Archive for the ‘Recycling’ Category
Dart Container hits the big 5-0
Monday, May 10th, 2010
Dart Container Corp. is typically a fairly private company -- that tends to be the case when you've got a CEO with a reputation like Kenneth B. Dart. But the company is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year, so it...
Plastiki plug for Seretex
Friday, May 7th, 2010
The Plastiki isn't just raising awareness of marine debris, it's also helping to publicize, and commercialize, a new composite sheet made out of recycled PET. The Plastiki -- the boat made out of PET soda bottles that David de Rothschild...
Plastic start-ups featured
Monday, May 3rd, 2010
The Wall Street Journal featured three start-up companies with plastics connections over the weekend: e-book company Plastic Logic, recycler TerraCycle Inc., and plastic wine closure maker Nomacorc LLC. The trifecta features the companies in different sections -- there's no connection...
Plastics seek the spotlight on Earth Day
Thursday, April 22nd, 2010
Today is the 40th anniversary of Earth Day, and it seems like plastics are in the spotlight more than ever this year. Not necessarily in a bad way, either. In addition to all the stories and columns in the media...
NYC wants more plastics recycling
Monday, April 19th, 2010
New York newspapers like the idea of boosting the city's plastics recycling efforts. PlasticsNews.com reported last week on the proposal, dubbed Local Law 19, ("NYC may accept all rigid plastics for recycling"). The proposal would be the first significant expansion...
Stephen Joseph, plastic bag advocate and environmentalist
Friday, April 16th, 2010
Patty Fisher of the San Jose Mercury News has discovered that Stephen Joseph, counsel for the Save the Plastic Bag Coalition and SaveThePlasticBag.com, is a quotable character. Fisher writes in her column, "The environmentalist who wants to save the plastic...
Do biodegradable plastics really work?
Wednesday, April 7th, 2010
The sceptics at Mother Jones magazine took a look at plastics packaging, recycling and biodegradbility as part of a special report on the environment titled "Waste Not Want Not." The report isn't brand new, but I just noticed it today...
Haiti seeks help recycling PET
Friday, March 26th, 2010
The 7.0-magnitude earthquake that devastated Haiti in January, killing 200,000 people, has left the survivors with a less serious headache, but one that the plastics industry might be able to solve: how to get rid of thousands, if not millions,...
Video: The Story of Bottled Water
Tuesday, March 23rd, 2010
Annie Leonard, a sustainability proponent known for The Story of Stuff project, has a new video that blasts the bottled water industry, called "The Story of Bottled Water." The 8-minute video, posted below, tackles a few plastics-related issues. It criticizes...
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...