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  • Serbian plastics factory raided in hunt for Mladic

    A Serbian plastics factory was raided by security forces on Monday in the search for war crimes fugitive Ratko Mladic, according to reports on BBC radio and on the Telegraph newspaper website. The owners of the PVC plant in the west of the country, which was named as Vujic Valjevo , denied all knowledge...
    Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 11-10-2008

  • Green chemicals in August

    The chemical industry has been busy churning out new biobased and other green chemicals last month ranging from cleaners to cookwares to films and foams. I do wonder how prices of some of these chemicals compare to traditional products. Do they still have premiums over petroleum-based products despite...
    Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 09-03-2008

  • Why are Brits rubbish at recycling?

    My colleague Ed Cox has quite a controversial take on the British approach to recycling... As I danced down the stairs on Saturday morning with another couple of bin bags full of rubbish, I asked myself why we Brits are so bad at recycling? I'm not a bad person but it just never occurs to me to put...
    Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 07-03-2008

  • Chemical safety of shower curtains

    Are you worried about the smell of your new shower curtain? Or how about the smell of your new car? Now that I mention it, perhaps you had been feeling nervous about the "lurking menace in the bathroom... quietly off-gassing a cruel industrial bouquet of death vapours". I am indebted to Nel...
    Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 06-17-2008

  • Don't sniff your shower curtain

    Is it just me or is chemical paranoia among consumers seems to be much worse these days? Take for example these news regarding vinyl shower curtains and compact florescent lamps or CFL (which I thought are already considered green and more safe). A recent report from the US-based Center for Health, Environment...
    Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 06-12-2008
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