Chemicals, Plastics

Plastic Products Contain Toxic Chemicals - Consumer Reports

Most of the plastics that consumers encounter in daily life—including plastic wrap, bath mats, yogurt containers, and coffee cup lids—contain potentially toxic chemicals, according to a new ...

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plastic | Composition, Uses, Types, & Facts | Britannica

Plastic, polymeric material that has the capability of being molded or shaped. This property of plasticity, often found in combination with other special properties such as low density, low electrical conductivity, transparency, and toughness, allows plastics to be made into a great variety of products.

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The Toxic Chemicals in Plastic

It's in water bottles, sippy cups, and the seams and linings of cans containing food: Bisphenol A (BPA) is the chemical's name, and manufacturers use it to harden plastic. Unfortunately, it may pose a health hazard.

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How to Avoid Toxic Chemicals in Plastics - MADE SAFE

The most famous toxic chemical in plastics is Bisphenol-A, or BPA, which is a hormone disruptor linked to a whole host of health problems. The good news is that the FDA banned the use of BPA in baby bottles and children’s sippy cups in 2012.

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Exposure to Chemicals in Plastic - Breastcancer.org

BPA is a weak synthetic estrogen found in many rigid plastic products, food and formula can linings, dental sealants, and on the shiny side of paper cashier receipts (to stabilize the ink). Its estrogen-like activity makes it a hormone disruptor, like many other chemicals in plastics.

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How Plastics Are Made

Plastics, also called polymers, are produced by the conversion of natural products or by the synthesis from primary chemicals generally coming from oil, natural gas, or coal. Most plastics are based on the carbon atom.

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Plastics | Uses, Benefits, and Chemical Safety Facts

Uses & Benefits. Find information on the wide variety of plastics used in hundreds of household and consumer products. Plastics enable sustainable, durable, long-lasting design and construction in homes, buildings, and infrastructure like bridges.

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Recycling and the future of the plastics industry | McKinsey

What the chemical industry—along with major consumer industries, the waste industry, and indeed society, more broadly—has been lacking is a clear picture of a path forward under which the volumes of plastics being discarded could be recaptured and reused.

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Plastics & Chemicals Industry in North Carolina | EDPNC

North Carolina’s 75,000+ jobs in plastic and chemical manufacturing make up the fifth-largest industry workforce in the U.S. And with an industry growth rate 1.5 times the national average since 2010, the state represents a prime location for new investment.

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How to Avoid Toxic Chemicals in Plastics - MADE SAFE

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Toxicological Threats of Plastic | Trash-Free Waters | US EPA

There is a growing concern about the hazards plastic pollution in the marine environment. Plastics pose both physical (e.g., entanglement, gastrointestinal blockage, reef destruction) and chemical threats (e.g., bioaccumulation of the chemical ingredients of plastic or toxic chemicals sorbed to plastics) to wildlife and the marine ecosystem.

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