Archive for the ‘Recycling’ Category
New catalysts may encourage recycling
Tuesday, March 9th, 2010
Chemical catalysts rarely make big news, but today's an exception. In a paper published in Macromolecules, a journal of the American Chemical Society, researchers at IBM and Stanford University said they have discovered a new way to make plastics that...
Calif. aquarium raises awareness of marine debris
Monday, March 8th, 2010
The Sea Life Aquarium at the Legoland Resort in Carlsbad, Calif., has a new exhibit aimed at raising children's awareness of plastic marine debris. The project is called "Beach Trash, A Whale of a Problem." First grade classes from a...
One city wants to educate its citizens, not ban plastics
Friday, March 5th, 2010
Here's a radical idea: a sustainability committee in one California city, concerned about litter and marine debris issues, wants to start a "massive public education" program instead of banning products like plastic bags. That's the recommendation of the South Lake...
Living without plastic
Monday, March 1st, 2010
Beth Terry, author of the Fake Plastic Fish blog, is in the news today, with a story and video on KGO-TV, the ABC affiliate in San Francisco. The focus is Terry's effort to minimize the amount of plastic in her...
PET recycling in the World Cup spotlight
Friday, February 26th, 2010
PET recycling is getting a lot of media attention today, thanks to Nike's decision to use recycled polyester to make the soccer uniform shirts for all nine Nike-sponsored teams in the 2010 World Cup. Teams from Brazil, the Netherlands, Portugal,...
Using plastic trash to make art
Thursday, February 25th, 2010
Here's another one of those posts where you have to click through to see the photos. The io9 blog has a photo gallery post today titled "Nothing Is Ever Junk When It Can Be Reembodied." It features the work of...
Plastiki almost ready to go
Thursday, February 4th, 2010
Remember the Plastiki -- the boat made out of old PET bottles that David de Rothschild plans to sail from California to Australia, to raise awareness of marine debris? The Plastics Blog first discovered the project almost two years ago....
House in Argentina made of plastic bottles
Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010
Every once in a while I come across something that's blogworthy just to share the photos. That's the case today in a post from the Treehugger.com sustainability Web site, which posted an item today headlined "Amazing House Made Entirely of...
What happens to those 3-D movie glasses?
Monday, February 1st, 2010
With Avatar breaking box-office records, USA Today's Elizabeth Weise wondered what's happening to all the 3-D glasses worn by moviegoers. According to her calculations, about 75 percent of people who've seen Avatar saw the 3-D version, which works out to...
Processors adapt to sustainability efforts
Monday, January 25th, 2010
The Earth911.com blog posted a story today on the plastics industry's role in increasing the sustainable attributes of consumer products, including packaging. Earth911.com staffer Jennifer Berry called me last week with some general questions about what's new in plastics that...