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Are You Ready for Plastics Prime Time?
SPE
SPE is looking for speakers for ANTEC® 2023, taking place March 27-30 at the Hilton Denver City Center in Denver, CO. ANTEC® is the perfect event to share your research or your company’s latest developments. And we're changing things up a bit for 2023! Speakers are no longer required to submit a technical paper. You can submit a paper or a presentation. The choice is yours! This will allow for greater flexibility on how you would like to present your work. Call for Speakers deadline is December 2, 2022, so don’t hesitate – submit today!
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Steel mill gases transformed into bioplastic
Phys.org
Plastic waste from food deliveries is rapidly polluting the environment. An alternative that has emerged is bioplastic, which is also called biodegradable plastic. Bioplastic that uses eco-friendly raw materials emits less pollutants during the production process and has natural decomposition properties. Recently, a Korea-Spain joint research team recreated bioplastic from waste byproducts from gas fermentation from steel mills.
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Scientists combine chemistry, biology to recycle mixed plastics
Plastics Recycling Update
Researchers have developed a way to turn mixed polymer plastics into a single chemical product, which could potentially eliminate the need to sort plastic by type prior to recycling.
“Combining chemical and biological processes is a promising new strategy for the valorization of mixed plastic waste,” an NREL press release stated.
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Resin price report: Prime PE, PP resin prices slip some more
Plastics Today
While the lower part of the polyethylene pricing spectrum again held firm the week of Oct. 11, the top end of the polyethylene market continued to trim, reports the PlasticsExchange in its Market Update. Prime prices sliced off a couple of cents, as processors shopped and suppliers competed for orders, compressing margins. Polypropylene prices remained under considerable pressure, and lopped off another $0.03/lb.
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Wacker Chemical Corporation
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Extreme Coatings
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Light-activated 'smart plastic' has its soft spots
New Atlas
Plastics can be hard, plastics can be soft, but can plastics be both at the same time? Scientists at the University of Texas at Austin have been exploring this question and produced a first-of-a-kind material that is pliable in some sections and stiff in others, which they see one day making its way into flexible electronics and robots.
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Transparent wood could soon replace plastics
Phys.org
Transparent wood promises to be an environmentally friendly substitute for glass or plastic used for making car windshields, see-through packaging and biomedical devices, according to a study.
Published in the journal Science of The Total Environment, the study said transparent wood reduced ecological impacts on the environment because of its renewable and biodegradable properties.
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Machine learning to streamline plastic production and lessen its environmental impact
AZO Materials
‘The Age of Plastic’ was an album by the 1980s British new wave group, The Buggles – a point to which we shall return!
More pertinently, it is a term often used to describe the remarkable rise of this class of material since the development of the first synthetic plastic, Bakelite, in 1907. From a materials science perspective, the proliferation and reach of new plastics-related technologies in a comparatively short time has been a spectacular achievement.
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What if plastic packaging was made from wood?
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Two major societal issues — wildfire and petroleum-based plastics — are currently affecting life on our planet and significantly adding to greenhouse gas emissions. The USDA Forest Service’s Forest Products Laboratory is invested in one solution for both by developing recyclable, next-generation packaging materials from wood.
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Promoted by Polyfil
 Polyfil, a Kafrit Group company, together with Kafrit IL and N3Cure (an Israeli based Start Up) provides solutions for UV curing systems and CROSSITOL® masterbatches. Crosslinking enables the production of recyclable packaging with a single-polymer structure (Mono-material), saving costs and reducing the consumption of fossil-based polymers. As a result, it will have a smaller effect on the environment than most plastic solutions.
CROSSITOL® masterbatches can be used in a wide range of applications including cast and blown film extrusion. Its technology is coupled with N3Cure’s curing system to target specific layers for crosslinking, downgauging, and production costs.
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Sorting PLA from municipal plastic waste is proven easy again
Plastics Today
Just how easy or not is it to sort polylactic acid, a popular bioplastic, from other packaging waste? A new study finds the same results as prior studies.
With the aim of determining the sortability of polylactic acid from municipal mixed plastic waste, TotalEnergies Corbion and Tomra Recycling conducted a sorting test in August 2022.
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