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For increasing the stream of recyclable plastics from the public, more creative ideas will be needed – below are just a few recent trends and examples:   Landfill-blocking: Especially where landfill space is running low... find more

The writer Mark Twain liked to point out that statistics usually are not far from being “damned lies.” But for measuring recycling rates and proposing recycling goals, statistics are seen as useful tools -- though perhaps... find more

The term chemurgy hasn’t really been used much since last century, when American scientist George Washington Carver and lesser-known researchers developed hundreds of industrial products based on agricultural crops. But the concept... find more

One objection to bio-based plastics is that they’re often made from edible agricultural products – not a good long-term plan when we have a growing population of over seven billion people to feed. But this objection hasn’t... find more

A blog posting here a few weeks ago covered three general “themes” of the debate on the use of vinyl/PVC. After the posting, commentators emphasized that a key issue with flexible vinyl compounds has to do with the phthalate-based... find more

Lately there’s been a number of companies announcing that they’ve installed solar-power arrays to supplement their high energy needs. And why not? Their plant roofs and properties often cover several football fields-worth... find more