Plastic packaging is ubiquitous in our world, with its waste winding up in landfills and polluting oceans, where it can take centuries to degrade. To ease this environmental burden, industry has ...

Time is not just the enemy of mankind as new research shows older PET preforms are more difficult to process into new containers. The work by Plastic Technologies Inc. of Holland, Ohio, looks at ...

This research project will study the relationship between equilibrium moisture content (EMC) and the physical stability of plastics and plastic composite artifacts found in museums. Objects such as ...