His father was the director of plastics procurement at Denton Plastics.
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The bride's father is president of 405 Plastics & Distribution, a plastics manufacturer there.
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Since most plastics come from fossil fuels, our plastics dependency is also exacerbating climate change.
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How about replacing most oil-derived plastics with bio-based plastics, like from corn or sugarcane?
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Last year, Canada sponsored a G7 ocean plastics charter intended to spur a reduction in plastics use.
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Some places, like Minneapolis, have stopped accepting black plastics and rigid No. 6 plastics like disposable cups.
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And because plastics are so cheap and useful, the number of items made from plastics is skyrocketing.
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Plastics in landfills can leech out toxins, and these plastics and toxins can end up in local waterways.
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Shares in flagship Formosa Plastics Corp were down 0.1 percent, while Nan Ya Plastics Corp rose 0.3 percent.
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There's limited evidence some plastics can biodegrade (one solution requires mealworms) but largely plastics photodegrade in the sun.
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It's cheaper for most companies to buy higher-quality new plastics than it is to use recycled plastics.
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Producing plastics fated to end up as litter is a waste, especially when these plastics pollute our oceans.
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"I don't believe there is a global plastics pollution problem - there is a global plastics ignorance problem," said Seah.
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Daniel Solomita: Not only are we using waste plastics, but we're using waste plastics that have no value today.
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Three stocks in particular weigh heavily on the Taiwanese index — Formosa Plastics, Nan Ya Plastics and Formosa Chemicals & Fibre.
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The private equity firm previously owned Berry Plastics, now called Berry Global, a U.S.-based plastics manufacturer and marketer.
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When he started his plastics company, he bought a copy of an American trade magazine, Modern Plastics, each month.
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FRANKFURT/MILAN (Reuters) - Italian plastics multinational Mossi Ghisolfi has attracted interest from a series of buyers, including plastics maker Indorama (IVL.
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Scientists are also experimenting with degrading plastics using: Chemical recycling: Different acids and bases can be used to break down plastics.
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To date, most of the concerns for human health has focused on these additives in the plastics but not the plastics themselves.
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The prize is part of a larger, three-year initiative called "New Plastics Economy," to build momentum towards a more sustainable plastics system.
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It is snowing plastics in the arctic — a team of German researchers found more than 10,000 micro-plastics in one liter of snow.
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"This is the first time in my lifetime and in the plastics industry's lifetime where we make plastics resin for export," said Levine.
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For our Deep Dive on plastics, Axios commissioned artist Steve McPherson to create a custom piece using plastics washed onto the coastline of England.
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Black plastics are colored using carbon black, a type of industrial pigment that is a desired additive in plastics for its durability and color.
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Plastics Some of the world's largest consumer-goods companies are trying to tackle the globe's plastics problem by offering people an alternative to recycling.
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The earliest plastics were made from modified natural polymers like cellulose, but most plastics today are based on synthetic polymers that last much longer.
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But the plastics that do make it there can stick around for perhaps decades—the researchers say they've pulled out plastics from the 1970s.
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"China used to accept most of the #3, 4, 5, and 7 plastics, but it turns out that most of these plastics were not actually being recycled," the city of Erie, Pennsylvania, which no longer accepts those types of plastics, notes on its website.
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After the plastics go through processing and refinement, Dell mixes the ocean plastic with other recycled HDPE plastics to make packaging trays for its laptops.
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Plastics can be mixed with pigments, other materials and other plastics, which complicate recycling and limit how the chemical components of plastic can be reused.
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The researchers detected bromine in nearly half of the black plastics, while lead and antimony were found in about a quarter of the black plastics.
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And, despite what you've been led to believe, not all plastics are recyclable, and sadly not all recyclable plastics end up, you know, being recycled.
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It's typically composed of petroleum-based synthetics and plastics, which pollute our waterways with micro plastics and end up in landfills for centuries to come.
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That means setting clear targets for eliminating the most problematic, unrecyclable plastics first, and working toward eliminating all throwaway plastics in the years to follow.
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By pulling plastics out of the ocean and recycling them into a commercially viable way, they hope to keep harmful micro plastics from troubling ocean waters.
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Still, it's the most ambitious federal legislation on plastics introduced to-date, a response to the plastics piling up in the oceans and in our bodies.
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Or, said Peeken, marine creatures could simply swallow floating plastics after the ice melts, and the plastics could then be incrementally passed up the food chain.
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The plastics plan also set targets for all plastic packaging on the EU market to be recyclable by 2030 and single-use plastics to be reduced.
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If Cepsa's IPO had gone smoothly, Mubadala was expected to start preparations to list plastics and chemicals company Nova and Austrian plastics firm Borealis, sources said.
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"That is why in addition to minimizing plastics use and collecting waste, we want to close the loop and make more plastics infinitely recyclable," he added.
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Kate took part in an educational treasure hunt and an ocean plastics sea-bird activity, which highlights the damage caused by single use plastics and promotes sustainability.
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Plastics are linked to health risks, especially for kidsI've read countless articles about our addiction to plastics and the devastation that plastic trash wreaks on marine life.
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Single-use plastics should be restricted, and my organization petitioned the EPA to regulate some plastics as hazardous waste to ensure safe handling from cradle to grave.
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The company said it plans to achieve the ambitious goal by slashing its use of plastics by 100,85033 metric tons in addition to using more recycled plastics.
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What this means is that we need bold upstream solutions that reduce unnecessary single-use plastics and prevent plastics from entering the ocean from the start. Sen.
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Much of the other federal plastics legislation that's been introduced in the U.S. aims to boost recycling but doesn't include reducing plastics production as this new bill does.
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More broadly, the report's long-term forecast shows that recycling and efforts to curb single-use plastics will be "far outweighed" by rising plastics consumption in developing economies.
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The city started selling its plastics to a facility in Southern California with optical sorting, a high-tech system that uses light to determine which plastics are recyclable.
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Additionally, a group of members of the House of Representatives recently launched the Congressional Plastics Solutions Task Force to explore ideas around plastics recycling and waste management issues.
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In theory, it should be cheaper to re-use glass than to buy plastics again and again, especially as there are often costs associated with dumping these plastics.
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Designers have embraced "plastic free" as a new challenge, whether it's building a supermarket aisle without plastics or making eco-friendly clothing that does not involve "virgin" plastics.
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Identifying what types of plastics are recyclable can be challenging because plastics do not always carry a resin code and because not all recycling programs are equal, either.
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The plastics report, which can be downloaded in its entirety here, was produced by the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, based on interviews with over 230 experts in the plastics industry.
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The authors are calling for the accurate labelling of plastics products so that consumers can figure out what kinds of plastics they should be putting in the recycling bin.
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"I think we&aposre seeing rising regulatory pressures globally on bans around plastics and single-use plastics," Sarah Bratton Hughes, a sustainable investment director at Schroders, told Business Insider.
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But keeping the tiny plastics out of the environment won't be so easy as an outright ban—synthetic textiles, like plastics in general, are now indispensable in modern life.
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"The overarching vision of the New Plastics Economy is that plastics never become waste; rather, they re-enter the economy as valuable technical or biological nutrients," the report states.
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Patty Long, interim president and CEO of the Plastics Industry Association, told CNBC that environmental group Greenpeace has been pressuring several brands that are members of the plastics group to leave.
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The Taiwan Plastics index, comprised of 23 plastics manufacturer stocks, is tightly correlated to the Philadelphia Semiconductor Sector index, or the SOX; both indexes' components are heavily related to semiconductor manufacturing.
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The Church of England has created a calendar for a plastics-free Lent, each day bearing either an environmentally-themed Bible verse or a suggestion on how to avoid buying plastics.
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Now I can go on – we use recycled plastics.
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Plastics, in all forms — straws, bottles, packaging, bags, etc.
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The company invests over $1 billion annually on research and development, of which new plastics innovation is a component, but declined to tell CNBC how much its plastics initiatives specifically are costing.
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"At the Plastics Industry Association, we believe uncollected plastics do not belong in our oceans or waterways," said Scott DeFife, vice president of governmental affairs for PIA, a D.C.-based trade association.
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Despite opposition from restaurant and industry groups, progress on banning straws and other single-use plastics won't be stopped, Kate Melges, who leads the anti-plastics campaign for Greenpeace, said via email.
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Formosa Plastics is also proposing another major plastics plant in St. James Parish, La., one of the dozens of plastic plants now in the pipeline for the Gulf Coast and Rust Belt.
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Dr Jamieson suspects it has to do with the trench's proximity to the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre, a whirlpool hundreds of kilometres across that has amassed enormous quantities of plastics over the years, and which has the potential to send the pollutants that bind to those plastics deep into the ocean as the plastics degrade and descend.
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Yesterday's "plastics" are today's crypto tokens If the Braddocks were throwing a pool party today, their son Ben wouldn't be contemplating a career in plastics; he'd know the future is in crypto tokens.
