Category Menu Product News Those pesky plastic bags must go July 12, 2011 by plasticsinfomart Two recent news items illustrate how when commerce trumps environment, dire things happen. The first item noted that Oregon’s Senate voted down a bill that would have banned single-use plastic and paper bags. Bill sponsors had hoped a statewide measure would avoid a scattershot approach with myriad local ordinances. But the defeat had much to […] Read more »
Environment Recycling News How eco-friendly is your green bag? July 12, 2011 by plasticsinfomart Lab tests show not all green bags self-destruct or get dissolved in soil. The ‘green bag’ that you get at retail stores to carry your grocery may not be so ‘green’ after all. The case with other packaging, including magazine wrappers, may not be much different, even as those claim to be 100 per cent […] Read more »
Environment Recycling News Recycler helps solve problem of plastics July 12, 2011 by plasticsinfomart Farmers and ranchers in Western Washington once again have a place to get rid of the plastic that tends to pile up around ag operations. René Skaggs, farm resource specialist at the Pierce Conservation District, thought she had solved the problem last year, but planned pickups at feed stores in the surrounding counties just weren’t […] Read more »
Market News After a three-year wait, Cals set to cart in refinery July 12, 2011 by plasticsinfomart Cals Refineries’ proposed petroleum refinery at Haldia in West Bengal may be closer to reality following an out-of-court settlement reached with the German company contracted with supplying equipment for the unit. The project was to be set up with equipment from three dismantled refineries, the first of which was Bayernoil Raffinerie GmbH’s 45-year-old, 90,000 barrels […] Read more »
Category Menu Machinery News Vacuum-formed plastics replace real items in film and stage sets July 11, 2011 by plasticsinfomart Thermoplastic forms stand in for bricks, stonework, all manner of scenery while maintaining paintability, impact resistance, and recyclability. Whether it’s the 1954-era brick buildings in the Martin Scorsese/Leonardo DiCaprio thriller Shutter Island, turn-of-the-century cobblestone roads in the movie Beloved, or the bare cinder-block jail cell in a television crime series, set designers rely on lightweight, […] Read more »
Category Menu Product News Davis-Standard supplies easy-to-install 3-layer extrusion line to Sigma Stretch Film July 11, 2011 by plasticsinfomart Davis-Standard LLC, a US based extrusion systems provider, recently supplied a blown film line to Sigma Stretch Film’s facility in Shelbyville, part of Sigma Plastics Group in the US. According to Davis-Standard, the three-layer production line is similar to the line purchased by Sigma in 2008. It is slated for mid-2011 installation and all machines […] Read more »
Environment Recycling News The Volume of Clothing in California’s Residential Waste Stream Increases over Time… July 11, 2011 by plasticsinfomart Clothing collection boxes placed by organizations like Campus California have become increasingly common in our cities and provide a simple and cost-free option for the general public to dispose of unwanted but still usable textiles. Significant environmental benefits can be gained through clothing reuse not only because textiles in landfills generate methane and other Green […] Read more »
Category Menu Machinery News MI introduced a portable,compact and accurate opacity tester July 11, 2011 by plasticsinfomart MI has introduced a portable, compact and accurate opacity tester to check the transparency and opacity of PVC pipes and various other materials like papers, films, conduit pipes,paints, glass, plastics, cloths, etc. This instrument is a specially designed specimen holder for different material and opacity/transparency values of meters which are displayed on high contrast easy […] Read more »