With the triennial K Show in Düsseldorf, Germany, due to open its doors this Oct. 19-26 to some 3,000 exhibitors from 61 nations, many companies are scrambling to make key product introductions. At the same time, they also are looking forward to re-establishing face-to-face contact with many...
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology continue to innovate when it comes to creating new materials. Two different groups of chemical engineers at MIT recently revealed their respective work–– one involving a new type of lightweight, super-strong plastic, and the other a...
On the day the Plastics Packaging Tax comes into force (1st April, 2022), Philip Law, Director-General of the BPF, tells InterplasInsights where the confusion still lies. Plus, he looks at the ongoing war in Ukraine, and how it is affecting UK resin supplies. Read more here . #Plastics ...
New Golden Design Rules from the Consumer Goods Forum Driving Action Towards a Circular Economy for Plastic Packaging. In collaboration with the Consumer Goods Forum , a cross-value chain group of major brand owners, recyclers and plastics associations are working on a set of ‘golden rules’...
The birthplace of NBA star Lebron James also is home to the world's top polymer science and plastics engineering program. Yes, we're talking about Akron, Ohio, home of the University of Akron, which recently won that plastics and polymers designation from global ranking site EduRank. Read more ...
A smart food packaging using corn proteins and infused with antimicrobial active ingredients (AIs) is said to kill bacteria in food and extend shelf-life by two to three days. Read more here . #Plastics #FoodPackaging #Biopolymers #Antimicrobial
The United States generates more plastic trash than any other country – about 46.3 million tons of it, or 287 pounds per person a year, according to a 2020 study. The country’s 9% rate of recycling will never keep up. Why so low? The chemistry of today’s plastics makes most difficult to...
Once recovered, wood waste can be combined with plastics to form wood-plastic composites, which have a wide scope of potential uses. A paper published in Polymers has explored this subject. Read more here . #Polymer #Plastics #Composites #Wood #Sustainable
Researchers from the University of Birmingham and Duke University, US, have created a new family of polymers from sustainable sources that retain all of the same qualities as conventional plastics, but are also degradable and mechanically recyclable. Read more here . #Plastics ...
For the first time, a wide range of plastics can now be differentiated and thereby separated according to their chemical composition. This is ground-breaking and it will increase the rate of recycling of plastics immensely. The technology has already been tested at pilot scale and it will be...
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