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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
Gory anti-freeze murder case

A US court convicted a man of murdering his wife by poisoning with ethylene glycol ( MEG ) anti-freeze, according to this gruesome article which my colleague Nel found today on CNN.com/crime. He was sentenced to life in prison without parole. The case was clinched when a computer expert testified that...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 07-03-2008
Sizzling green chemicals

Here is the list of the chosen ones, the green blog's new green chemicals for the month of June. The question is... are they worthy of the word green (in your own definition of green)? 1. Ecolab's alternative pesticides - Ecolab's more sophisticated rat traps, CheckPoint Multiple-Catch Inserts...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 07-01-2008
Ashok Kishore to head Trammochem trading

In a surprise move which rates very highly in the realms of Blog gossip and has set all the yahoo messenger screens buzzing, petrochemical trader Trammochem announced today that Ashok Kishore - well-known trader in aromatics - would "assume the responsibility of Trammochem's worldwide trading...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 06-30-2008
Dry-cleaners go bust on solvents hikes

Dry-cleaners across the US are going out of business at the fastest rate for 40 years due to the recent hikes in prices for perchloroethylene , the cleaning solvent, as well as plastics for garment bags, energy to run the machines, and fuel for their vans, according to this article in today's TimesOnline...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 06-30-2008
Fado and dancing lift the mood at Lisbon EPL

The highlight of the Lisbon European Petrochemical Luncheon ( EPL ) was the spectacular party thrown by Peninsula and Lakeview at a ruined monastery on Friday evening. With lots of wives and partners over for the weekend, there were more than 100 guests dining under the stars, quaffing wines from the...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 06-24-2008
Who's the most sustainable of them all?

This new report from the Roberts Environmental Center of Claremont McKenna College might answer the question of what companies are the most sustainable in California. Titled "Analysis of Sustainability Reporting of Fortune Companies in California," the report contains a compilation of Pacific...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 06-19-2008
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
ICIS news editor in Wall Street Journal

ICIS news editor Americas, John Waggoner was quoted in the Wall Street Journal's MarketBeat blog on Friday . In an article entitled "One Word: Plastics", harking back to the famous advice in "The Graduate" but perhaps not so wise today, John explained the impact of rising energy...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 06-16-2008
Post-holiday chemical reading

While the Blog has been away on holiday (of which, more later), it seems that the mainstream press has been full of items of interest to chemical folk. UK supermarkets are now selling milk in recyclable plastic pouches , with a plastic jug, or "revolutionary eco-friendly milk container" to...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 06-16-2008

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