Toray Plastics (America) expands OPP film production
North Kingstown, RI — Toray Plastics (America) Inc. is investing in a new, state-of-the-art 8.7 meter polypropylene film line. The expenditure marks the next phase of Toray’s multi-year strategic plan, begun in 2016, to expand and automate production capabilities in...Science shows that it’s not really green to ban plastic bags
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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...