by Plastics.com Staff | Oct 3, 2018 | Business, Commodity Polymers, Consumer, Daily News, North America, Polymer Science
Houston Chronicle — Working in nearly 100-degree heat, sweating through mud-stained coveralls, four roustabouts wrestled with 30-foot sections of pipe that would follow a drill bit plunging some 13,000 feet into the earth, then turning nearly 90 degrees to chew...
by Plastics.com Staff | Sep 10, 2018 | Consumer, Daily News, Environmental, Europe, Global, Injection Molding, Part Design
Billund, Denmark — At the heart of this town lies a building that is a veritable temple to the area’s most famous creation, the humble Lego brick. It is filled with complex creations, from a 50-foot tree to a collection of multicoloured dinosaurs, all of them built...
by Plastics.com Staff | Aug 24, 2018 | Consumer, Daily News, Environmental, Global, Recycling
Two articles; pro & con… Save the planet: Choose plastic shopping bags There’s a worldwide movement to get rid of plastic shopping bags and replace them with paper or reusable cotton tote bags. The claimed reason is to combat litter and to save the planet,...
by Plastics.com Staff | Aug 17, 2018 | Consumer, Daily News, Environmental, Global, Packaging
How much would it cost to switch to plastic alternatives? Richard Gray crunches the numbers. More than 78 million tonnes of plastic packaging is produced worldwide every year by an industry worth nearly $198 billion. Just a fraction of that is recycled while the vast...
by Plastics.com Staff | Aug 16, 2018 | Business, Commodity Polymers, Consumer, Daily News, North America, Part Design, Profile
When “American Horror Story,” the Museum of Modern Art and “Napoleon Dynamite” pay homage to an invention, you know it’s made a cultural impact in a big way. Tupperware has a staying power that most plastic products don’t. So far, it has evaded the anti-plastics...
by Plastics.com Staff | Aug 16, 2018 | Consumer, Daily News, Environmental, North America
NEW YORK — Now that plastic straws may be headed for extinction, could Americans’ love of balloons be deflated? The joyous celebration of releasing balloons into the air has long bothered environmentalists, who say the pieces that fall back to earth can be deadly to...
