Manufacturing Process

Processing of polymer also includes the addition of plasticizers, dyes and flame-retardant chemicals. Synthetic plastic is made by a reaction known as polymerisation, which can be performed in two different ways: Addition polymerisation: Synthesis includes adding together monomers in a long chain.

Synthetic fabrics, such as nylon and polyester, are produced entirely from chemicals. Natural fabrics, such as cotton, silk, and wool are made of fibres from plants and animals. Synthetic fabrics are useful because they have very different or enhanced (improved) properties in comparison to natural materials.

1. Plastic extrusion: Plastic is heated and pushed through a heated chamber by a screw.
2. Molding: Plastic is forced through a die that creates the final shape of the part.
3. Cooling: The extruded plastic is cooled.
4. Cut or spool: The continuous shape is spooled or cut into lengths.

Some of these compounds have been found to alter hormones or have other potential human health effects. Plastic debris, laced with chemicals and often ingested by marine animals, can injure or poison wildlife. Plastic buried deep in landfills can leach harmful chemicals that spread into groundwater.

There is certainly good plastic and bad plastic. Its association with health risks is because most plastics contain chemicals that are known as hormone-disruptor and they can leach into food and beverages. Plastics are made from petroleum – a non-renewable material and it takes large volume of landfill space.

Plastic affects human health. Toxic chemicals leach out of plastic and are found in the blood and tissue of nearly all of us. Exposure to them is linked to cancers, birth defects, impaired immunity, endocrine disruption and other ailments.

Summer School: 5 Ways to Reduce Your Plastic Use

1. Be Mindful of Plastic Packaging. Single-use and disposable plastic packaging have a general use of 10 minutes or less.
2. Always Keep a Reusable Bag Handy. Globally, more than one billion bags are used every minute.
3. Avoid Microbeads in Plastic.
4. Plastic Recycling.
5. Demand your government takes action.

Why do we need single-use plastic in the first place? When food or other products are packaged in plastic, they are protected and in the case of fresh goods, they remain fresher for longer. Keeping food from spoiling reduces food waste, which helps reduce the strain in the planet’s resources and keeps costs down.

If we eliminated plastics from our lives, we’d save hundreds of marine species from entanglement and plastic ingestion. Plastic can also negatively impact our health – some of the compounds and chemicals found in plastic, such as BPA, have been found to alter hormones or have other potential human health effects.

IMAGINING A WORLD ENTIRELY WITHOUT PLASTIC IS IMPOSSIBLE It would not be possible to imagine our modern world without mobile phones, computers or the internet. Unfortunately, all these electronic devices require plastics. Without plastics, our global communication and transportation network would cease to exist.

Plastics help us protect the environment by reducing waste, lowering greenhouse gas emissions, and saving energy at home, at work, and on the road. Plastic insulation, sealants, and other building products are making our homes significantly more energy efficient, while reducing costs for heating and cooling.

HDPE is the most commonly recycled plastic and is considered one of the safest forms of plastic.

Usually clear in color, the vast majority of disposable disposable beverage and food containers and bottles are made of #1 plastic. This plastic is relatively safe, but it is important to keep it out of the heat or it could cause carcinogens (like the flame retardant antimony trioxide) to leach into your liquids.

What is hard plastic called? High-density polyethylene (HDPE) is a hard rigid plastic. A low-density grade ( LDPE )is tough and flexible.

Polypropylene Copolymer (PPCP) is a colorless, non flammable, non reactive solid with no odor. Polypropylene Copolymer (PPCP) is usually stored and/or transported as 25 Kg Bags or 1 MT FIBC jumbo Bags. It is used in raw material for plastic Processing industry.