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Bottle bills, extended producer responsibility OK by plastics association leaders

Washington — In a sign of the long-term shift in plastics industry positions on environmental legislation, the head of t

38 Products Reviewers Say You Can't Beat The Price On

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Confusing signals from PET recyclers

Recycling is a big public policy and industry focus, obviously. Post-consumer content is also important for brand owners

A Closer Look at 3D Printing Materials: Plastics

A Closer Look at 3D Printing Materials: Plastics - 3Dnatives

Prototyping of digitally manufactured thin glass composite façade panels

Date: 23 June 2023 Authors: Daniel Pfarr & Christian Louter Source: Architecture, Structures and Construction, Springer

3D Printering: Can You Ever Have Enough Vitamins?

As a community we owe perhaps more than we realise to the RepRap project. From it we get not only a set of open-source p

Recycling operators cheer list of problematic plastics

PS packaging made the list of problematic materials.| Minh Mi Goi/Shutterstock The U.S. Plastics Pact says PS and PVC pa

The clamor for plastic barriers outpaces supply

A demand for plastic barriers that first surged in March from retailers such as grocery, hardware and auto parts stores

Derailed Train in Ohio Carried Chemical Used to Make PVC, ‘the Worst’ of the Plastics

The flames and deadly black smoke that billowed high over a small town on the Ohio and Pennsylvania border Monday were a

Submersion Journalism, by Matthew Gavin Frank

Illustrations by Chloe Niclas I can’t swim and I’m afraid of the ocean, and I was about to dive to two thousand feet in

Holcim cements $1.29B Duro

The world's biggest cement maker, Switzerland's Holcim Ltd., closed a $1.29 billion deal on April 3 to buy Saginaw, Mich

Utility Mat Turns Waste Epoxy Into Useful Tools

Epoxy is a great and useful material typically prepared by mixing two components together. But often we find ourselves m