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May 11, 2021 A £20,000 manufacturing supportprize is on offer for designers and companies willing to create a new sustainable product. Subscribe to our daily newsletter! Sign Up InspirON speakers ‘The Hackathon Challenge’ is being backed by Telford-based Protolabs and is one of the main events of the ‘InspirON’ series of best practice talks and virtual seminars currently under way. It will give participants the opportunity to take what they have learned from global experts involved in the talks and use it to create a hand tool with life-cycle analysis (LCA) and sustainability in mind...

Boost resource efficiency By Vannessa Goodship In order to understand how best to recycle plastic it is necessary to know what the material is and how it is likely to behave. Plastics are made up of polymers and additives. The percentage of a polymer in a plastic material can vary from virtually 100% to less than 20%, and depends on the application for which it is intended. In the USA alone, over 18,000 different grades of polymer-based materials are available. For the purposes of discussing recycling, these plastics can be subdivided into two categories: thermoplastics and thermosets. This d...