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"When the stock is cheap, which it now has been for a while, that just means that if it makes it very hard for recycled plastics to compete with virgin plastics," said Geyer.
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Because plastics break down over time by exposure to sunlight, wave action, abrasion or ingestion by marine species, it is difficult to estimate the exact amount of plastics currently contained within the ocean.
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Plastics aren't just strangling animals, but us too Scientists have revealed that the toxins from plastics in the ocean can leach into seawater and inhibit the growth and efficiency of the bacteria Prochlorococcus.
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We could demand legislation to curb the production of plastics.
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Some plastics are denser than water and do not float.
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"I don't believe that we should demonize plastics," said Suh.
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Today, around 10 percent of plastics are recycled, noted Suh.
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Engineering plastics co Source text for Eikon: Further company coverage:
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Then there's the fact that plastics are made from oil.
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Globally, less than 20% of plastics were recycled in 2015.
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CY, and at chemicals and plastics distributor Nexeo Solutions NXEO.
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Plastics from America and Europe have piled up in landfills.
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And other materials could not replace plastics in all circumstances.
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Regina, the Honey Badger of the Plastics, finds it hilarious.
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Now they are stepping away from a plastics lobbying group.
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And unrecycled materials increase the demand for new plastics worldwide.
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The Plastics Industry Association is not only a lobbying group.
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Unlike the plastics typically used in shoes, Biosteel is biodegradable.
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But that doesn't mean we'll never see the Plastics again.
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The tanks contained fuels used to make gasoline and plastics.
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Basically, all the red plastics were used as the innards.
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Car parts, agricultural products and plastics go the other way.
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Substituting this with recycled plastics is a great first step.
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If we ingest the plastics, we may ingest the bacteria.
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"There are alternatives" to all sorts of plastics, he said.
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The Plastics welcome Cady in her first pink Wednesday look.
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The alliance is a project of the Plastics Industry Association.
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I am surrounded by concrete, glass, plastics, iron, and steel.
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The chief executive at a plastics company was playing golf.
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Other researchers are tackling the plastics problem in different ways.
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Above 2628,28503 kilograms of plastics were produced globally in 22019.
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Not plastics (though yes, that was from "The Graduate"). Parkas.
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The most common plastics found were polypropylene and polyethylene terephthalate.
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The glasses were well packed, though, with some protective plastics.
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We'd like to see less plastics in the world too.
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Some days, I feel like I can't escape disposable plastics.
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It was purchased for the sole purpose of heating plastics.
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Plastics give off gases that can cause clothes to yellow.
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The industry processes it into renewable plastics, paper, and clothing.
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Go deeper: Axios' Deep Dive on the global plastics problem
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It's common knowledge that sunlight can cause plastics to weather.
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Harvey knocked out about 60 percent of base plastics manufacturing.
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DUESSELDORF, Germany (Reuters) - German chemicals and plastics maker Covestro's (1COV.
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Oceans, lakes, rivers and wells are all clogged with plastics.
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After use, these natural plastics are easily degraded by microorganisms.
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And some domestic recycling facilities have stopped accepting certain types of plastics altogether: They can't make enough money by selling their recycled materials to justify the costs of actually recycling many types of plastics.
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There are a variety of different types of plastics that are more or less difficult to recycle based on the complexity of the plastic's molecular structure, which requires plastics to be sorted by type.
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The Philippines ranked third in the world for failing to deal with its plastics, according to a 2015 study by the University of Georgia, which said 81 percent of its plastics waste was mismanaged.
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After China banned used plastics this year, many municipalities in the United States no longer accept plastics numbered 3 to 7, which can include things like yogurt cups, butter tubs and vegetable oil bottles.
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They alleged that at eight plants manufacturing plastics or chemicals that are used to make plastics, the oil giant improperly modified or incorrectly used flaring systems, which burn air pollutants before they are emitted.
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Mainland China only accepts pelleted plastics (plastics broken down by a machine into tiny bits) because the government is strict about the waste it imports, a hardline trash policy referred to as the Green Fence.
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Whereas salt and sunlight can cause plastics physically to break apart into smaller pieces, chemically the hydrocarbons linked together into the polymer chains of which plastics are made do not spontaneously decompose into other compounds.
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Even when the price of certain plastics declined slightly, the decline was partially self-correcting because corporations no longer needed to recycle waste plastic for economic reasons and demand for new plastics rose even more.
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Plastic that can be broken down gets mixed in with other plastics with different textures and compositions, described as a "hodgepodge of chopped-up plastics," making it hard to predict which properties will be inherited.
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It's still unknown how ingesting plastics affects human health, noted Mendenhall.
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Few communities in Africa separate plastics from other waste, he said.
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But plastics are the biggest problem, with only 10% currently recycled.
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Plastics are expected to outweigh fish in the ocean by 2050.
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The plastics tariffs alone could send ripples deep into Trump country.
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As it turns out, sorting and recycling plastics properly costs more.
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But we use many plastics only once — and promptly discard them.
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Mean Girls is back — and the Plastics are singing this time!
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Oil and natural gas provide the building blocks of most plastics.
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Once burned, plastics give off volatile organics, some of them carcinogenic.
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"But I think we have a major problem worldwide with plastics."
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Plastics that mimick estrogen turn a beluga whale into a hermaphrodite.
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The amount of garbage, particularly plastics, in our oceans is staggering.
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Because some plastics lobby or baby gear maker paid off Congress.
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Trump will promote turning natural gas into plastics (The Associated Press).
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Plastics and rubber manufacturing cut 78,700 jobs between 2001 and 2017.
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The researchers warn of the potential health implications of airborne plastics.
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Investment went into solar panel and plastics factories, among other areas.
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Are chemicals leaching out of these plastics and then causing toxicity?
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Some recyclable bioplastics even have performance capabilities that exceed conventional plastics.
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And plastics increasingly appear in art and artifacts nominated for preservation.
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Among their goals is to find new uses for old plastics.
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There will be plastics, and concrete and other so-called technofossils.
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Genecis Bioindustries: Genecis Bioindustries is turning food waste into compostable plastics.
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Well, wood and even some plastics don't mix well with fabric.
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That means the Plastics have Snapchat and Instagram in their arsenal.
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This year, the Church of England suggested forsaking another indulgence: plastics.
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The production of diesel, aviation fuel and plastics will then follow.
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Sales in packaging and specialty plastics unit, its biggest, tumbled 18%.
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As the plastic has piled up, so has the plastics legislation.
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Unwanted plastics clog landfills and sully city streets and nature preserves.
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Plastics is also solving a challenge for the state's fracking industry.
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Plastics is also solving a challenge for the state's fracking industry.
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Plastics is only part of the sustainable lab puzzle for them.
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Formosa Plastics did not respond to VICE News' request for comment.
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They are Personnel Staffing Group, the Segerdahl Group, Mercury Plastics Inc.
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Related: Biodegradable Plastic Is Bullshit The plastics industry welcomed the report.
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Compagnie De Saint Gobain Sa: * MERRIMACK VILLAGE DISTRICT AND SAINT-GOBAIN PERFORMANCE PLASTICS REACH SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT * SAINT-GOBAIN PERFORMANCE PLASTICS - UNDER TERMS OF AGREEMENT, SGPPL AGREES TO PAY OVER NEXT 5 YRS FOR FUTURE OPERATION & MAINTENANCE OF SYSTEM * SAINT-GOBAIN PERFORMANCE PLASTICS - UNDER AGREEMENT, CO TO PAY TO REIMBURSE MVD FOR COSTS IT REPORTED IN RELATION TO DETECTION OF PFOA IN WELLS * SAINT-GOBAIN PERFORMANCE PLASTICS - UNDER AGREEMENT, CO AGREES TO PAY FOR DESIGN, CONSTRUCTION & INSTALLATION OF SYSTEM Source text for Eikon: Further company coverage:
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Recognizing that plastics play an important role in our economy and daily lives but that the current approach to producing, using, managing and disposing of plastics and poses a significant threat to the marine environment, to livelihoods and potentially to human health, we the Leaders of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, the United Kingdom, and the European Union endorse the G7 Ocean Plastics Charter.
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The new bill, the Break Free from Plastics Act, takes cues from the states, which, in the last several years, have begun to regulate plastics more aggressively: New York's plastic bag ban, passed last year, will go into effect at the end of the month, and California and Maine have already instituted restrictions on the use of plastic straws and single-use plastics.
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In December, an important milestone was reached when 153 countries signed a United Nations resolution to monitor plastics disposal in the oceans and 39 countries committed to reducing the quantity of plastics going into the sea.
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Given projected growth in consumption, without new anti-pollution policies oceans are expected by 2050 to contain more plastics than fish by weight, according to the New Plastics Economy report published by Ellen MacArthur Foundation in 2016.
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"There are environmental and health impacts arising from the production and use of plastics in general, but black plastics pose greater risks and hazards," Andrew Turner, a researcher at the University of Plymouth said in a statement.
