by Plastics.com Staff | Aug 15, 2018 | Additives & Modifiers, Consumer, Daily News, Environmental, North America
A new method for making food packaging more “slippery” could help cut food and plastic waste, researchers say. According to a study in Scientific Reports (via New Food Magazine), a technique that involves wicking chemically compatible vegetable oils into the surface...
by Plastics.com Staff | Aug 14, 2018 | Blow Molding, Business, Consumer, Daily News, North America
The chances are good that someone very close to you left the state … a brother or sister, a son or daughter. Over the past 40 years, Western New York has lost 214,000 people. The City of Niagara Falls alone saw its population drop from just over 100,000 down to 48,000...
by Plastics.com Staff | Aug 7, 2018 | Consumer, Daily News, Environmental, Global, Part Design, Recycling
As technology finds innovative ways to recycle, waste products are being used in an unlikely range of goods in high street stores. First it was “bags for life”, chunky doormats and, more recently, clothing such as fleeces, swimwear and pack-away macs. Now towels made...
by Plastics.com Staff | Aug 2, 2018 | Consumer, Daily News, Environmental, Europe, Global, Polymer Science
Three years ago, Lego pumped $155 million into a new Sustainable Materials Center, which set more than 100 employees on the task of Lego using fully sustainable materials in its products by 2030. This month, the company showed off the first brick-based fruits of those...
by Plastics.com Staff | Aug 2, 2018 | Consumer, Daily News, Environmental, North America, Part Design
2018 will forever be remembered as the year that hating plastic straws went mainstream. Once the lonely cause of environmental cranks, now everyone wants to eliminate these suckers from daily life. In July, Seattle imposed America’s first ban on plastic straws....
by Plastics.com Staff | Aug 1, 2018 | Bioplastics, Business, Consumer, Daily News, Europe
Bio-on successfully completed the first test phase for the special bioplastic production facility inaugurated on 20 June “Respecting the timeline is fundamental,” explains CEO Marco Astorri, “since the new European directive about the reduction of...
