while plastic, feel durable and well-made. I have thick hair that falls below my shoulders. It also takes forever to dry. Using my previous hair dryer, a Conair 1875, I could easily spend half an ...

Science hasn’t yet determined the rate at which larger plastics break down into microplastics. They are also still researching how quickly microplastics become “nanoplastics” – even ...

Could our unshakeable addiction to plastics be broken? That’s certainly the hope of activists. The U.S. — birthplace of the modern polymers industry, and the biggest producer of its key feedst ...

The study shows that even if no more plastics were produced, the pollution problem would continue to worsen. According to the researchers, the degradation of existing plastic waste means that ...

Microplastic pollution is expected to keep growing and could more than double by 2040, even if no new plastics are made, a major review of the last two decades of research has warned. As existing ...

18, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- According to a new industry research report published by Fact.MR, a market research and competitive intelligence provider, the global Centrifugal Industrial Dryer ...

Plasteurope.com is a business information platform for the European plastics industry. It is part of KI Kunststoff Information and PIE Plastics Information Europe, one of the leading content providers ...

Typhoon Carina and tropical storm Enteng are recent examples of this problem. As heavy rains overwhelm drainage systems, the massive volume of improperly disposed plastics, food wrappers, and other ...

“I’m not really surprised,” Stapleton added. “I really do think that plastics are going to be in every place in the body that we look. This is just more evidence.” When it comes to ...

While the outcome of the plastics treaty talks is unclear, and the entire process may seem opaque to many in the industry, the agreement is likely to have long-term impacts in many areas ...

Also, a federal judge in Washington has denied attempts by two plastics industry trade associations to put a roadblock in front of a California state probe into whether the industry misled the ...

Hoffer Plastics in South Elgin, Illinois, about 40 miles west of Chicago, is the much rarer high volume-high mix producer. On one day in August, injection molding machines were rapidly cranking out ...