by Plastics.com Staff | May 20, 2018 | Business, Daily News, Environmental, Europe, Global, Polymer Science, Recycling
The Port of Amsterdam will soon be home to a chemical plant designed to convert non-recyclable plastics into usable diesel fuel using pyrolysis. The Port of Amsterdam and the facility’s operator, Dutch startup Bin2Barrel, believe that its operation will reduce...
by Plastics.com Staff | May 18, 2018 | Daily News, Environmental, Global, North America
Nearly half of fish species studied may not be ingesting harmful plastics There’s growing concern about the amount of plastic ending up in the world’s oceans, but researchers at Memorial University of Newfoundland have found one fish that doesn’t...
by Plastics.com Staff | May 18, 2018 | Daily News, Environmental, Global
When we think of plastic pollution, we think of images of plastic bags on the beach, suffering marine life and the almost invisible smog of microplastics in our ocean. What often gets overlooked is the fact that conventional plastic is made from fossil fuels, and is a...
by Plastics.com Staff | May 17, 2018 | Business, Commodity Polymers, Daily News, Environmental, Film Extrusion, Global, North America
Quebec Government LCA proves the conventional plastic shopping bag is NOT single-use MONTREAL, May 9, 2018 /CNW/ – The first-ever Canadian scientific study of plastic shopping bags provides definitive proof that the conventional thin plastic shopping bag (17...
by Plastics.com Staff | May 16, 2018 | All End Markets, All Materials, All Processes, Business, Daily News, Global
Record attendance at new exhibition centre in Shanghai / Speedy, high-end production / E-commerce and digitalisation expanding in China’s plastics industry “New Age, New Era, New Technology” was a motto of “Chinaplas 2018”...
by Plastics.com Staff | May 16, 2018 | All Materials, All Processes, Business, Daily News, Global, North America
The Plastics Industry Association (PLASTICS) concluded NPE2018: The Plastics Show, the largest plastics show in history attracting more than 2,180 exhibiting companies. Attendees spent the week uncovering innovation, business intelligence and opportunity, across more...
