#plastic industry

Here’s the link to the report from Minderoo entitled, “Plastic Waste Makers Index.” Portion of an infographic from the report:

Excerpt from this story from the New York Times:

The throwaway plastic that holds our takeout food and wraps our dry cleaning is widely seen as one of the world’s biggest environmental hazards. It pollutes as it is produced, through the extraction of fossil fuels, and, no sooner than it is used, it pollutes again. It is thrown away and can end up clogging waterways and choking animals or sometimes is burned, sending hazardous fumes into the air.

A detailed report published Tuesday sheds new light on who makes all this single-use plastic, 130 million tons a year at last count, and who makes money from it. A surprisingly small group of giant manufacturers and investors are at the heart of the global industry.

The report comes from researchers led by Minderoo, a nonprofit organization based in Australia that advocates for cleaner oceans, along with academics at the University of Oxford and the Stockholm Environment Institute. It was reviewed by KPMG, the accounting firm.

So who makes all this plastic?

This report peels back another layer by showing who produces polymers, the petrochemicals that are the building blocks of single-use plastic.

According to the report, half of the world’s single-use plastic is made by 20 big companies. Two U.S. companies, Exxon Mobil and Dow, lead the pack, followed by Sinopec, a Chinese-owned petrochemicals giant, and Indorama Ventures, which is based in Bangkok.

Single-use plastic has been a very good business, and that’s projected to continue. In the next five years alone, production capacity is forecast to grow by 30 percent.

Who invests in its manufacture?

Some of the most familiar names in finance, including companies that control mutual funds and retirement savings accounts, including Vanguard and BlackRock, according to the analysis. And the production is financed by the world’s biggest banks, including Barclays and JPMorgan Chase.

This #WorkerWednesday, we’re making a visit to the Camphor Plant of E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company’s Chambers Works facility.

The site, located on the Delaware River in Deepwater Point, New Jersey, was established by the DuPont Company in 1892 for the purpose of manufacturing gunpowder. Between then and when it closed in 2018, the site was used to develop, manufacture, and store a wide variety of chemical products, including Kevlar, nylon, Freon, leaded gasoline, and uranium processing for the Manhattan Project.

Camphor, an aromatic compound produced from the wood of camphor producing plants, or synthetically derived from turpentine, is a versatile product used in mothballs, embalming fluids, perfumes, medicinal products and, in the early years of the plastics industry, as a plasticizer used in the manufacturing of celluloid and plastic lacquers.

This ca. 1945 photograph is part of Hagley Library’s collection of DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341). The  DuPont Company created the Product Information section within the Public Relations department in 1952. Its function was to produce news releases with photographs about DuPont and its products for indirect publicity and advertising purposes.

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Plastic injection molding is very versatile approach of producing parts and items. It is one of the favored techniques for making parts because it has numerous advantages over other approaches of plastic molding. Not just is plastic injection molding easier and also more reputable, it is additionally incredibly efficient. You should believe about utilizing this approach to manufacture parts. Below are 5 major benefits of using injection molding for manufacturing plastic components and also components.

1. Thorough Functions and also Complex Geometry

The injection molds undergo extremely high pressure. As a result the plastic within the molds is pressed harder versus the mold contrasted to any other molding procedure. Because of this excessively high pressure, it is feasible to add a big amount of information into the layout of the component.

Due to high pressure throughout the molding process, facility and also detailed shapes can quickly be developed and made which or else would certainly have been too complicated and pricey to produce.

2. High Effectiveness

As soon as the injection molds have actually been designed to the consumer's specs as well as the presses pre-programmed, the actual molding process is extremely fast compared to other approaches of molding. Plastic injection molding process barely takes times and this permits even more parts to be manufactured from a solitary mold.

3. Enhanced Toughness

In plastic injection molding, it is possible to make use of fillers in the injection molds. These filler decrease the density of the plastic while it being molded as well as likewise help in adding higher toughness to the component after it has been formed. In fields where parts need to be solid and sturdy, plastic injection has an alternative that other molding processes do not provide.

4. Ability to Utilize Multiple Plastic Kind Concurrently

One of the significant advantages of using plastic injection molding for producing components is the capacity to utilize different sorts of plastic simultaneously. This can be made with the assistance of co-injection molding, which removes the fret about utilizing a details type of plastic.

5. Automation to Conserve Manufacturing Expenses

Plastic injection molding is an automatic process. A bulk of the injection molding process is done by devices as well as robotics which a single operator can manage as well as manage.

Furthermore, automation enables making accurate and exact injection molds. Computer assisted style (CAD) and also computer helped production (WEBCAM) permit close tolerances during the making of the molds.

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This is not good news, unless you are in an investor in the plastics industry and all of the industries that are down- and up-stream from the plastic products. According to InsideClimate News:

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