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New plastics — including composites, nanoplastics and bio-plastics — are helping to create a future of endless possibilities. Plastics give us tougher, safer, cleaner, more comfortable homes, cars and airplanes in addition to sports gear, and hospitals that protect and enhance our lives.Imagine walls that respond to temperature and sound, floors that self-clean and chairs that adjust to the size and weight of the person sitting on them. We’re not there yet, but advancements in plastics are getting us closer. Plastics are allowing us to do so many things today that we couldn’t do before; and they will allow us to do things in the future that we haven’t imagined yet.

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When Less is More: Plastic Nanotechnology

Submitted on Oct 14, 2009

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Talk on Recycled Plastic

Submitted on Aug 5, 2010

Verizon Wireless is now selling the Samsung Intensity II online. A phone made partly from recycled plastic.

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Category: Appliances & GadgetsFuture Technologies

“Plastic Plane” Shows at the Farnborough Airshow

Submitted on Aug 5, 2010

Boeing’s revolutionary new “plastic plane,” the 787 Dreamliner, which is the first plane to be made from 50% carbon fibre composite material shows at the Farnborough Airshow.

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Category: Cars & TransportationFuture Technologies

Plastic Helps Create an Outdoor Oasis

Submitted on Aug 5, 2010

Showcasing how top tier and interior designers to the stars create outdoor living spaces that are pet friendly, human friendly and even plastic!

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Category: Buildings & HomesEco SolutionsFuture Technologies

Professional Sports Teams Becoming More Environmentally Conscious

Submitted on Aug 5, 2010

National sports team are taking steps in being environmentally conscious by adding more recycling bins, encouraging recycling and even LEED lighting

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Category: Eco SolutionsFuture Technologies

Plastic Disks Help Advance Cancer Vaccine

Submitted on Jul 20, 2010

Researchers have developed an implantable vaccine that, using plastic disks, eliminated melanoma tumors in mice.

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Category: Future TechnologiesMedical & Safety

Plastic Fabrics Could Make Your Shirt Sing

Submitted on Jul 20, 2010

New acoustic fibers rely on plastics and can ’sing’ and hear sounds.

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Obama Makes Visit to Future Battery Plant

Submitted on Jul 15, 2010

The plant will create battery packs that will use plastics in hoses, ducts and other components, along with the plastics used within lithium-ion cells, in connectors, cables and other parts.

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Category: Cars & TransportationFuture Technologies

Researchers Improve Plastic Solar Cells

Submitted on Jul 8, 2010

“Industry-changing” plastic solar cells see longer operating life.

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Transforming Waste Plastic Into an Alternative Fuel

Submitted on Jun 7, 2010

Student researchers at Northeastern University have designed an apparatus to convert plastic waste into clean energy without releasing harmful emissions.

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Category: Future Technologies

Transforming Waste Plastic Into an Alternative Fuel

Submitted on May 25, 2010

Student researchers at Northeastern University have designed an apparatus to convert plastic waste into clean energy without releasing harmful emissions.

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Category: Future Technologies