Today in Plastics
The airbags in your car and the socks on your feet have something in common with your toothbrush, bicycle helmet and home insulation: plastics. Today’s plastic materials inspire innovations that are helping to create tougher, cleaner, and safer homes, cars, airplanes, and hospitals.
Today in Plastics aggregates hot topics, events and innovations across a variety of sectors including: Cars & Transportation, Smart Packaging, Fashion & Design, Appliances & Gadgets, Buildings & Homes, Medical & Safety, Eco Solutions and Future Technologies. Come back often to learn about the many ways plastics are helping to create a future of endless possibilities.
Plastics Make the Cut
Read MorePlastics Move Outdoors
This year a quarter of Americans plan to make outdoor home improvements to get ready for springtime and warmer weather. So as [...]
Category: Buildings & Homes
Guest Post: John Register, Hurdling Adversity
Sports have always been my passion. My athletic career started early when I began swimming competitively at the YMCA in Oak Par [...]
Category: Athletes with Disabilities • Medical & Safety
[Video Feature] WesFeld Dress Designs Get Paneling and Structure from Poly Organza and Plastic Mesh
WesFeld partners Wesley Nault and Daniel Feld (formerly of Project Runway) show us the plastic mesh and poly organza that helps [...]
Category: Fashion & Design
Get Kids Moving with Plastic Safety Gear
Submitted on Apr 9, 2010
From First Lady Michelle Obama’s Let’s Move! campaign to the CDC’s Verb initiative, kids are being urged to get off the couch and onto the sports field. Public health officials encourage parents to teach their children early the value of exercise and how it can help lead to a healthier life. But before parents rush their [...]
Category: Medical & Safety
Recycled Plastic Bike Works to Reduce Impact of Your Commute
Submitted on Apr 6, 2010
It may be strange looking, but this new bike claims to reduce your environmental impact while getting you to work.
Category: Eco Solutions
Plastic: Covering Your Food
Submitted on Apr 6, 2010
New reusable food covers rely on plastic to keep food fresh.
Category: Smart Packaging
Lightweighting Electronics?
Submitted on Apr 6, 2010
Using a thin layer of heat-resistant silicon dioxide on plastic, researchers have found a way to cut the weight of certain electronics in half.
Category: Appliances & Gadgets
How Prefab Homes May be the Way of the Future
Submitted on Apr 6, 2010
One company in the U.K. shows why these houses have so much potential.
Category: Buildings & Homes
A “Second Life” Mentality Can Build Homes
Submitted on Apr 6, 2010
Using some 8,000 PET recycled bottles, a Honduran company creates the “casa ecológica” or ecological house, as a means of providing sustainable construction methods and employment in Honduras.
Category: Buildings & Homes
Recycle… Your Carpeting?
Submitted on Mar 30, 2010
Plastics can live again…underfoot Any idea what happens to all that plastic we recycle? Sure, plastic bags can be made into new bags and plastic bottles into new bottles. But plastics also can be recycled into long-lasting products. For example, your feet may be resting on former plastic water or soda bottles. Most carpeting is made from [...]
Category: Buildings & Homes • Eco Solutions
[Video Feature] Behind the Scenes with WesFeld at Fashion Week
Submitted on Mar 23, 2010
Behind the Scenes with WesFeld from Plastics Make it Possible on Vimeo.
Category: Fashion & Design • GenArt New Garde
Working with Grocers to Boost Recycling
Submitted on Mar 22, 2010
The Association of Postconsumer Plastic Recyclers hopes to boost the recycling of rigid plastics beyond PET and high density polyethylene bottles by working with groceries to make it easier and more accessible.
Category: Eco Solutions
