American Plastic News Today

In the last half century, there have been many drastic changes to the surface of our planet, but one of the most astonishing is the ubiquity and abundance of plastic.

Richmond Hill, Ontario--(Newsfile Corp. - March 15, 2022) - Notox Technologies Corp. (OTC: NTOX) ("Notox" or the "Company") is pleased to announce that the Company has entered into an amendment with the

The First Nations taught us the fun of chomping on sweetened tree resin. So what did we do? We replaced it with a synthetic gum made of butyl rubber, paraffin, petroleum wax, polyethylene, polyisobutylene, and polyvinyl acetate. Now, in the first ten years of this millennium, we have manufactured more plastic than we made in the entire twentieth century.

Let's talk about movies and plastics. No, not The Graduate yet again, but instead the seasonal classic It's a Wonderful Life.

Director Frank Capra, before he got into movies, was a chemical engineering graduate from the California Institute of Technology, although he was frustrated by his inability to turn that degree into a career before he found his way into film. There's a theory that his own studies led to inserting the line about plastics, although I haven't been able to find confirmation of that.

The extraordinary story of how plastic became a major player before its fall from favour.

May 24, 2021 PORTSMOUTH, New Hampshire – Cyclyx International, a consortium-based feedstock management company with a mission to help increase the recycling rate of post-use plastic from 10% to 90%, announced today that North American Plastics, a family of leading brands in plastics distribution, has become a member of the Cyclyx consortium. As a member of the consortium, North American Plastics joins an impressive group of companies that are leading the way in building a more sustainable f...