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Precious Plastic
A 27-year-old created a series of machines to revolutionize how we recycle
via Insider
Dave Hakkens of the Netherlands has designed a mini recycling plant. He posts how-to videos on his YouTube page that explain how to build each machine.
Blueprints and videos are free to the public.
More information here: http://www.thisisinsider.com/precious-plastic-machines-will-change-how-we-recycle-2016-4
NPE2018: THE PLASTICS SHOW SELECTED TO PARTICIPATE IN 2018 INTERNATIONAL BUYER PROGRAM
via TSNN
NPE2018: The Plastics Show has been chosen by the U.S. Department of Commerce to participate in its 2018 International Buyer Program (IBP).
The IBP is a joint government-industry effort under the jurisdiction of the Commerce Department’s International Trade Administration (ITA) that brings thousands of international buyers to the U.S. for B2B matchmaking with U.S. firms exhibiting at major industry trade shows.
Read the full story here: http://www.tsnn.com/news/npe2018-plastics-show-selected-participate-2018-international-buyer-program
Companies focus on business, not NAFTA, at Plastimagen
via Plastics News
Mexico City — The increasingly sharp rhetoric over the future of the North American Free Trade Agreement wasn’t exactly center stage at Plastimagen. Visitors and exhibitors said the focus was definitely on business.
But still, like the hum of the machinery running in the exhibition halls, it was constantly in the background and could not be avoided.
Read the full story here: http://www.plasticsnews.com/article/20171110/NEWS/171119986/companies-focus-on-business-not-nafta-at-plastimagen
PLASTICS Adds Educational Event Targeting Executives to NPE2018
New series of half-day symposia with networking lunches will feature speakers from financial institutions, consumer brands, plastics manufacturing companies and national associations
The Plastics Industry Association (PLASTICS) said The Plastics Leadership Summit will provide industry and end-market senior management an educational outlet as well as a chance to network with peers and speakers at NPE2018.
The summit, for which there is a separate registration fee, will run Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday—May 8-10—from 8:30 am to 1:30 pm. Speakers and presentation are organized by broader themes assigned to each day: Profit (Tuesday), Product (Wednesday) and Production (Thursday).
Read the full story here: https://www.ptonline.com/articles/plastics-adds-educational-event-targeting-executives-to-npe2018
MIT students fortify concrete by adding recycled plastic
via MIT NEWS
Adding bits of irradiated plastic water bottles could cut cement industry’s carbon emissions.
MIT undergraduate students have found that, by exposing plastic flakes to small, harmless doses of gamma radiation, then pulverizing the flakes into a fine powder, they can mix the plastic with cement paste to produce concrete that is up to 20 percent stronger than conventional concrete.
Read the full story here: http://news.mit.edu/2017/fortify-concrete-adding-recycled-plastic-1025
Marine Plastic Pollution
Naturalist Attenborough makes dire warning of plastic pollution in world’s oceans
via CNBC
U.K. naturalist and broadcaster David Attenborough has warned of the dangers of plastic in the oceans after witnessing the damage it causes while filming a new wildlife series.
Attenborough said that during the recording of the BBC’s TV series “Blue Planet II” he saw countless examples of the negative effect of plastics, according to comments in the Guardian newspaper on Sunday.
Read the story here: https://www.cnbc.com/2017/10/16/attenborough-makes-plastic-pollution-warning-for-worlds-oceans.html
Project Loon Approved to Restore Internet to Puerto Rico
via eweek.com
FCC Approves Alphabet’s Project Loon for Hurricane-Devastated Puerto Rico
Read the full story here: http://www.eweek.com/networking/fcc-approves-alphabet-s-project-loon-for-hurricane-devastated-puerto-rico
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