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The Philippines alleged that Chronic Plastics, a Canadian company, had shipped the nearly 2,500 tons of trash in 2013 and 85033, saying the shipping containers had been mislabeled as recyclable plastics before they arrived in the Philippines.
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It makes machinery for processing plastics and rubber, not the materials themselves.
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Innovations in plastics and monofilaments lengthened fishing lines from feet to miles.
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TechCrunch comment: Make it EASY to buy recycled plastics rather than hard.
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Single-use plastics may currently be out of vogue with green groups.
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One of the biggest perpetrators of single-use plastics is the kitchen.
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But there are ways to pull those plastics out of the sea.
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The brothers named the building after their pioneering plastics manufacturing company, PlascoKar.
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Chevy's attractive dual cockpit interior is made of hard but quality plastics.
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Monsanto has produced synthetic fibers, plastics including polystyrenes, pesticides, and agrichemical products.
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To recycling experts, the shift could prompt a reckoning for plastics recycling.
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New plastics are made from the byproducts of oil and gas production.
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Phthalates These chemicals soften plastics and help scents and chemicals bind together.
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But this doesn't mean the plastics get sequestered down there for good.
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German plastics and chemicals company Covestro rose 2.5 percent after its results.
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He has conducted high-profile campaigns against plastics and wood-burning stoves.
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Its listed units include Formosa Plastics Corp and Formosa Chemicals & Fiber Corp.
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What's happening with plastics right now is a good example of why.
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Another four will fashion the gas into plastics or carbon-fibre composites.
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And now I'm moving into translucent plastics, but still with embroidered details.
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The CPSC is proposing a new determination for additives in certain plastics.
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This includes textiles, rugs, as well as furniture, mattresses, plastics and lighting.
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It seems that fish like plastics the way teenagers like fast food.
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Petrochemical plants use LPG to produce propylene in order to make plastics.
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Microplastics are a particular problem & produced when plastics start to break down.
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Chitin-based plastics, on the other hand, are a little more realistic.
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Plastics and their effect on the environment, however, has not been discussed.
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Apart from the new plastics, the pen itself has also been revamped.
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"Us"—Americans, at least—aren't contributing significantly to the ocean plastics problem.
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Most of the litter and pollution affecting oceans also derives from plastics.
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That could be used to make plastics to shield habitats against radiation.
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It said non-military targets such as a plastics factory were hit.
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Plastics at sea can pick up toxic chemicals and cart them around.
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Diageo added that it was investing in reusable, compostable or biodegradable plastics.
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Related: McDonald's and Starbucks hit by plastics ban in India Environmental cost?
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It aims tonotbring back one trend from the '90s: single-use plastics.
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But those plans were spurred by government regulations banning single-use plastics.
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Recycled plastics accounted for just over 6% of Samsung's total plastic consumption.
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People are getting more and more unhappy about plastics in the ocean.
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Ethylene is a key building block for plastics, polyester and synthetic rubber.
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But even then, Ferreira removed about 80% of polypropylene plastics, on average.
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Polyethylene is used in packaging, pipes, bottles, plastics and other composite materials.
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There's gonna be like "The National Geographic Tour of Plastics" or something.
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The beach shelters the ribs of chicks once they burst with plastics.
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Go deeper: Plastic straws play only minor role in global plastics pollution
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Most of the resin and plastics are almost exclusively available in China.
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For the most part plastics are cheap and versatile, lightweight yet strong.
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Plastics can be stiff or flexible, opaque or transparent, durable or fragile.
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As the plastics break down, they release toxic chemicals, threatening marine life.
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Depending on where you live, some plastics are recyclable — and some aren't.
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For some, the new ban on plastics does not go far enough.
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LONDON — The queen has backed efforts to curb the use of plastics.
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The Plastics danced to the Christmas tune at the winter talent show.
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And it does have some suction and is made with quality plastics.
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Plastics bans have a long tradition of bubbling up from the grassroots.
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"We should be developing a circular economy for plastics," the group said.
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Some of the companies sued have said they're already fighting plastics pollution.
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I avoided single-use plastics like coffee cups and disposable water bottles.
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Washington considers banning disposable plastics in restaurants and grocery stores, Crosscut reports.
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Controls are laid out logically, with high quality plastics covering most surfaces.
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Modern science has grown up with disposable plastics, but times are changing.
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Any time there's commerce, we know that plastics can't be far behind.
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RPC, Europe's biggest plastics packager, this month extended the deadline to Dec.
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It said a plastics factory was also hit, causing a large fire.
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Another 12 percent of plastics is incinerated, which results in toxic fumes.
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Go deeper: Oil companies double down on plastics as public outcry grows
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It took years of research, development and marketing to optimize synthetic plastics.
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Not just food, but single-use plastics, and fossil fuels and energy.
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The Convention on Biological Diversity counts 20153 species affected by ocean plastics.
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A few decades of heavy use have spread plastics around the globe.
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Large plastics will, over time, degrade into small particles known as microplastics.
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The EU is hoping to fully ban most single-use plastics, too.
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In the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a vast expanse of plastics trapped by ocean currents In the Central Pacific Ocean, microplastics comprise a majority of the plastics pollution, according to a recent study published in the journal Nature.
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In October, Ocean Conservancy published the Plastics Policy Playbook, a culmination of a year of research into various solutions available to address the ocean plastics crisis in some of the places around the world most impacted by it.
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" Thus "Plastics," which, of course, most people hate, when they bother to think about plastics at all, because of their role in poisoning the environment, not to mention the word's status as a synonym for "cheap" or "phony.
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After Antonelli sketched a quick history of plastics (upside: "really great toothbrushes"; downside: the Great Pacific Garbage Patch ), Christina Agapakis, a scientist and an artist, explained how bacteria could be the key to fixing environmental problems caused by plastics.
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Of course, there are some cases where single-use plastics are really useful.
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It also absorbs toxins faster than other plastics, and it is not biodegradable.
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Goldman has worked with companies and groups with ties to the plastics industry.
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"There is very large uncertainty about the harms that plastics do," he said.
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It is now providing similar help with the attempt to sort mixed plastics.
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His father owns a company whose products range from musical instruments to plastics.
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These are further processed into products such as plastics, soaps or synthetic fibers.
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Plastics: Last year we saw a sharp spike in awareness around plastic pollution.
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Microplastics, or plastics that are smaller than five millimeters, are just about everywhere.
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The fact is, the most common plastics currently have the highest recycling rates.
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Algae and bacteria tend to stick to the small plastics, weighing them down.
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Ethane is the single largest feedstock (raw material) for petrochemicals used in plastics.
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Bamboo is finding its way into a range of new plywoods and plastics.
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"It's a good direction," said Yukihiro Misawa, plastics policy manager at WWF Japan.
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As of yet, there is no magical solution for dealing with perishable plastics.
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We have sipped, packaged and played our way into a global plastics crisis.
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It is as if Norway had a monopoly on oil, petrochemicals and plastics.
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MR MCGUIRE had just one word for young Benjamin, in "The Graduate": plastics.
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The perception of plastics as ugly, unnatural, inauthentic and disposable is not new.
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But the Plastics Industry Association has encouraged states to make plastic bans illegal.
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Or maybe it's the contaminants in them, like plastics that leach from packaging.
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They're also exploring alternatives to plastics, like aluminum, that are easier to recycle.
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The plastics association said Greenpeace is responsible for companies' withdrawal from the group.
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Supervisor Katy Tang called the negative environmental impact of single-use plastics astronomical.
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That means no glass, paperboard, plastics or metal waste are sent to landfills.
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The division, the company's second biggest, makes plastics used in pipes and siding.
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It turns out that the fish of 2016 are instead noshing on plastics.
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"I know that single-use plastics take many years to decompose," she says.
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But the larger plastics issue within fashion right now can't be ignored either.
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These microscopic plastics can be released when washing your nylon or polyester garments.
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Japan has eight categories of trash, including combustibles, noncombustibles, plastics and plastic bottles.
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Sure, you may be inhaling plastics but what do you think menthols are?
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The plastics industry criticized Cuomo's proposal, saying it would be counterintuitive and costly.
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In the European Union, only 6% of plastic demand is for recycled plastics.
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Getaway cabins use wood, glass and some metal but forgo plastics and composites.
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Now, researchers have found rubber and plastics such as varnish in Arctic snow.
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Janis Ian's angsty aesthetic proved she was the complete opposite of the Plastics.
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The Plastics' Halloween costumes were equally over-the-top, including Regina's bunny look.
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The Plastics pushed the envelope at the talent show in their Santa outfits.
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At time of writing, the plastics video had a more robust 8.79343,171 views.
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Why it matters for energy: Plastics are a major source of oil demand.
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Plastics have to be cleaned, sorted, and melted to be reshaped and reused.
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He anticipated that plastics would become a booming industry, and he was right.
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Up to nine different kinds of plastics were detected, ranging in size from .
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Shrinking and additive migration are two of the most common ways plastics degrade.
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Despite their notoriety as a major pollutant, plastics have important stories to tell.
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I think most people can cut down on single-use plastics like straws.
