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Chemistry World July 2006	Editorial: Need a Carrier Bag? The world is drowing in a sea of plastic bags. Chemists are helping address the problem with better biodegradable materials, and by highlighting and tracking the environmental impact of plastics and their breakdown products.
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National Defense June 2010 Grace V. Jean	Converting Eco-Unfriendly Plastic Into Fuel Natural State Research Inc., based in Stamford, Conn., has developed a technology that converts waste plastics into hydrocarbon liquid fuel through a thermal degradation process.
Delicious Living February 2005 Jean Weiss	The Plastics Conundrum How does using plastic really affect us? Who knows.
Fast Company September 2008 Melanie Warner	Green Business: Plastic Potion No. 9 Recycling should be the easy way to get people involved in helping the environment. Too bad the businesses behind it are blowing it.
The Motley Fool April 18, 2007 Nathan Parmelee	The Slow Death of the Plastic Bag It looks like the disposable plastic bag is on its way out. The move away from plastic bags isn't likely to be a big deal for investors.
Chemistry World October 13, 2014 Rebecca Trager	Pyrolysis touted as billion dollar US industry Rapid development of pyrolysis technology, more commonly known as plastics-to-oil, could contribute $9 billion to the US economy and spawn more than 40,000 domestic jobs.
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Chemistry World October 1, 2012 Phillip Broadwith	Polystyrene depolymerisation: new recycling option A continuous process for converting waste polystyrene back to styrene monomer has been developed by US chemists.
Delicious Living November 2007	Break the Throwaway Habit Really want to help the environment while food shopping? Don't decide between paper and plastic; decide to bring your own reusable bags to the store with you.
Chemistry World May 6, 2015 Angeli Mehta	European parliament supports plastic bag crackdown The European parliament has voted to clamp down on the use of thin plastic carrier bags, billions of which end up as litter.
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Chemistry World October 30, 2008 Lewis Brindley	Plastic labware contaminant risk Chemicals leaching from plastic lab equipment could be compromising the accuracy of biological studies, warn Canadian researchers.
Popular Mechanics November 10, 2008	Recycling Myths: PM Debunks 5 Half Truths about Recycling The dominant factor in virtually every case is the enormous amount of energy required to turn raw materials into metals and plastics compared to the energy needed to reprocess products that already exist.
Fast Company February 2014 Tara Moore	Preposterous New Plastics Pineapples make car bumpers!... Milk makes chairs!... Bugs make utensils!...
Delicious Living February 2005 Julie Rothschild Levi	Plastic Planet Although it may not be necessary (or realistic) to purge plastics from our lives, it may well be worthwhile to consider reducing their use, for the sake of our health and our world.
Technology Research News January 14, 2004 Kimberly Patch	Pressure shapes plastic If you want to turn a plastic into a liquid you usually have to apply heat. A material with a nanoscale mix of hard and soft plastics, however, can be made to flow at room temperature, given high-pressure. The result could be cheaper and greener recycling.
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BusinessWeek May 14, 2009 Christopher Palmeri	A Recycling Boom Gone Bust Because of slumping demand and falling prices, the recycling divisions of trash-hauling companies are facing big losses this year.
Chemistry World March 7, 2013 James Urquhart	Recycling electronics with dimethyl sulfoxide Chinese researchers have developed a simple and environmentally friendly method to salvage the materials found in waste printed circuits boards using the solvent dimethyl sulfoxide.
Food Processing April 2007 David Feder	Well Noted: Judging Health Food by Its Cover Making a case for more aggressive pursuit of sustainable packaging now that bioplastics have caught up to demand.
The Motley Fool December 20, 2011 Matt Koppenheffer	Waste Management's Tough 2011 It was a tough year for Waste Management shareholders.
The Motley Fool July 15, 2008 David Lee Smith	Maybe It's Time to Trash Your Portfolio What looked like a terrific combination of the second- and third-largest waste haulers, Allied Waste and Republic Services, may just have been trashed.
The Motley Fool December 18, 2006 Jack Uldrich	BASF's Smaller Focus Nanotechnology is poised to recharge the world of plastics products. If you are looking for a relatively safe way to profit at least modestly from this emerging field, BASF is a good company to consider.
BusinessWeek May 7, 2007 Gene G. Marcial	The Greening Of Metabolix Metabolix's stock has streaked. The company uses bioengineered microorganisms to ferment sugar in the making of biodegradable plastic and chemicals.
Fast Company November 2009 Tim McKeough	Novomer's Eco-Friendly Plastics Reduces Greenhouse Gas Novomer's innovation cuts most of the oil and guilt.
The Motley Fool February 15, 2005 Rich Smith	What's That Smell? Sorting through Waste Management's numbers. While the stock is bargain valued, can the company grow its profits and/or cash generation at roughly 30% per year over the long term?
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Chemistry World October 23, 2007 Rebecca Trager	Smaller US Plants Triple Toxic Emissions Companies in the US and Canada have achieved a continued decline in chemical pollution - but only at the plants emitting the largest amounts of toxic waste.
Geotimes February 2004	Call for ocean policy overhaul America needs a new ocean policy. That's the message coming out of several sessions at last week's meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Sciences which focused on the health of America's oceans.
The Motley Fool February 21, 2006 Stephen D. Simpson	Waste Not, Want Not? Can Waste Connections translate market-leading margins into better returns on capital? Investors, take note.
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Entrepreneur January 2008 JJ Ramberg	It's in the Bag The founder of The ChicoBag Company wants everyone to follow his environmentally friendly example. His reusable shopping bags are made of nylon and can be folded small enough to fit in a glove compartment, backpack or even a back pocket.
The Motley Fool October 31, 2008 David Lee Smith	Waste Management Cleans Up Waste Management outdid the economy to pick up a strong quarter.
Chemistry World September 2008 Dylan Stiles	Column: Bench Monkey Decades of constant oceanic currents have resulted in a huge area of the Pacific that has become a veritable black hole of human-produced waste.
Popular Mechanics January 13, 2009 Joe P. Hasler	What's the Future of Recycling After the Market's Precipitous Plunge? When the global economy began its death spiral in September, it took the recycling industry down with it.
The Motley Fool July 31, 2008 Christopher Barker	Think Green to Make Green Waste Management sits atop the heap of trash-hauling services.
Chemistry World July 28, 2010 Matt Wilkinson	Recycling CO2 to make plastic Massachusetts-based Novomer has received $18.4 million from the US Department of Energy to develop a process for converting carbon dioxide into polycarbonate polymers that could be used to make plastic bottles.
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Chemistry World March 21, 2014 Hamish Crawford	Waste plastics unzipped into useful chemicals A team from Northland College in Wisconsin, and from the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, have developed a way to depolymerize polyesters and polycarbonates into diols and methanol, using ruthenium based pincer catalysts.
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