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.
[VIDEO] Plastics Make it Possible at the FOOD & WINE Classic in Aspen
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
BMW Showcases Innovative Dashboard That Improves Fuel Efficiency
Submitted on Mar 22, 2010
A tailor-made long glass fibre polypropylene (LGF-PP), is behind BMW’s new 20% lighter, single material dashboard for its 7 Series models.
Category: Cars & Transportation
Plastics Make It PossibleSM Teams with Auto Alliance to Highlight Innovation in Cars and Trucks
Submitted on Mar 22, 2010
Plastics Make It PossibleSM, an initiative of the plastic industries of the American Chemistry Council, has teamed with Auto Alliance to showcase how plastics and composite materials help make cars and trucks lighter and more fuel efficient, yielding significant benefits for the environment. The Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers (Auto Alliance) la [...]
Category: Cars & Transportation
Spring Cleaning and Gardening Tips
Submitted on Mar 22, 2010
Eco Herb Garden Put a Lid On It Milk It for All It’s Worth Message in a Bottle Make Use of Old Tooth Brushes Be a Tidy Gardner Recycle Recycle, Reuse, Reduce Spring is on its way, and with it comes the desire to de-clutter and re-organize. This spring, be green and save some green by focusing on reusing and recycling ever [...]
Category: Smart Packaging
[Video Feature] John Register Shares His Story
Submitted on Mar 18, 2010
Plastics helped paralympian John Register become a world class athlete, see the video below to learn more: John Register Shares His Story About How Plastics Helped Him Become a World Class Athlete from Plastics Make it Possible on Vimeo.
Category: Athletes with Disabilities • Medical & Safety
[Video Feature] Prosthetic Designer Steve Byers Explains How Plastics Have Played a Role in the Evolution of Prostheses
Submitted on Mar 18, 2010
Prosthetic Designer Steve Byers Explains How Plastics Have Played a Role in the Evolution of Prostheses from Plastics Make it Possible on Vimeo.
Category: Athletes with Disabilities • Events • Medical & Safety
[Video Feature] Paralympian John Register Asks for Support
Submitted on Mar 18, 2010
Paralympian John Register joined the Americans with Disabilities Network and Plastics Make it PossibleSM to issue this call to action. Help inspire physically disabled children to become future world class athletes, see the video below:
Category: Athletes with Disabilities • Events • Medical & Safety
Plastics That Can “Remember” Their Shape
Submitted on Mar 15, 2010
Smart materials don’t have brains, but they do have memories. These plastics and textiles can “remember” their shapes, metamorphosing under changing physical conditions and then reverting to their earlier forms.
Category: Future Technologies
Value of Plastics Recognized in India
Submitted on Mar 15, 2010
Many around the world, especially in India, realize that plastic’s role in construction is crucial to the future development of the country.
Category: Buildings & Homes
Researchers Developing Plastics for the Compost Pile
Submitted on Mar 15, 2010
A new sugar-based polymer could make food packaging and other disposable plastic items suitable for being composted at home.
Category: Eco Solutions • Smart Packaging
Porsche Reveals New Concept Car
Submitted on Mar 15, 2010
The hybrid electric car stays light thanks to the help of carbon-fiber plastics.
Category: Cars & Transportation
