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Conferences & Events

May 21

Managing Animal Mortalities 4th International Symposium on Managing Animal Mortality, Products, By-Products, and Associated Health Risk - Dearborn, Mich. - May 21-24, 2012 Details

May 22

Vitafoods Europe Focusing on nutraceuticals, functional foods and the functional drinks industries. Geneva, Switzerland. Details

May 22

PLMA - Amsterdam Private Label Manufacturers Association's World of Private Label - Amsterdam - May 22-23, 2012 Details

May 23

IFIA/HFE Japan 2012 The 17th International Food Ingredients & Additives Exhibition and Conference (IFIA) in conjunction with the 10th Health Foods Expo. Tokyo, Japan. Details

More Calendar Events

The EU is paying fishermen to catch plastic, rather than fish.

Europe puts price on plastic at sea

Plastic becomes a valuable catch under new EU pilot ON May 6, 2011 9:05 AM

Europe's PVC industry is developing a sustainability commitment for the next 10 years

PVC production and sustainability

Report highlights environmental advances in PVC manufacturing ON May 4, 2011 1:27 PM

Canadian company creates bioplastic dental products

Biodegradable toothbrush a North American first ON April 25, 2011 8:58 AM

US contest to develop bioplastics symbol

Winner of bioplastics design gets $25k ON December 29, 2010 12:22 PM

Sustainability

Recycled resin in Ford vehicles

BASF to provide Ford with resin for polyamide ON August 22, 2011 12:44 PM

Quebec bag maker ties things up at camp

Polykar’s compostable bags used for Montreal zero waste camp ON August 17, 2011 12:24 PM

Fungi breaks down plastic

Yale students find organism to degrade polyurethane ON August 8, 2011 3:33 PM

A diaper full of beans

R&D firm replaces polymers in diapers with soybean ON August 5, 2011 12:22 PM

New PE caps industry first

Nestlé using Braskem’s green polyethylene cap ON August 3, 2011 9:28 AM

Have your say on the new bioplastics logo

Cereplast holds online forum to develop manufacturer guidelines for bioplastics symbol ON July 28, 2011 1:33 PM

Green chemical sector to hit $4 trillion

Polymer alternatives will represent largest proportion of green chemical industry growth ON July 22, 2011 12:38 PM

Old tires form new Ford auto parts

Ford and RPM manufacturing seals and gaskets using recycled rubber ON July 19, 2011 9:14 AM

Cross-border collaboration for plastics

SPI, American Chemistry Council, CPIA and SPI form the North American Plastics Alliance ON July 8, 2011 12:30 PM

Ontario plant to recover waste

Durham facility could help recover multi-composite plastics ON July 4, 2011 3:32 PM

New rubber R&D centre in Ontario

LANXESS facility to focus on developing bio-butyl ON June 30, 2011 11:57 AM

GreenCore Composites strikes supplier deal

Optima Colour to distribute GreenCore’s natural fiber composites ON June 28, 2011 2:10 PM

PVC industry takes up new sustainability goals

VinylPlus program to increase PVC recovery rates ON June 27, 2011 3:39 PM

New pellet stewardship program

Operation Clean Sweep helps plastics companies work toward zero pellet loss ON June 22, 2011 3:00 PM

Canada’s new plastic currency

Polymer notes take over at the Bank of Canada ON June 20, 2011 3:31 PM

Ontario plastics-to-fuel company to grow U.S. presence

New York regulators issue permit for JBI’s Plastic2Oil process ON June 20, 2011 8:45 AM

The dark side of bioplastics

U.S. researchers find renewable sourced plastic releases harmful gases ON June 17, 2011 10:53 AM

New green chemical plant in Ont

Switchable Solutions solvent gives plastics new life ON June 13, 2011 3:05 PM

Plastic gets picked up in Capital City

Ottawa adds plastic to blue box recycling ON June 13, 2011 9:14 AM

Company bets on recycled plastic

Cintas Corp. turning used plastic bottles into casino uniforms ON June 10, 2011 9:41 AM

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