Because these collectors need not withstand high temperatures, they can use less expensive materials such as plastic or rubber.

But these operations are cross subsidising small, under performing portfolios and a high fixed cost base.

At the end of this process, we have a mixed plastic composite many different types of plastics and many different grades of plastics.

And in the process, we started recreating how the plastics industry makes plastics.

But what actually interests me a lot more is the fact that in the tip of each controller is a relatively high performing infrared camera.

Chemical vapor deposition (CVD) is a chemical process used to produce high quality, high performance, solid materials.

i have a cap from plastic

Plastic does not burn easily.

Plastic does not break easily.

Capt. Charles Moore on the seas of plastic

They store the plastics on the roofs.

And these are just a few examples of companies that are buying our plastic, replacing virgin plastic, to make their new products.

They are highly reactive, and they are super plastic, and so the autists are probably capable of building and learning a symphony which is unthinkable for us.

Mike Biddle We can recycle plastic

And this becomes the currency of the plastics industry.

And sometimes they'll resort to what's known as the burn and sniff technique where they'll burn the plastic and smell the fumes to try to determine the type of plastic.

Indeed, how else to explain the poor performance of a country as well endowed as Switzerland, or as highly populated as Nigeria? And what accounts for South Korea s exceptional performance if not a coherent sports policy?

Now because the plastics are so plentiful and by the way, those other methods don't lead to the recovery of plastics, obviously but people do try to recover the plastics.

Eben Bayer Are mushrooms the new plastic?

This discovery formed the foundation of the modern plastics industry.

Monitoring of compliance with no dumping regulations for plastics

The advantages of certification include its potential clearly to distinguish those companies that have achieved high levels of performance (as defined by the standards).

It's mostly many types of plastics and many types of metals.

We grind the plastic down to about the size of your small fingernail.

Prepackaged meals may come with a disposable plastic spork.

The traditional way to make plastics is with oil or petrochemicals.

They manufacture plastics. They use large quantities chloroprene and benzene.

But bioplastics are not a silver bullet for managing plastics waste.

Similarly, the mixer housing can be made of metal or plastic.

Prefabricated from the most traditional of materials, but that material because of the technology, the computing ability, the ability to prefabricate, make high performance components out of timber very much at the cutting edge.

PHILADELPHIA Imagine that you are shopping for a high performance car, but that you are not allowed to look under the hood. What s inside is a secret.

In firms with a high CEO pay slice, the probability of a CEO turnover after bad performance (controlling for the CEO s length of service) is lower.

But actually, plastics are several times more valuable than steel.

We said, there's got to be a more sustainable way to make plastics.

It's a bad thing that plastic breaks down into smaller little bits, because it's always still plastic.

And instead of plopping down several hundred million dollars to build a chemical plant that will only make one type of plastic for its entire life, our plants can make any type of plastic we feed them.

will never gather up all the plastic and put the ocean back together again.

Plastics are a whole other story well less than 10 percent are recovered.

NEWARK, NJ Plastics are everywhere.

Starting in the early 1950s, titanium began to be used extensively for military aviation purposes, particularly in high performance jets, starting with aircraft such as the F100 Super Sabre and Lockheed A 12.

And they said this one friend of mine said, I've got one word for you plastic.

The waste is separated into recyclable materials (plastics, metals) and organic waste.

Button copy signs with plastic pips rather than glass appeared in the 1970s.

In 1989, OMV acquired a 25 stake in plastics group, Borealis.

But the process of separating the petroleum based recyclable plastics from other kinds of plastics and solid waste is difficult, costly, and labor intensive, so only a small proportion is recycled.