Plastics-related shares have been hit in the past year by falling prices and weak demand.
Companies that have nothing to do with chemical weapons--producers of fertilizers, pharmaceuticals and plastics--will bear a heavy burden.
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Then it was the turn of the lorry to collect plastics - three.
While the rest of the Lumia range have stuck to plastics -- typically glossy polycarbonate -- the Lumia 925 is Nokia's first Windows Phone to be packed into an aluminum frame.
There are a lot of materials in our environment, especially things - chemicals, that leach out of plastics - that we now know, become part of our food, and many of them have hormone effects.
The problem is that while Boeing intends to make 50% of its 787 Dreamliner out of hardened plastics -- and therefore lighter and more fuel efficient -- Airbus has been planning to to build the A350 with aluminum alloys.
Recent modelling studies show that the flux to remote areas of contaminants associated with micro-plastics is small compared with that from oceanic and especially long-distance atmospheric transport processes.
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Dow Chemical, operating in the dull but brutal commodity-plastics market, now splits out and prices separately the add-on services that it once provided in a lump along with its products.
The world's largest maker of glass bottles, Owens-Illinois, branched into plastics in the mid-1990s, fueling top-line growth.
It uses the US firm's optical frontplane but adds on its own backplane made out of non-rigid plastics, and then sells the part to device-makers.
Nano-composite plastics are going to be a major component of nano-enhanced food packaging, and Nanocor has more than 40 issued patents in its intellectual property portfolio, primarily regarding the creation of nanoclays and nanomer surface treatments.
However, it's this convenience, coupled with a voracious appetite for one-time-use plastics that is now hurtling back toward us as an ever-growing and devastating set of plastic fingerprints on our natural world.
It might entail getting governments to expand recycling programs and accommodate bio-plastics in the marketplace.
Knowledge of the distribution and fate of micro-plastics is only beginning to emerge.
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For example, food vendors in the main Olympic Park will use compostable packaging made mainly from starch and cellulose-based bio-plastics.
The recycling process involved several steps including the removal of oil and wastewater from the collected booms, preparing the plastics for die-mold production and ultimately creating the components.
"It's showing that micro-plastics are quite widespread in the environment, not just in the water columns and the beaches, but actually in the creatures that live in those environments, " he said.
One of the greatest uncertainties is whether this leads to the bioaccumulation of the contaminant load (absorbed and plastic additives), and hence whether micro-plastics represent an additional and significant vector for transferring pollutants.
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Work will involve bio-refining, and developing different processes to turn crops such as rye grass, miscanthus (a perennial grass), oats and artichokes into products ranging from fuels to cosmetics, pharmaceuticals, textiles, bio-plastics, food and health products.
New technologies developed by a UK-based company Symphony Environmental Technologies are, they say, making plastics far more eco-friendly.
Dow contributes the technical know-how for producing plastics and chemicals, while its partners provide low-cost feedstocks and access to new markets.
Nanocor , a subsidiary of Illinois-based AMCOL International , is the leading producer of nano-composite plastics.
To survive, Mr Huang maintained his day job with the Manhattan office of a Taipei-based plastics importer.
By tackling the harder problem of recycling ocean plastic, Method hopes to raise awareness about the greater need to use post-consumer plastics.
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Dr Schmidt says that various firms are now testing his feather-based plastics for use in such things as biodegradable nappies and home insulation.
Mr Museveni seems dazzled by Chinese promises to help build an oil refinery and to help turn oil into Ugandan-produced plastics and fertiliser.
One of Mr. Talbot's favorites is a fine, stiff netlike fabric used by the automobile industry as a support material between upholstery and metal or impact-resistant plastics.
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Over the years, he's been working on a technique called "plastination" that replaces the water and fat inside a body's tissues with polymers -- sticky, hard-drying plastics.
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Moreover, he estimates that the coating will enable manufacturers to do away with the big plastic caps currently used, saving about 25, 000 tons of petroleum-based plastics each year.
If not, is it something that is a factor in the environment of the post-industrial era, where out-gassing plastics and other factors are part of our daily lives?
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