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And depending on where you live, some plastics are recyclable — and some aren't.
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The drive to reduce the use of plastics has accelerated considerably in Britain.
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For starters, you can cut down on single-use plastics like water bottles.
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Defruyt says only 2% of Nestlé's plastics packaging is made from recycled material.
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These companies range from retailers, plastics producers, shipping, fisheries and aquaculture, among others.
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Instead, the Plastics dance to an original holiday tune, "Rockin' Around the Pole."
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But this requires single-use plastics that are wreaking havoc on the environment.
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Demand has increased because of an environmental movement to eliminate single use plastics.
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Like many in her field, Gilliam got through a lot of disposable plastics.
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His spokeswoman brushed aside a question that was not on the plastics issue.
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Leather and wood cover most touchpoints, with soft plastics filling in the gaps.
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BPA, parabens and antimicrobials are widely used in personal care products and plastics.
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It enjoys an Instagram-fuelled tailwind from successful campaigns against plastics and fur.
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Trex Company, the fund's fifth largest holding, makes house decks from recycled plastics.
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It's also for this reason around a third of all plastics escape collection.
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We'll never phase out plastics entirely—they're just too useful, particularly in medicine.
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In my view, single-use plastics should eventually be required to be biodegradable.
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Here are nine steps to help cut your use of single-use plastics.
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Is there anything besides plastics you are attempting to replace with agro-waste?
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But plastics now, no one sees any lifting on those restrictions anytime soon.
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Some of these plastics, once they're in the ocean, break down into microplastics.
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That relationship is perilous for our planet and our livelihoods, since it only compounds the pollution caused by plastics: Over 99% of plastics are made from chemicals sourced in fossil fuels, according to research from the Center for International Environmental Law.
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Over 60 pledges were made under the European plastics strategy unveiled in January, which called on companies to voluntarily increase their use of recycled plastics in lieu of regulation after China stopped taking the world's waste due to pollution concerns.
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The US plastics industry has been pushing for a similar strategy for dealing with plastic waste — particularly the latest class of thinner, lightweight plastics that don't fit into existing recycling streams — but critics note that burning plastic still emits toxic chemicals.
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The use of plastics, especially single-use plastics, has skyrocketed since the 1990s according to Jennifer Lavers, a research scientist at the Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies at the University of Tasmania and the lead author on the study.
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Yu concedes that the company's compostable plastics won't be cost-competitive with commodity petroleum plastics, especially as the price of oil drops to unprecedented lows, but believes there's still a market in premium foods, 3D filaments and the medical industry.
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But what's unique is that the California city is targeting more than just plastics.
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The sludge can contain microfibers from clothes and other plastics washed into the sewers.
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In industry, they're used to start other chemical reactions to create plastics and pharmaceuticals.
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Recycling isn't the answer, especially considering that 22% of plastics aren't recycled at all.
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Made of durable TPU and ABS plastics, you also get protection for your handset.
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It's also used in a variety of plastics and in car clutches and brakes.
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The interior materials are hard plastics that look cheap and it's behind on tech.
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Source: Science Advances, Production, use, and fate of all plastics ever made, July 2017.
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Plastics and plastic bottles should all be made to sink to the ocean floor.
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Other firms are working on similar techniques to produce everything from plastics to pesticides.
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The Plastics might rule the school, but there is no one cooler than Janis.
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It's quieter inside, and the plastics appear to be put together with more care.
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For more convincing counterfeits, natural shells, spices and herbs are used with the plastics.
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It moves with the current and collects faster moving plastics as they float by.
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But it's mainly used in a variety of other products, including paint and plastics.
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Plastics are increasingly hardwired into the global economy, from shipping to building to computing.
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To what degree the world restricts plastics could eat into the industry's growth plans.
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The Plastics, as awful as they acted, were one of the original girl groups.
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Some were trapped inside shops, shops crammed with highly flammable clothing, perfumes and plastics.
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They're made out of simple, generic plastics, which makes them featherlight and quite durable.
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" Berry Plastics Group: "We did a piece about this saying it was incredibly undervalued.
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Saudi-Canadian trade consists largely of Saudi exports of petrochemicals, plastics and other products.
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But they also generate plastics that are interwoven into all facets of our lives.
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Made of polyurethane or polyimide plastics and coated with silane molecules, Darling and co.
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In case you didn't already know, The Plastics were the pinnacle of 2000s beauty.
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Mexican freight trains carry cargo-like cars and plastics northward to the United States.
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Plastics are eight times more likely to cause disease for more structurally complex corals.
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These are textiles, plastics or metal that will reflect light back to its source.
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"The best of all is to avoid the plastics we don't need," he said.
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Adidas famously runs a campaign to recycle ocean plastics into a line of sneakers.
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"We all now know the damage plastics are causing to our oceans," they said.
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A year later, Charter NEX under Pamplona acquired a smaller peer, Optimum Plastics Inc.
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Immelt also shook up GE's portfolio, shedding plastics, NBCUniversal and most of GE Capital.
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Bonds between the chemical chains in these plastics can make them pack together tightly.
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Below are 25 home goods that are replacements for plastics you might otherwise buy.
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The truck maintains a purity of purpose inside, with thick controls and tough plastics.
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Take bisphenol A (BPA) a chemical commonly used in plastics, like our water bottles.
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India still has a long way to curb the issue of single-use plastics.
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Levy, who previously worked in the plastics industry, joined as its CEO in 2016.
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But don't start pulling out your Plastics quite yet: The idea is still unlicensed.
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In other words, the plastics crisis needs its own Paris climate accord—and soon.
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Exactly what happens to these plastics once they're in the environment is largely unknown.
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Let's root for the home team as they cut down on single-use plastics.
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Most disposable diapers contain petroleum-based plastics and take hundreds of years to decompose.
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One data survey estimates that 80% of ocean plastics come from land-based sources.
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That estimate probably includes related industries like plastics, chemicals, transportation, trucking and gas stations.
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Metallic plastics are used to brighten up the mostly-black interior, which I liked.
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The European Union (EU) moved closer to a ban on single-use plastics Wednesday.
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Environmentalists hope that will open the door to more consciousness about plastics in general.
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Polymers from recycled plastics can help make the asphalt much stronger and longer lasting.
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The transport subindex was down 1.5 percent and the plastics subindex dropped 2.5 percent.
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It is harder to find a substitute for the oil in petrochemicals and plastics.
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The RPC deal is not Apollo's first foray into the plastics and packaging industry.
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It smells bad, too: of the off-gassing of plastics, garbage, and body odor.
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Existing plastics must be modified for compatibility with Carbon's light- and oxygen-based process.
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In the interim, he said, the company may use the plastics for bottle caps.
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Since their invention roughly 100 years ago, plastics have come to dominate our world.
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China also plans to slap tariffs on U.S. oil, plastics, chemicals and medical equipment.
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Bisphenol A is used to stiffen plastics that some studies suggest pose health risks.
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The plastics industry relies on petrochemicals that now no longer need to be imported.
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Hundreds of chemicals are mixed into plastics to achieve certain textures or other characteristics.
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Often, plastics are mixtures of polymers — big, long-chained molecules — and small-molecule additives.
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Some of the problematic midcentury plastics used in furniture were formulated for military use.
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For related Times coverage, see "The Immense, Eternal Footprint Humanity Leaves on Earth: Plastics."
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Also known as PET, it's one of the most common plastics in the world.
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Ideonella sakaiensis has given us an assist in our endeavor to make plastics rot.
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We've had good discussions with the U.S. There's interest in doing something on plastics.
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But Gangjin's 1,000-year-old pottery-making industry died with the advent of plastics.
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Single-use plastics made up roughly 25 percent of the material the researchers found.
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She remembers being presented with a form containing a pledge not to use plastics.
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The Plastek Group helps support a program at Penn State Behrend for plastics engineering.
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But there was another important step left in rethinking the world of durable plastics.
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If you aren't going to use plastics, what are you going to use instead?
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But what about the plastics we use every day and neglect to think about?
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After giving her children away, Ms. Kwon worked in a plastics factory in Seoul.
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Parts of Hawaii have already banned some plastics Fighting plastic isn't new to Hawaii.
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Budget plastics are placed below the center console where they're seldom seen or touched.
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The Vancouver-based company EcoSafe manufacturers compostable film products intended to replace conventional plastics.
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The goal is to make plastics that can be recycled over and over again.
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Still, the introduction of disposable plastics in postwar science and medicine wasn't necessarily simple.
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"With some plastics, we can explore new materials to replace them sustainably," she said.
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Lego is also working with WWF to help support demand for sustainably-sourced plastics.
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"Single-use plastics are overrunning our oceans and bays and neighborhoods," Lierman told CNN.
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The research did not indicate that plastics were accumulating and remaining in the body.
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Here, the seemingly pristine-looking beaches are, in fact, littered with tons of plastics.
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From plastics to concrete, CO2 is a basic industrial building block — a valuable commodity.
