The essential briefing on materials, markets, regulation, packaging, recycling, and the people moving the plastics industry forward.
The Co-op has become the first retailer to sign up to the ‘Plastic Industry Recycling Action Plan (PIRAP), and is calling on other retailers to follow suit. The food retailer will support the PIRAP scheme which was launched last year by WRAP and Plastics 2020 (namely BPF, PAFA and Plastics Europe) to promote plastic packaging […]
PolyOne’s Therma-Tech compounds prove their mettle replacing aluminum as an LED heat sink. Here’s my second of a three-part installment to PT’s blog on interesting information that did not get into our upcoming June cover story: New Materials Shine Bright in Growing LED Market (read the first part on LED opportunities in automotive and street […]
Following the success of a summer pilot project, resi .dents of Pointe-Claire will be finding it easier to recycle plastics The city has set up a polystyrene collection point, located at 50 Terra Cotta, where citizens can bring anything with a number six plastic symbol on it 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Plastics […]
It is believed that for every 4 million metric tonnes of plastic manufactured, 2 MMT of waste is also produced simultaneously. In the absence of proper disposal and plastic recycling facilities in place for this plastic waste, the concerns over the ever increasing environmental and health issues relating to plastic waste have been growing for […]