Plastics & Resins Blog

It is a very good iniciative to diplay a well organized media campain to teach peaple that -plastics are the best material invented by men ever-that help to make millions of the nice looking and funtional products and cars -that we know now a days- including for health care and clinics or even for implants to replace human parts.

Since, there are many ignorant citizens and bad intentioned companies -an even politicians- that divulge wrong messages as:

"that plastics in general are cancerigens or dangerous to health", or

In some cases against a particular plastic as happen: with XPS coffe cups recently, PVC products, PET bottles, etc. etc.

But, I dont blame them at all, since we get what we plant grow:

And, this is the result of what some big companies baddly divulged in the past to replace some product for its benefit, ej:

1- as did a giant polymer Co with its PET bottle material- to replace the huge market that PVC bottles had once.

2- as did the giants paper Co. with ist paper Cup,to replace XPE coffe cups

3- as the desprestige campain agaist PVC toys in following site: http://machinedesign.com/ContentItem/72457/MaterialsControversyBrewingOverPVCinToys.aspx

etc.

Congratulations, We really have to do something, I`ll send you facts or ideas to help to succide it. Please follow me a contact e-mail.

JOSE MA JIMENEZ, senior chem eng. M Sc in plastics from UMAass.

ZAPOPAN,JAL, MEXICO.

I think that there is no doubt that we are dealing with an uneducated public... but we are to blame for creating our own mess. Plastics has clearly emerged as being beneficial to many of the biological and environmental issues we face... yet for years we sat on the knowledge and made little if no attempt to showcase the benefits we as an industry provide...reusable material...lower emissions...reduced waste weight...less material required to accomplish desired functio, thus less material waste.

I intend to really attempt to push this issue to the forefront of my own local community, as well as the Michigan public as a whole. One blog on here stated that even with recycling, we will run out of means to produce material. This is true..

But does this mean we should follow the same concept with money.. we'll run out soon enough, so screw saving some back for the grocery list? You decide...