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Synthetic plastics have made many aspect of modern life cheaper, safer and more convenient.
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It also offered to exclude manufacturing assets of Solvay's intermediate and engineering plastics business.
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Then a plastics store on the ground floor of a nearby building caught fire.
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BPA is used in plastics for consumer product packaging and resin for can linings.
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Li went on to start his own plastics company, Cheung Kong Industries, in 20063.
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Discarded plastics litter the Earth, and a frightening amount end up in our oceans.
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The European Union recycles only a quarter of the 25-26 million tonnes of plastics waste it produces per year and about half of that was sent to China, which uses recycled plastics to make products ranging from office furniture to cable coatings.
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People nearby in the community of St. James Parish, Louisiana — in a predominantly African American district already known as Cancer Alley because of the toxins spewed by local petrochemical plants — are fighting the plastics plant proposed by the Taiwanese company Formosa Plastics.
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Eriksen describes, too, the rise of plastics and plastic pollution, the chemistry that makes these materials so persistent and pernicious, and the lengths that the industry has gone to in order to to dodge responsibility for safely disposing of the plastics it creates.
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Most LEGOs — the famous blocks — use ABS plastics, which are hard, durable, and oil-based.
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Combined with other breakthroughs, plastics that conduct electricity well could make for some wonderful gadgets.
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He says he can even create gasoline, depending on what types of plastics he melts.
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From China he is hoping to have his revolutionary bottle manufactured in a plastics factory.
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But they do have the power to make a massive dent in the plastics problem.
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Dell's pilot program is on pace to use 16,000 pounds of ocean plastics in 2017.
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Phthalates are a group of chemicals used to help make plastics more flexible and durable.
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But it featured important differences, including an exposed active area that links well with plastics.
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The hotel will also be required to complete an audit of their single-use plastics.
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The country finally started to crack down in 2018 and banned imports of most plastics.
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And the United Nations specifically referenced marine plastics in its sustainable development goals for 2030.
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Still, it was elegant and sustainable, with no single-use plastics for Malin + Goetz products.
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Many edible plastics are billed as "tasteless," which doesn't mean that all of them are.
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Scientists just found the first evidence that even deep-ocean creatures are consuming these plastics.
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Past attempts to use living organisms to get rid of plastics have not gone well.
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Another option is cranking up plastic recycling so that about half of plastics are reused.
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There's also a category of plastics that's cheaper to make from scratch than to recycle.
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"Even with optical sorting, there's whole categories [of plastics] that have no market," Bourque said.
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Sometimes, despite a recycling facility's best efforts, a plastics stream becomes contaminated, which impairs sellability.
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Researchers have already found high concentrations of plastics embedded in sea floors around the world.
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"A lot of rubbish like plastics, paper bags ... are thrown outside the city," said Abdullah.
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The ubiquity of plastics has led some researchers to dub this era the Plastic Age.
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The 373D's build uses a variety of plastics, including a plastic volume wheel and headband.
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On January 1st China banned the import of 24 categories of waste, including household plastics.
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Most plastics don't really biodegrade, and can hang around for hundreds or thousands of years.
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If they're worn and no longer usable, you can recycle them with regular household plastics.
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Ton for ton, humans use more concrete today than steel, wood, plastics, and aluminum combined.
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The Plastics' chemistry already rivals that of the original cast, and it's such a relief.
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The plastics industry also has a critical role, and leaders recognize the imperative to reform.
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Consumer-goods giants such as Unilever and Procter & Gamble vow to use more recycled plastics.
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The pact also requires greater use of U.S. and Mexican steel, aluminum, glass and plastics.
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For a long time, China has been a dumping ground for the world's problematic plastics.
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Therein lies the betrayal: Slate Cady Heron-d me and joined the plastics of Hollywood.
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VICE Impact: What unique challenges do microplastics present, that distinguish them from traditional, larger plastics?
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Back in 2013, most Android phones were garishly ugly and made of cheap-feeling plastics.
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It's not as easy to shape them as it is to shape plastics, for example.
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Companies from Coca-Cola to Volvo Cars are planning ways to limit use of plastics.
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It was a collection filled with textures — sheepskins, furs, feathers, silks, plastics — and colors aplenty.
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Less than 10 per cent of discarded plastics are recycled—the rest head to landfills.
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Plus, the more we use plastics in our fabrics, the more microplastic pollution is created.
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The tariffs will affect goods such as electronic parts, plastics, chemicals, batteries, and railway cars.
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Nuclear reactors, boilers, machinery, instruments, pharmaceutical and chemical products, vehicles, aircraft, spacecraft, plastics and more.
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We must demand that our government ban single-use plastics and better protect our oceans.
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Major chemical and plastics companies are forming an alliance to fight plastic ocean waste, MLine.
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The art piece was created to raise awareness about the dangers of single-use plastics.
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By reducing use and production of plastics we will make a dent in the problem.
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The tiny plastics are also swimming in the seas and disrupting the way fish eat.
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Micro-plastics are in our seafood and drinking water long after the straws are discarded.
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In fish nurseries off the coast of Hawaii, plastics outnumber baby fish seven to one.
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Landlines, old-fashioned alarm clocks, and single-use plastics will be replaced by modern inventions.
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Phthalates are useful to manufacturers as they make plastics and vinyl softer and more flexible.
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"We found micro plastics inside mussels, which is something we like to eat," Helgesen added.
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The plastics industry is facing tighter regulation in Europe and elsewhere due to environmental concerns.
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These NGLs are used to make a wide range of products and chemicals, including plastics.
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A ban on disposable plastics in New Delhi, for instance, has had only limited impact.
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By age 15, Ka-Shing had left school and was working in a plastics factory.
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ASDI's scrapyard in Lomé is piled high with computer screens, motherboards, and newly pulped plastics.
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The transport subindex and the plastics subindex were up 1.6 percent and 0.5 percent respectively.
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Therefore, the world is in dire need of innovative human-centered ways of recycling plastics.
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While these are crucial, we can also turn to innovative human-centered plastics recycling interventions.
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Streamline Plastics, the building's former owner and tenant, is moving to Pittsfield and Springfield, Mass.
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But individuals can play a part, too, by reducing their own use of disposable plastics.
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The simple questionnaire misses some of the ways we use plastics in our daily lives.
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Plastics, an industry publication, estimates that 90 percent of toys on the market are plastic.
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Zachary Crockett / Vox The researchers categorized all plastics they found into four major size classes.
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Mukesh ultimately got the petroleum and plastics business and Anil got telecommunications and financial services.
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These disposables, known as single-use plastics, are cheap, relatively strong and hygienic to use.
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When China was buying cardboard and plastics, recycling made money for the city some years.
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Well here's a potential long-term solution for all of us: plastics that actually decompose.
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In Burton, just next door to Flint, budget realities have made plastics the realistic choice.
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Most single-use plastics end up in landfills or are burned in huge toxic fires.
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Ocean Cleanup says it's discovered a complicating factor here in the age of the plastics.
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Compost could divert not only single-use plastics associated with food, but also food waste.
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When (renewably powered) electricity is applied to the reactor, it can produce fuel or plastics.
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BILL CARTEAUX, WASHINGTON The writer is president and chief executive of the Plastics Industry Association.
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It employs about 210 workers to manufacture organic peroxides, used in the manufacture of plastics.
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A typical turf field uses a large amount of virgin plastics and re-ground rubber.
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The tail and fins are made of textured plastics and organza in shades of orange.
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The Sierra Club tracked some 290 pieces of state legislation related to plastics last year.
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The surrounding Rust Belt is also home to many of the country's plastics manufacturing factories.
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Lawmakers are also drafting a bill aimed at outlawing the production of plastics in Nigeria.
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Lawmakers are also drafting a bill aimed at outlawing the production of plastics in Nigeria.
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Spirit companies have joined the fight, stating that there's no place for plastics in cocktails.
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Bionic is a company behind a strong fabric that's been developed using recycled marine plastics.
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Every surface was luxuriously appointed, with creamy leather and metal-effect plastics covering most touchpoints.
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The majority of the 97 million items collected around the world were single-use plastics.
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The company says that American consumers may still use the plastics that are produced overseas.
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Jarvis uses almost no plastics in its boards, which drastically cuts down on nonbiodegradable waste.
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The groom's father is the owner of two plastics manufacturers, Axiom Industries in Durham, Ore.
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Modi has called for an end to the consumption of single-use plastics by 2022.
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"I named that 'The Last Plastics Show,'" recalls the artist of the earlier CalArts exhibition.
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It is made from processing petroleum and is used to make synthetic rubber and plastics.
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Most food-grade plastics, in contrast, are "downcycled," their quality degrading each time they're rehashed.
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Clariant will divest the remaining Plastics & Coatings business by 2020, it said in a statement.
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North Korea's biggest imports included textiles, machinery and raw materials including minerals, metals and plastics.
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He said the country enjoyed about a $40 million trade surplus by exporting recycled plastics.
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New research says a total ban on plastics could double energy consumption, BBC News reports.
