2 days ago · Introduced in the 1960s, by the 1970s, plastic had captured a sizable majority of the grocery bag market on the continent. In Japan and Australia, as well. A ...

5 days ago · Celluloid, the first synthetic plastic material, developed in the 1860s and 1870s from a homogeneous colloidal dispersion of nitrocellulose and camphor.

2 days ago · History of Plastic Plastic Recycling. By Empower. Plastic Production Volumes. Plastics are widely used in modern society, from packaging and consumer products ...

6 days ago · Goodyear got into a patent dispute, actually many of them, in 1844 with Thomas Hancock who also patented rubber stabilization on November 28, 1843. See, William ...

2 days ago · Plastic production is booming. In 1950 it was 2 million tons per year; by 2000 it was 200 million; in 2019, 460 million and growing still. Single-use items ...

7 days ago · Plastics developed post-World War II due to initial misunderstanding, limited acceptance, and eventual integration into popular culture, as reflected in music, ...

22 hours ago · Directed by Ben Addelman, with Ziya Tong as co-director and interviewer, "Plastic People" offers a fascinating history of plastic, showing us how the stuff ...

5 days ago · At a slightly higher molecular weight, PET is made into a high-strength plastic that can be shaped by all the common methods employed with other thermoplastics.

6 days ago · Big Oil, Plastics Industry Led 'Campaign of Deception' to Push Recycling Fraud. "The oil industry's lies are at the heart of the two most catastrophic pollution ...

2 days ago · It wasn't until the 1950s that plastic straws began to appear en masse, rapidly replacing their paper cousins because they were more durable and inexpensive. In ...