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 | Asia/Pacifica, Business, Daily News, Environmental, North America, Recycling, Scrap Plastics
China released a proposal to expand its scrap import ban beyond plastics and the other materials that are currently restricted. A new plan would ban every form of “solid waste” from import. The Ministry of Ecology and Environment on July 11 posted a draft document...
by Plastics.com Staff | Aug 10, 2018 | Business, Commodity Polymers, Daily News, Environmental, North America, Polymer Science
One of Delaware’s biggest polluters will be shutting down its New Castle County plant this fall, resulting in potential job losses for about 100 workers. Formosa Plastics informed state officials on Tuesday it plans to halt operations at its 50-year-old plant...
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 3, 2018 | Business, Daily News, Environmental, Global, North America, Polymer Science
As global plastic waste increases, science turns to specialized microbes to degrade previously non-degradable plastics. A bacterial species found growing in a plastic recycling plant, Ideonella sakaiensis 201-F6, exhibits an incredible and rarely seen ability to use...
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...