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Buttons are all high-quality, glossy plastics without the utilitarian focus of the Land Cruiser.
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Switches typically weren't the nicest quality plastics, and the entertainment system was a bit dimwitted.
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But they also generate the building blocks of plastics that are interwoven into our lives.
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"This is a fact Formosa Plastics learned 17 months ago," Lavigne said on the call.
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And definitive human studies of health effects from plastics exposure are hard to come by.
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The company is phasing out leather furniture, single-use plastics and is going carbon neutral.
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But places around the world are moving to ban some forms of single-use plastics.
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The program is focused on plastics, but the company is looking to expand the model.
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Plastics can be found in the stomachs of whales, fish and many other marine animals.
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For a long time, the development of plastics was perceived as a big success story.
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On the small islands and archipelagos they visited, experts collected samples of plastics for analysis.
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Initially the plan was just to divert the plastics to different places like Southeast Asia.
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In other words, let's not focus on recycling, let's just focus on not using plastics.
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The environment ministry has recently set targets for the recycling of paper, plastics and glass.
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In the U.S., some states have begun to ban certain types of single-use plastics.
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In Canada, the nixing of single-use plastics is expected to have economic impacts, too.
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The amendment taking away local authority on the issue of plastics appeared redundant, in any event, because Colorado had approved a law in 1993 preventing municipalities from regulating the use of plastics, said Harlin Savage, communications director for Eco-Cycle, a zero-waste advocacy group.
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To make a truly meaningful impact on the plastics pollution problem, it is up to all of us — consumers, brands, the recycling industry, as well as the local, state and federal governments — to work together to increase the amount of plastics recycled in this country.
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In 2019 a whale in the Philippines had 40 kilograms of plastics in stomach; in 2018 an eight-month old Seal pup in Scotland also had plastic in its stomach; and more than 2023 micro-plastics found in all 102 turtles assessed in a research.
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Although electric cars are on the rise, so is demand for petrochemicals used to create plastics.
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Ultimately, production of plastics has to be significantly curtailed to effectively resolve the plastic pollution crisis.
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Politicians everywhere are responding to voters' demands by banning straws, stirrers and other single-use plastics.
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Around a quarter of the revenues of Germany's BASF or DowDuPont of America come from plastics.
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This is because alternatives materials emit much more carbon dioxide during their manufacture than plastics do.
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Bisphenol A, or BPA, is a chemical commonly used to create polycarbonate plastics and epoxy resins.
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The parka from the collection is made entirely from recycled plastics, including 55 used water bottles.
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Hong Kong does not have a pelleting machine—meaning, those plastics are moving elsewhere through Asia.
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The transport subindex and plastics subindex were both down 0.8 percent and nearly 2 percent, respectively.
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They also claim the final materials are more robust and flexible than traditional injection moulded plastics.
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Much of the problem is due to single-use plastics, such as food packaging and cutlery.
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Mean Girls Thanks to Tina Fey (and the Plastics), "Jingle Bell Rock" was never the same.
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The best place to catch plastics, they say, is upstream, before it even enters the sea.
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These plastics can cause great harm to marine life and have the potential to devastate ecosystems.
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Who is going to fund a startup company to get rid of plastics in the ocean?
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Plastics industry employs lakhs (hundreds of thousands) & the real problem is how we dispose & recycle waste.
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So, why not then take the renewable hydrocarbon as raw material for plastics and for chemicals?
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From macro to micro, plastics are slowly permeating our bodies, our oceans and even our air.
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In a first, the company modeled oil demand under a worldwide ban on single-use plastics.
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Nestle has been criticized by environmental group Greenpeace for not eliminating single-use plastics quickly enough.
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Officials said the fire was in a unit that contains polypropylene material, a component of plastics.
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As previously reported on Motherboard, there are actually a number of surprising hurdles to plastics recycling.
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We Are the Oceans' interactive game, launched this week, lets you "collect" pounds of virtual plastics.
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Nor were the insects merely chewing up the plastics and then passing them in their faeces.
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There's a moment in Mean Girls when The Plastics take turns picking apart their own bodies.
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Now, the actress joins Grande as one of the plastics, even recreating their iconic Christmas dance.
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The majority of electronic waste is metal-dominated: iron, copper, aluminum, and then plastics, of course.
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The pollution of the ocean with plastics is the latest oceanic issue to attract her attention.
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Plastics absorb toxins—like PCBs, pesticides, and motor oil—like a sponge, poisoning the food chain.
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DE) set out on Tuesday to reduce its stake in plastics and chemicals subsidiary Covestro (22017COV.
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That is painful for companies that make low-margin commoditised goods such as paper or plastics.
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Geberit is a big buyer of copper, polystyrene and plastics it uses in its piping systems.
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The plant will mostly make hard plastics for everything from pill bottles to coolers to kayaks.
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But the advent of plastics has created structures capable of surviving the open ocean for decades.
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Everlane announced an initiative last year to remove all virgin plastics from its manufacturing by 2021.
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Masterbatches include colours, additives and special effect concentrates for plastics used for products such as packaging.
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They are easily absorbed by fat cells, moving from plastics into food, and food into people.
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They determined that the auto and plastics industries were the main drivers of growth -- not fracking.
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The company said that it's to sell its plastics business for $585 million, according to Reuters.
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We're choosing to highlight this issue because these are nonrecoverable plastics and there are natural alternatives.
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China has threatened to retaliate against $5.4 billion in exports of U.S.-made chemicals and plastics.
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I THINK, THE WHOLE TOPIC OF WHAT THEY CALL SINGLE-USE PLASTICS IS ON EVERYONE'S RADAR.
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Over time, it evolved into producing everything from dynamite to plastics and invented nylon and Teflon.
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To have an honest conversation about the ocean plastics crisis, one must accept two hard truths.
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And the humble cardboard box, which plastics-abhorring consumers are pushing over plastic, is imperfect too.
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Key products to be hit by the duties include semiconductors, chemicals, plastics, motorbikes and electric scooters.
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In 1950, he started his own plastics business and did almost everything, including the accounting, himself.
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China in 2016 took in 7.3 million tonnes of waste plastics - 56 percent of world imports.
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Mean Girls will now be available to stream, adding a little Plastics charm to your life.
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Yes, but: Plastic straws aren't the biggest culprit in plastics pollution, they're just easy to remove.
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Always a Mean Girl at heart, she even managed to nod to her Plastics alter-ego.
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There are five major ones, and each has a substantial patch of micro and macro-plastics.
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BASF competes with DowDuPont in areas such as pesticides, engineering plastics, nutrition, insulation foams and petrochemicals.
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He had to leave school before the age of 16 to work in a plastics factory.
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More specifically, these funds would be used to support policies focused on eliminating single-use plastics.
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Anita-Maria Quillen, chief executive of Diversified Engineering and Plastics, outside her home in Jackson, Mich.
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When plastics get warm, they degrade faster because the molecules have more energy to move around.
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From there, scientists can formulate an enzyme combination that can break plastics apart quickly and cheaply.
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The end goal is for algae fuel to replace oil in everything from cars to plastics.
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"Well, we have tremendous plastics coming over from Asia, from China, and various others," Trump said.
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From afar, the map seems to show that plastics in the ocean are giant floating landfills.
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Do you have tips on avoiding plastic packaging or plastics in other parts of your life?
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The polymer that the company makes is called PHA, and it works similarly to most plastics.
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Ikea has committed to removing all single-use plastics from its products and stores by 2020.
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"These are important and troubling pieces to the puzzle, and all plastics pose dangers to turtles."
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The waste was shipped to the Philippines in 2013 and 2014 and mislabeled as recyclable plastics.
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Welch joined GE in 21987 as a chemical engineer in its plastics division in Pittsfield, Massachusetts.
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Less than 10 percent of all plastics that have been thrown away have actually been recycled.
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One is to take plastics like water bottles, wash them, shred them, melt and reconstitute them.
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Celebrities, including Jeff Goldblum, back California bill to cut single-use plastics, the Associated Press reports.
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The move away from single-use plastics will make products like reusable silicone bags more popular.
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He later worked on developing the company's plastics business, and he became company president in 1980.
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Plastics, aviation demand soar Still, that is not enough to offset the need for oil elsewhere.
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Phthalates are a group of chemicals used to make plastics more flexible and harder to break.
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All single-use plastics, like trash bags and grocery bags, contribute to the ongoing climate crisis.
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The ocean plastics crisis is a crisis, and like the ocean, it impacts all of us.
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Ethylene and polyethylene pellets are then shipped back north to supply plants that make plastics products.
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On the plastics front, Sainsbury's said it would halve its use of plastic packaging by 2025.
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Therefore, the ultimate goal is to make plastics that can be recycled over and over again.
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BPA, or bisphenol-A, is a chemical that mimics estrogen and a component of polycarbonate plastics.
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"I try not to use plastics, and at home I am maniacal in recycling," she said.
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Cardboard is easily recycled but bubble wrap and select plastics often end up in the trash.
