidly expand throughout the next five years, according to a report from TechSci Research.