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Video: Material Insights: Nov. 2, 2009
In this week's Plastics News' Material Insights: PP prices take a 10-cent plunge; Eastman's PET plant in South Carolina to close for a portion of the fourth quarter; Plastipure gets a $1.1 million federal grant for materials with no estrogen activity.
Denton's new PET recycling plant in Oregon may be first of many
PORTLAND, ORE. (Nov. 4, 4:35 p.m. ET) -- Dennis Denton sees the new 30-million-pound PET recycling plant that he and two other partners are building in St. Helens, Ore., as the prototype and forerunner of the way plastics will be recycled in the future -- not just the first PET recycling plant in the Pacific Northwest. Long-range, perhaps three years from now, Denton said ORPET plans to form joint ventures and build recycling plants with companies that need recycled PET, such as firms that thermoform clamshell containers.
Plastic debris choking remote seabird population
(Nov. 4, 10:41 a.m. GMT) -- Ocean-bound plastic waste is being ingested for seabirds living in some of the most remote parts of the world. According to research published in the peer-reviewed journal PLoS One, albatross chicks (more) ... Source: PRW
Thursday, November 5, 2009
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