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
How the USPS Stays Eco-Friendly
Submitted on Mar 15, 2010
How your postman is marching towards a greener future.
Category: Eco Solutions
The Benefits of Plastic Greenhouses
Submitted on Mar 15, 2010
Why plastic can be the better option for ihorticulture.
Category: Buildings & Homes
Plastics Make it Possible SM Partners to Support Future Paralympians
Submitted on Mar 15, 2010
Learn more about two-time Paralympian John Register and how plastics have advanced prostheses.
Category: Athletes with Disabilities • Medical & Safety
[Video Feature] Plastics Live an Exciting Second Life with Big Agnes
Submitted on Mar 15, 2010
PMIP caught the Outdoor Retailer Expo in Salt Lake City, Utah this January and got to see first-hand the ways plastic and plastic-based materials are helping winter gear retailers to be more innovative. Big Agnes makes an entire line of gear made entirely of recycled plastic! Plastics Live an Exciting Second Life with Big Agnes from [...]
Category: Eco Solutions
[Video Feature] Kuhl Clothing Tells Us How To Use Plastic-Based Materials to Dress for Winter Weather
Submitted on Mar 15, 2010
Everyone knows its important to stay warm and dry when the temperature cools, but there’s a lot of gear to choose from. Jim from Kuhl Clothing talks us through the best plastic-based fabrics for layering, from base to shell, in this quick video. Kuhl Clothing Tells Us How To Use Plastic-Based Materials to Dress for [...]
Category: Fashion & Design • Winter Games
[Video Feature] Need a Buzz? Kuhl Uses Plastic-Based Fabrics to Put Coffee in Clothes
Submitted on Mar 15, 2010
A good cup of coffee goes a long way to wake you up, but did you know recycled coffee grounds can be added to polyester to give your outdoor gear an antimicrobial finish? Thanks to the unique absorbitive properties of plastic-based fabrics, Kuhl is helping you keep your clothes smelling cleaner longer! Need a Buzz? [...]
Category: Fashion & Design • Winter Games
Faux Fur Fashions Made Possible by Plastic
Submitted on Mar 15, 2010
Runways in New York, Paris, Milan and London this winter shared one look in common—faux fur. And faux fur is back this spring, with brighter hues and wilder patterns and textures. Modern faux furs trace their origins to the mid 1950s, with the introduction of acrylic fibers as replacements for alpaca hair. These plastic fibers were [...]
Category: Fashion & Design
Cool Roofs
Submitted on Mar 15, 2010
We all know that wearing white or “cooler” colors during sunny summer days can help keep us cool because light colors reflect the sun’s rays rather than absorbing them like dark colors. Scientists today are applying this phenomenon to new technologies in building and construction, using white and light-colored roofing materials to [...]
Category: Buildings & Homes
Getting There on Plastic Bridges and Roads
Submitted on Mar 15, 2010
Who knew that recycled plastics from automobile bumpers and milk jugs could make a bridge strong enough to support a 70-ton tank? Constructed from more than one million recycled milk jugs (170,000 pounds in total) and scrap plastic from automotive bumpers, the 17 foot, fiberglass-reinforced bridge was installed in the autumn of 2008 near Fort Bragg, [...]
Category: Cars & Transportation
Plastic Pack Helps Deliver Vaccines Around the World
Submitted on Mar 15, 2010
A $10 billion grant announced in early 2010 by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation kicked off a high profile “decade of vaccines,” focused on developing and delivering new vaccines to prevent deadly diseases around the world. While vaccine breakthroughs receive significant attention, less visible but equally vital is the need to deliver those [...]
Category: Smart Packaging
