In #OCTOBER 1939
‘Handmaidens to Hands!’
Plaskon Molded Color
October 1939
#Plaskon #plastics #ureaformaldehyde #moldedplastics #design #industrialdesign #handles #buttons

Our society has gotten so insane we've normalized drinking 'high end' teas in plastic tea bags and passing them off as 'silk sachets'

#plastic #plastics #microplastics #nanoplastics #plasticpollution

Hundreds of children and parents enrolled in long-term study of the effects of common chemicals on #brain development and #cognition. They've been at this for more than a decade and have findings to share. #plastics

🐦New study shows the increasing prevalence of #plastics in Sable shearwaters (seabirds), including pellets & lids,highlighting the importance of new EU legislation targeting #plastic caps & upcoming measures preventing pellet spills from ships (IMO).
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Borouge opens 100 million euro plastics plant in Schwechat #plastics #recycling #Schwechat

BREAKING: DEMONSTRATIONS AT 22 STARBUCKS STORES ACROSS 11 STATES CALL ON COFFEE GIANT TO STOP LYING ABOUT PLASTICS RECYCLING

#Starbucks #plastics

awesome. #pollution #plastics #illinois #midwest #banpellets

informative but sobering. #plastics #pollution #pervasive

#plastics #recycling #circulareconomy

Great & full days in Berlin with a panel discussion of the United Nations Association of Germany about the #Plastics Crisis & 10th anniversary of the German Round Table on Marine Litter! @umweltbundesamt.bsky.social
@doknoblauch.bsky.social
@awi.de @umweltbundesamt.bsky.social @helmholtz.de

<<One misnomer that I think a lot of people don't know about plastic is that recycling is not a solution. Every time plastic gets recreated through recycling, the chemicals that are bound into the plastic can leach out more and more.>>
#climatecrisis #health #plastics #microplastics #recycling

Chemicals is #plastics is a growing concern.

POPRC spent the day discussing flame retardants used in plastics and chemicals unintentionally produced from burning plastics. @brsconventions.bsky.social

In #SEPTEMBER 1943
‘For Vision, LUMARITH, a Celanese Plastic’
‘For dials and gauges - For aircraft - For gas masks’
Celanese Corporation of America
September 1943
#WW2 #plastics #cellulosics #CelluloseAcetate #aviation #graphicdesign

Posted 4 weeks ago by @greenpeaceusa.bsky.social

"Across the world, #oceans are being pushed to the brink by #pollution, destructive industrial #fishing & overfishing, the looming threat of deep #seamining and fossil-fuelled #climate change.

#Plastics are made from #fossilfuels, and production..."

In #SEPTEMBER 1943
‘What's he got that you didn't have?’
Union Carbide. September 1943
#WW2 #chemicalsindustry #materials #plastics #Bakelite #vinylite

*The Saturday Evening Post*, January 27, 1923
#plastics #Bakelite #phenolics #jewelry #battleships

‘For Your Daughter’s Jewelry and the Ponderous Dreadnought. The Material of a Thousand Uses.’
Bakelite Corporation.
#plastics #Bakelite #phenolics #jewelry #battleships

#OTD in 1924
'Dr. Leo H. Baekeland - “It will not burn. It will not melt.”'
Cover of *Time*, September 22, 1924
Commemorating his vitally important invention of the first entirely synthetic material, the phenolic plastic he christened #Bakelite
👇🧵
#plastics #LeoBaekeland

Around 10,000 chemicals are added to #plastics.

Norway is concerned that some brominated flame retardants in plastics might also be POPs - chemicals that persist in the environment, are toxic, travel around the world, and move up food chains. @brsconventions.bsky.social