by Plastics.com Staff | Mar 25, 2019 | Daily News, Environmental, Global, Recycling
By Peter Murphy — March 23rd, 2019 — “Plastics… There’s a great future in plastics.” So said “Mr. McGuire” to Dustin Hoffman’s character, Ben Braddock, in The Graduate. Indeed, Mr. McGuire was prescient. In more than half a century since he gave his succinct advice,...
by Plastics.com Staff | Mar 22, 2019 | Consumer, Daily News, Environmental, North America, Part Design
New York Post — Mugs, cups, silverware, hot sauce — you name it: If it’s in a restaurant, people will steal it, owners say. But in NYC, patron pilfering has taken a new, environmentally conscious turn: Metal straws — those trendy, sustainable cocktail accouterments —...
by Plastics.com Staff | Mar 15, 2019 | Business, Commodity Polymers, Daily News, Environmental, North America
Desmogblog.com — A new report traces the life cycle of plastic from the moment an oil and gas well is drilled to the time plastic trash breaks down in the environment, finding “distinct risks to human health” at every stage. Virtually all plastic — 99 percent of it,...
by Plastics.com Staff | Mar 14, 2019 | Africa, Daily News, Environmental
Plastics SA — Plastics SA has welcomed the Department of Environmental Affairs’ acknowledgement that government has failed to develop competent waste management facilities in the country. The Department admitted, in Parliament yesterday, that municipalities are...
by Plastics.com Staff | Mar 7, 2019 | Consumer, Daily News, Environmental, North America
Nytimes.com — For Beth Terry, the epiphany came when she read an article about how albatross chicks are being killed by discarded plastics. It was time to banish plastic from her life. First, she focused on her kitchen and got rid of the shopping bags, microwaveable...
