Researchers at Ohio State University have developed a way to make PVC more durable and less likely to shed microplastics. PVC (polyvinyl chloride) plastics currently rank third among the most used ...

About 70 percent of PVC goes to building and construction uses such as pipes, cables, siding, window and door profiles, flooring, fencing, decking and roofing. The low-cost, easy-to-install products ...

Recycling polyolefin plastics is inefficient and costly because their strong bonds make them hard to break down and require tedious pre-sorting. The future of plastic recycling may soon get much less ...

ANN ARBOR – PVC, or polyvinyl chloride, is a prevalent plastic in the United States and is the third highest plastic produced in the world by volume. We encounter PVC every day, since numerous ...

Cleveland — New technologies and growth opportunities are showing the value of PVC compounds. "It's important to reinforce what PVC and all plastics are doing," Geon Performance Solutions Chief ...

"UMass Lowell is among the nation's leading centers for plastics technology, and its Plastics Engineering program...is helping to push new boundaries of how these versatile materials are used, ...

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