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You bring your own bags to the supermarket, you have a reusable straw, you recycle plastics.
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"We see plastics in our neighborhoods, in our riverbeds and streams -- it is ubiquitous," Lierman said.
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CO2 can also be transformed by catalysts into polymers, the precursors for plastics, adhesives, and pharmaceuticals.
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It can serve as feedstock for food, biofuels, plastics, and even carbon fiber (see No. 5).
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Plastics-- as the world gets bigger, has the death of the oil company been greatly exaggerated?
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Plastics researchers agree that dealing with such pollution will require going as far upstream as possible.
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The new company will also include DuPont's materials business to form a plastics and packaging powerhouse.
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Making plastics from petroleum also increases carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere, contributing to climate change.
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Employers in Plastics Valley try, increasingly, to poach workers from other companies or devise creative workarounds.
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Employers in Plastics Valley try, increasingly, to poach workers from other companies or devise creative workarounds.
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Today, it is hard to think of products that don't contain or aren't wrapped in plastics.
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"We cannot rid the oceans of the plastics they contain," said foundation director Anne-Cécile Turner.
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India just announced it would not take plastics, so the quest for markets is still ongoing.
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Even though writing about on the business of microchips or plastics might be just as relevant.
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Seattle had banned the use non-recyclable, non-compostable plastics in the foodservice industry since 2008.
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Growing volumes of end-of-use plastics are generating costs and destroying value to the industry.
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Only 000 percent of Canadian plastics get recycled — about the same as the percentage recycled worldwide.
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"We recognize that single-use plastics are a concern for many of our customers, Team Members and suppliers, and we're proud of these packaging changes, which will eliminate an estimated 800,000 pounds of plastics annually," Whole Foods' chief merchandising officer AC Gallo said in a statement.
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Developing the technology to effectively recycle black plastics and reforming the e-waste recycling stream are large long term goals, but in the meantime the researchers advocate only recycling black plastics into products that have minimal contact with humans, such as road signs or garbage bins.
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Under the proposal, approved on a vote of 22025 to 3613 on Wednesday, 2361 single-use plastics that most often end up in the ocean will be prohibited in the European Union, as well as oxo-degradable plastics, such as bags or fast-food container packaging.
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"This report demonstrates the importance of triggering a revolution in the plastics industrial ecosystem and is a first step to showing how to transform the way plastics move through our economy," said Dominic Waughray, a member of the World Economic Forum's executive committee, in a press release.
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Exactly which plastics will be banned and how the ban will be enforced hasn't yet been decided.
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Rather than storing the CO2, CCU uses it to make other substances such as plastics or biofuel.
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The deepest marine organisms known to humans are contaminated by plastics, according to a study published Wednesday.
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And splitting off its plastics and coatings business is an old idea that may still create value.
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These products can release "primary microplastics", which are plastics that directly enter the environment as "small particulates".
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"I just want to do this to bring awareness that plastics are killing our planet," he says.
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They put the creature in a holding tank and watched to see what happened to the plastics.
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Domestic U.S. crude prices would automatically rise, pushing up the cost of anything from gasoline to plastics.
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"The drone frame is made of flexible plastics, has prop guards, and is very small," she said.
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Now, we'll be waiting for the Instagram that swaps Cher from Clueless with the Mean Girls Plastics.
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Durable packaging fell out of fashion decades ago, when cheap, disposable plastics replaced glass bottles and containers.
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And it isn't the only potential fix for marine plastics, as Laurel Hamers reports for Science News.
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I went to auto body school, I used plastics, I did a feather room which I'm reimagining.
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Through a combination of pastel, graphite, and melted plastics, Irwin warps portraiture into uncanny pieces of trash.
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We frequently read about pollution, the problems with plastics, mass deforestation, and the melting of ice shelves.
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The lighter plastics can incorporate heavier particles in their polymer resins to ensure they don't float either.
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But to limit carbon emissions from plastics, it must be done in concert with other big efforts.
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Britain, Scotland, Chile, India, and Taiwan have also announced plans to phase out all single-use plastics.
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"We were always skeptics of collecting this kind of material, the mixed non-bottled plastics," Bourque said.
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And so KBR burned Styrofoam, plastics, tires, pesticide containers, batteries, medical waste, and even human body parts.
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"The focus is on collecting and disposing of plastics instead of reducing the quantity produced," he said.
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But it is better for the environment to set fire to low-grade plastics in efficient incinerators.
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The photo has also underscored concerns about the amount of plastics and debris in the world's oceans.
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The legislation comes amid a growing push to phase out single-use plastics like straws and bags.
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In 1950 he was among the first in the British colony to get into the plastics business.
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Currently, the world relies on the hydrocarbon molecules found in fossil fuels to create materials like plastics.
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The intrigue: Speaking of petrochemicals, the report has some interesting data and projections about single-use plastics.
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The effects of plastics on busier bits of the ocean, such as reefs, have been little studied.
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Researchers have identified 22 species of animal whose members either ingested plastics or got entangled in it.
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In the past two years Ms Wright has noticed an uptick in grants for plastics-related research.
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Waste plastics imports also plunged last month, down 94.4 percent to 10,000 tonnes from December's 180,000 tonnes.
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They also claim a small percentage of plastics in the ocean are coming from the United States.
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It's a stark reminder of how our addiction to single-use plastics is leaching into our ecosystems.
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Just think of all of the alloys, plastics, rubbers, silicon substrates, liquid crystals, and hacked DNA molecules.
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By also incorporating insecticides into plastics, he hopes to extend protection to hats, handbags and household items.
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For manufactured goods, the new Chinese tariffs include cars and car parts, plastics, aerospace products and chemicals.
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According to the United Nations, more than 60 countries have bans or taxes on single-use plastics.
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That, however, assumes in part that China makes a success out of its new biodegreable plastics industry.
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Those plastics have become standard in the footwear industry because they're cheap, lightweight, and easy to use.
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In mid-2015 he started carving out Clariant's plastics and coatings business into a separately managed entity.
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The firms' flagship products are chlorosodics, which are used to make soaps, pesticides and plastics, and polyether.
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If the roof leaks, go to the bush, cut some grass, find small trees, plastics, sacks - whatever.
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A typical cargo list includes machinery, appliances, clothes, electronics, toys, plastics, and decorative items like Christmas lights.
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Today, tents and pegs made out of biodegradable materials such as cardboard and biodegradable plastics are available.
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Instead, the focus should be on the manufacturers, the ones that make and use plastics, he said.
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The technology has evolved to work with different types of substances: plastics, metals and now biological materials.
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That would make the plastics trapped in the Pacific Garbage Patch a proverbial drop in the bucket.
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It will also introduce a small levy on bottled water and single-use plastics to discourage use.
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And you can't avoid the plastics by staying at home: They've also been detected in indoor air.
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Nor would the quantities of combustible material — plastics, wood, petroleum, vegetation — be as vast as first thought.
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The Gulf Coast is home to 90 percent of the nation's capacity to turn out basic plastics.
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The solution is to make packaging reusable, said Graham Forbes, global project leader for Greenpeace's plastics campaign.
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It serves customers in the auto, paints, plastics, electronics, energy, and telecommunications sectors in over 130 countries.
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The hydrocarbons can be used either as an additive in gasoline or as a component in plastics.
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Their rolls are made of 100 percent natural cellulose, so they don't have harsh chemicals or plastics.
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In 1980, Greg C. Garland joined Phillips 66 as a project engineer at the Plastics Technical Center.
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The growth in single-use consumer plastics has fueled a surge in plastic pollution around the world.
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But plastics will continue to play a huge role in packaging -- they have so many unique benefits.
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Cady traded in her drab flannels for high heels and miniskirts to blend in with the Plastics.
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The leader of the Plastics looks chic in a coordinating pink pajama set complete with her initial.
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According to Maley's chart work, if history holds, the semi stocks could soon follow the plastics lower.
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The shutdown of Chevron's Pasadena Plastics Complex caused some excess releases, mostly of carbon monoxide and isobutane.
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About 40 percent of the goods on the list are plastics, petrochemicals, petroleum products and specialty chemicals.
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Last month, India's Environment Minister announced that the country would "eliminate all single use plastics" by 2022.
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Polylactic acid (PLA) plastic is an increasingly common, environmentally friendly, alternative to conventional petrochemical-based mass plastics.
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It begins to read as an insouciant signature, while also adding another element of '60s sculpture (plastics).
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Plastics can be dangerous, especially when they leach chemicals out through scratches or cracks in a container.
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BPA is a synthetic estrogen that has been used in many plastics and resins since the 1960s.
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The main driver of the petrochemical industry's growing climate footprint, according to the report, will be plastics.
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But in museums, where objects are meant to last forever, plastics are failing the test of time.
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In June, a dead whale found in Thailand had nearly 18 pounds of plastics in its stomach.
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There are three basic types of fake nails, all of them from the acrylic family of plastics.
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They will be scattered around the museum with information about the environment and the impact of plastics.
