Ep 27A: Plastic Bags – Drifting through the wind, wanting to start again

Plastic bags are everywhere - whether we want them to be or not. And while many states and countries are trying to enforce plastic bag & single use plastic bans, there's no denying that these materials are all over the place. But where do plastic bags come from? How are they made? Why is there …

Second century of plastics – Dr. Anthony J Ryan

The very properties of plastics that make them so useful, they are durable and cheap, also means that they are almost worthless post-use, expensive to recycle and easy to discard, so a circular economy for petrochemical plastics will be really hard to implement. Life cycle assessment can identify the tipping point, as the energy system …