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Single Use Plastics: Searching the Alternatives
In 2022, if one seeks out trends in the plastics world, then talk about “single use plastics” surely scores high. This trend began some years
In 2022, if one seeks out trends in the plastics world, then talk about “single use plastics” surely scores high. This trend began some years
The words “survivalist” or “survivalism” summon to mind a range of images, even emotions. For some these words evoke a picture of preparedness, security, and
It was not until the last one hundred years or so that plastic became the name for a category of substances called polymers. Just for fun, let’s
Plastics improve life in innumerable ways. Our English word “plastic” comes from the Latin word plasticus and the Greek word plastikos. These mean “able to be molded or formed.”
With this concluding segment of our series, we turn our attentions to polymers in particular. The 2020s have wrought changes in all segments of society,
Politics and public opinion go a long way toward steering any industry, and the plastics industry is no different. In the 2020s, the public’s rising
Plastics improve quality of life. Those of us in the plastics industry see this every day. Just the same, from time to time, it helps,
With pen and paper in hand, we sat by the fire sipping hot chocolate, scribbling out our Christmas wish list for Santa. We’d pondered, stared
Leave it to the plastics industry—long known for innovation—to come up with a game-changing new direction. Media attention on “single use plastics”—some of it unfair,