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They also can mean higher prices for plastics — and for natural gas, which can affect electricity rates.
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" A more fundamental problem, said Dr. Miller, is that, like all plastics, "glitter is a petroleum product.
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Gangjin's last major industry, potterymaking, died when plastics began replacing crockery in Korean kitchens in the 1970s.
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In short, scientists are in search of polymers or plastics with a built-in self-destruct mechanism.
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The January U.S.-China agreement does not remove Chinese or U.S. tariffs on chemicals, plastics or oil.
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Over nine months of study, he found that there was no change to the plastics' chemical structure.
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Eliminating plastics and bycatch, making data more useful, putting sonar sensors on robotic boats, all very interesting.
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Activists therefore are calling for it to ditch plastics entirely rather than just commit to recycling them.
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The cooperation of the big online retail companies will be crucial, said Mr. Tang, the plastics campaigner.
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Nestlé's total plastics packaging usage in 2018 was 1.7 million metric tons, according to the company's website.
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This is one of the most expensive plastics you have, and this is entirely recyclable, infinitely recyclable.
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"The intention is really good," said Graham Forbes, a global project leader focused on plastics at Greenpeace.
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Now Hawaiian lawmakers are trying to get rid of single-use plastics in eateries across the state.
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Her sister, Betul, married into one of Turkey's wealthiest families, which owns the Turkish plastics company, Plastmore.
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Those include reducing pollution from plastics and other waste by half, and restoring freshwater and marine ecosystems.
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Up to 25 percent of plastics in new Volvo cars by 2025 will be from recycled materials.
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Last year, the company released its first batch of pieces made using more sustainable bio-based plastics.
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JPM, MS. January 30: PolyOne (US, plastics) – $972.83m FO. Fixed size (100% prim) versus $35.72 at launch.
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Learn more about Rothy's sustainability practices here, and find more brands we like that recycle plastics here.
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Plastics have been found everywhere from Arctic ice sheets to remote islands to the deepest ocean trenches.
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Clorox Disinfecting Wipes are safe to use on granite, acrylic, plastics, vinyl, and even sealed hardwood surfaces.
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And another one called Project Aware, which is a program trying to clean the oceans of plastics.
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Key products that will be hit by the duties include semiconductors, chemicals, plastics, motorbikes and electric scooters.
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She juxtaposes materials such as plastics and gaffer tape with high-end, luxurious fabrics in her designs.
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Some areas of science -- not least DNA research -- have grown up in an era of disposable plastics.
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Bags made with plant fiber like sisal can help the slum battle its plastics problem, he said.
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She said banning foam products is the first step to curbing people's reliance on single-use plastics.
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But phasing out plastic wrapping by implementing a plastics-free aisle could prove more challenging, said Cohen.
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Single-use plastics from hotel rooms in NYC alone send over 89 tons of waste to landfills.
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Braskem said the contract was mutually beneficial, arguing that it helps cut Mexico's reliance on foreign plastics.
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Much of my work has been dedicated to finding sustainable ways to make and break down plastics.
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But these new alternatives have to compete with synthetic plastics that have established infrastructures and optimized processes.
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So, as pediatricians have suggested, you might want to rethink the plastics your food is stored in.
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And industry uses lots of fossil fuels as feedstocks for chemical processes that make things like plastics.
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In 1999, Mr. Chen joined them, beginning work at a Spanish plastics manufacturer run by a cousin.
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The pact also requires greater use of North American steel, aluminum, glass and plastics than the original.
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These include reducing consumption of single-use plastics, trying to cut emissions and increasing the recycling rate.
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The World Economic Forum reports that there are 150 million metric tons of plastics in the ocean.
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"Given that single-use disposable plastics are at the heart of the plastic pollution problem, if you do these simple things, you could potentially reduce your plastic consumption by 80 percent or maybe even more," said Mr. Sinha, who wrote a guide to avoiding plastics with Ms. Plamondon.
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Whether cars, plastics or many drugs—without the components of crude, much of modern life would not exist.
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In 2009, they founded eco-friendly company Ecovative, which produces an alternative to plastics and Styrofoam using mushrooms.
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"Most of the 'toxins' that concern people include pesticides, residue from plastics, or from air pollution," Tsippora says.
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The material -- ranging from plastics to other trash -- takes "a very long time" to break down, NOAA said.
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The interior still features the same reliance on flat black plastics that I bemoaned in the F-Pace.
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The presence of plastics seemed especially to aggravate some common coral afflictions, such as skeletal eroding band disease.
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It's the worthless plastic — the single-use plastics — that compose this mounting mess and piles up on beaches.
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But Lavers doesn't want to promote hopelessness in the face of an industrial barrage of single-use plastics.
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Speaking before the vote, O'Farrell also said 90 percent of the plastics used by consumers are nonrecyclable items.
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"They contribute to the micro-plastics problem, getting into the food chain and ultimately into us," she said.
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This has kept plastics stuck in the negative feedback loop of low demand, low investment and low supply.
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Many plastics scientists and activists credit that video with raising people's consciousness of the environmental impact of plastic.
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Long term, The Ocean Cleanup wants to launch 203 of these floating plastic tubes to trap marine plastics.
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Petrochemicals are used to make plastics, as well as fertilizers, clothes and a wide array of other products.
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Beijing, for its part, zeroed in on an array of American products, including plastics, a fast-growing export.
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Sabic IP was the former plastics business of General Electric, which SABIC bought in 2007 for $11.6 billion.
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Few organisms have enzymes that can break such bridges, which is why these plastics are not normally biodegradable.
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They all must be deployed — which is why we should stop using (and creating demand for) unnecessary plastics.
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Even Kim Kardashian is not OK with the disposable plastics epidemic, sharing an alarming video with her followers.
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What effect those plastics are having on the rest of the deep-sea world is, for now, unknown.
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So developing solutions for responsible end-of-life management of plastics is a major challenge for the industry.
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PolyOne (US, plastics) – $228m FO. 13.3m shares (100% prim) at $33.75 versus $34.35 last sale and $35.72 launch.
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New Delhi (CNN)Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's bold plan to tackle single-use plastics has been scrapped.
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For the vast majority of people, single-use plastics are still an inescapable aspect of their shopping reality.
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Sea creatures commonly eat off the sea floor, so plastics could still enter the food web after sinking.
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In May Stora Enso, a Finnish forestry-products company, launched a wood-derived alternative to oil-based plastics.
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Packaging maker DS Smith Plc this week agreed to sell its plastics business to a private equity company.
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But the Church of England has one slightly unconventional vice it wants its parishioners to give up: plastics.
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But instead of using plastics, resins, and metals, bioprinters use special biomaterials that closely approximate functional, living tissue.
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Look for stain- and odor-resistant options so your plastics don't look sad after a few uses. 14.
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January 2015 – A fire at a plastics factory on the outskirts Dhaka killed 13 people and injured dozens.
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If you think about it, plastics should be considered one of the defining technologies of the 43th century.
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The containers were labeled as plastics for recycling, but inspectors in Philippines found the garbage was not recyclable.
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It already makes shoes using ocean plastics and plans to use only recycled polyester whenever possible by 2024.
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Another is biology, and with that in mind researchers have been hunting for creatures that can digest plastics.
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The big picture: Plastics demand is projected to only increase — and the footprint of plastic pollution with it.
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What's happening: There are calls to ban single-use plastics and force companies to rely less on petrochemicals.
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They have their work cut out for them: Globally, less than 20% of plastics were recycled in 2015.
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Greenpeace's Lin welcomed the proposal but urged consumer goods companies to reduce the single-use plastics they produce.
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On top of that, the packaging materials that come with delivery boxes are exacerbating the global plastics crisis.
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It is easy to ship, store and turn into myriad refined products, from petrol to plastics to pharmaceuticals.
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"Our number one priority is tackling marine litter," says Karl H. Foerster, head of industry association Plastics Europe.
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The European Parliament recently approved a ban on single-use plastics, including plastic cutlery, straws, and drink-stirrers.
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Both companies are trying to figure out ways to reduce their use of virgin plastics and increase recycling.
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They told reporters the building where the fire began had housed a plastics warehouse and contained flammable material.
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Plastics which find their way into these countries' coastal waters eventually enter into the global oceanic conveyor belt.
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And without the infrastructure to absorb all the waste that China is rejecting, the plastics are piling up.
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These greenwashed wipes contain synthetic fibers including plastics which then do terrible things to our waterways and wildlife.
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"The reduction of single-use plastics is at the heart of our fight against waste," a spokeswoman said.
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What aspect of the plastic is most relevant—is it size, shape or chemical makeup of these plastics?
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If you thought that the Plastics holiday dance was great, wait until you see who's in the show.
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Downstream operators might recalibrate refineries to focus on petrochemical products like plastics, while pushing further into natural gas.
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The worst oil rout in a generation has cut production costs for plastics that require oil-derived components.
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The report also found that the entire plastics industry will consume 20% of total oil production by then.
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