Given the importance of all kinds of chemicals to industry around the world and the ease with which virtually any fertilizer, pharmaceutical or plastics manufacturing plant can be used, when required, to make a batch of weapons agent, no ban on production can solve or even substantially mitigate the chemical weapons problem.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Blowing Smoke About Making Deadly Gas

The world's largest maker of glass bottles, Owens-Illinois, branched into plastics in the mid-1990s, fueling top-line growth.

FORBES: Shattered Glass