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An homage to "Living without Polypropylene"

The Blog is shocked to see that our own ground-breaking article on " Living without polypropylene for a week - Cold Turkey " by Andy Brice in ICIS Chemical Business on 19 May 2008 has been the subject of an "homage" today by a reporter on the BBC website and turned into " A Month...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-01-2008
French bottled water blog

As the anti bottled-water movement grows more vociferous in Europe and the US, there are signs that even the French are moving away from their dependency on Badoit, Evian and Vittel. More than two thirds of French people now regularly drink tap water compared with 59% five years ago, according to an...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 07-29-2008
Totally recyclable PLA cups for ICIS smoothies

Nigel Davis enthuses about drinking his smoothies out of fully recyclable PLA ... It's getting everywhere. These recyclable PLA (polylactic acid) smoothie cups were spotted in the ICIS canteen on Wednesday. The big recycling push here at Reed Business Information (RBI - ICIS's parent company...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 07-16-2008
Protecting our heroes with plastics

These chemical advertisers know how to tug on your heartstrings. The Blog's eye was caught by this heroic fireman rescuing a cute child with the aid of Bayer's "high-tech plastic with extremely high break resistance and impact strength (making it) ideal for use in helmet visors." "Bringing...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 07-15-2008
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
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
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
Plastic Bag Ban = Junk Science

(Thanks to Daily Mail for photo.) As sure as night follows day, last week’s outpouring of anti plastic bag sentiment had to be followed this week by a total rebuttal by the world’s scientists and science journalists. Scientists are now queuing up to rubbish the campaign, in articles such as: ‘Sexed-up...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 03-10-2008
Plastic toys relocate from China to UK

Cute piece in the FT yesterday about how a plastic toy manufacturer has relocated his production from China to the UK: "Value strategy is no puzzle for toymaker". Although the costs were three times less in China, the advantages of logistics and image outweighed this.

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 03-04-2008

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