Spanish Gold?

Although it doesn't exactly talk about resin, here you can see how one of the trades related to pine trees was (and is):

https://www.rtve.es/play/videos/espana-directo/gabarreros-espinar/5394859/

#9 #10 I suggest, @Lada 🏡 Prkic  and @Javier 🐝 CR , that the most interesting part of the original paper, and which I failed to address in my summary post, is as follows: 

“She [ie the vice dean] maintains that most products made with petroleum – like, plastic, for instance, which is not bio-degradable – can also be made with resin and decompose more easily.”

@Rafael García Romano segoviano mira qué interesante , si nos quedamos sin trabajo ya tenemos una salida laboral cerca 😍😍

I have read this text on the internet in Spanish but I put it in English ...

Resin: an opportunity for the present and future of the rural environment

Not many people know that natural resin is the raw material for many products. Products whose competition would be petroleum. And if it is also a raw material that promotes sustainable forest management and can help to fix population in the empty Spain, what are we waiting for to promote it?

First of all, let's take a brief look at the history of this traditional trade: the resin maker...

In the 1950s, Spain was one of the world's largest producers of resin. It was a tough but sustainable profession, mainly practised in the central plains of the country. 

However, in the 1990s, China and Brazil began to overtake Spain in this type of production. Their cheaper labour force and the fact that it was physical (and hard) work meant that this trade remained only a residual one, especially in the province of Segovia.

But in 2009, the price on the international market began to rise, so that the Spanish villages where there was a tradition of resin production considered returning to the activity.

"The forests are still ready. And the value of having a forest that is used to work has undeniable benefits", explains Aída Rodríguez, forestry engineer and project manager at the CESEFOR FOUNDATION.

Aída is currently the coordinator of two European projects that aim precisely to revive this practice. On the one hand, for the exploitation of resin in southwest Europe (and thus obtain forest conservation and employment) and on the other hand for the promotion of non-timber forest products in the Mediterranean, such as resin.

A thousand and one uses with a sustainable root
Rodríguez explains that after the first transformation of the resin, turpentine and rosin are obtained. But from there, many derivatives can be obtained. From paints and solvents or printing inks to adhesives, cosmetics, toothpaste or depilatory waxes, among many others.

"The competition is the hydrocarbon derivatives. That is, petroleum," says the coordinator. "If you consume a product that comes from the natural exploitation of a territory, the value chain is very different from if it comes from a hydrocarbon derivative. But it is up to the industry to decide which product to work with and what criteria to use, whether it is sustainability or economy," she adds.

Ken, it is indeed an interesting topic that made me search for more articles about it. Scientists are already trying to replicate the producing mechanism of resin in pine trees in different species.  

Ken, Hope springs eternal! If this is true, I have my eye on a few acres of Pine forest. And so it goes.

Every day I learn something new.🤣🤣😱😱 Thank you for sharing it with us

@Rafael García Romano