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
Making Art out of Tape and Plexiglass
Submitted on Apr 29, 2010
Mixed media artist Mark Khaisman layers translucent packing tape on Plexiglas panels to create images that have the shadow and depth of large scale paintings.
Category: Fashion & Design
Spring Fashion Is Blooming with Recycled Plastic
Submitted on Apr 23, 2010
The next time you buy a fashionable new T-shirt, you could be helping close the recycling loop. Recycled plastic fibers are now used in all sorts of fashion items, from evening gowns and shoes to accessories such as jewelry and handbags. Hip designers are producing beautiful pieces out of fabrics made from recycled plastic water and [...]
Category: Fashion & Design
Helping Protect You and Your Loved Ones on the Road
Submitted on Apr 22, 2010
From your windshield to your bumpers, plastics provide safety benefits in ways you may not see In the face of an annual average of more than 6 million auto crashes on U.S. roads, it’s good to know that many plastic vehicle components – both seen and unseen – contribute greatly to reducing the potential for injury. Some [...]
Category: Cars & Transportation
Trendy Sequins
Submitted on Apr 22, 2010
Sequins have a long history, running from ancient Egyptian royalty to schmaltzy casino signs. Thanks to plastics, today they’re glistening down the runways of New York and Paris and adding pizzazz to shoes, purses, skirts and more. Before plastics, sequins often were made of coins or small pieces of metal, usually worn by people of wealth [...]
Category: Fashion & Design
What’s Your Recycling Personality?
Submitted on Apr 21, 2010
How much do you know about recycling? Recycling plastic bottles and bags is one thing that everyone can do to help make a difference. Every plastic bottle and bag that you recycle can live a “second life” as another product such as carpeting, tote bags, furniture or even a stylish T-shirt. So is your Recycling Know-how up [...]
Category: Eco Solutions • Fashion & Design
Get Your Family Started Recycling In Time For Earth Day
Submitted on Apr 21, 2010
In recognition of the 40th anniversary of Earth Day, now is a great time for many Americans to renew their commitment to helping protect and preserve the environment. An easy way to do this is to recycle! Recycling is important because it can help save energy, money and land space, create new green jobs, and reduce [...]
Category: Eco Solutions
Celebrate the 40th Anniversary of Earth Day – Buy Recycled!
Submitted on Apr 21, 2010
On April 22nd, Earth Day celebrates an anniversary: It’s been forty years since U.S. Senator Gaylord Nelson (D-Wisconsin) launched the idea as a teach-in designed to inspire awareness of and appreciation for the environment. While it may sound counterintuitive to go shopping to help celebrate the anniversary, the right kind of “retail therapy” [...]
Category: Eco Solutions
Strawberries Thrive under Protective Plastic Blankets
Submitted on Apr 20, 2010
Plastic cover acts as a greenhouse, giving plants a bit of time to grow in the fall and protective covering throughout the winter months.
Category: Smart Packaging
New Thermoplastic Springs have Sprung
Submitted on Apr 20, 2010
Lee Spring, a leading global manufacturer of mechanical springs since 1918, introduces LeeP™ plastic composite springs, which are molded from SABIC Innovative Plastics’ Ultem* resin
Category: Appliances & Gadgets
Plastic Fibers Help to Advance Solar Cell Technology
Submitted on Apr 20, 2010
Inexpensive Fiber-Based PVs Double Regular Cells’ Capacity
Category: Eco Solutions • Future Technologies
