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Clean Up Champions Profile – Braskem
May 8, 2023 As we proved with our first installment in this blog series, PLASTICS’ Clean Up Champions initiative is revealing champions already in our midst. Today, we’re introducing you to another champion, one of the world’s largest plastics producers and leading producer of renewable plastics and chemicals focused on creating sustainable solutions—Braskem. -
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Plastic Recycling Week Shares Innovations & Achievements
December 16, 2022 November 14 through 18 of 2022 marked the first official Plastic Recycling Week social media campaign to provide education about the current rate of plastic recycling and the efforts being made to increase it. PLASTICS' Recycling Committee identified 5 main topic areas to post about, rallying plastic equipment and material suppliers, processors, brands, and consumers to share what they are currently doing to help achieve progress in plastic recycling. -
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Operation Clean Sweep: Growing Larger and Stronger
December 5, 2022 Operation Clean Sweep (OCS) is an initiative founded by PLASTICS to empower companies committed to zero resin loss in operations and provide those companies with resources to support secure management of plastic resin. The program is operated by PLASTICS in partnership with the American Chemistry Council’s (ACC) Plastics Division. The industry-led program gathered its OCSblue members in Houston on November 2nd, 2022 to chart the program’s expansion through 2023 and beyond. -
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A Look Back at Bioplastics Week 2022
October 4, 2022 Another one for the books – our Bioplastics Week 2022 social media campaign was a great success! Our goal each year is to provide a variety of educational information about bioplastics to those both within and outside our immediate audience of PLASTICS members. With 5 non-member organizations directly involved in sharing the #BioplasticsWeek hashtag in their posts, and the 13 informative video interviews we posted, Bioplastics Week content was able to be seen by 2 million individuals. Here's just a snippet of what they saw... -
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A Look at PLASTICS Recycling Open House 2022
September 26, 2022 PLASTICS recently hosted a compelling annual, open-to-the-public virtual event—the PLASTICS Recycling Open House. Eight organizations joined PLASTICS in sharing their latest initiatives and innovations to improve recycling and recycling rates. -
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Four More Companies Achieve OCS Blue Status
July 5, 2022 Operation Clean Sweep (OCS) is an industry-led campaign, dedicated to helping every plastic resin handling operation prevent plastic resin loss. Recently, Quantix SCS, Formosa Plastics Corporation, PSC Group and Sunrise Plastic/Sunrise Services, LLC all met the rigorous standards for elite OCS blue-level membership. -
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Plastic, The Industry, A Sustainability Enabler - Part 3
May 3, 2022 The first two parts of this series focused on of how plastic—the material—contributes to the accomplishing the U.N. Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Plastic products contribute directly to enabling the realization of 10 out of the 17 SDGs; almost 60%. Arguably, plastic materials aid in the realization of the remaining 7 goals as well. -
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Plastic: A Sustainability Enabler — Part 2
April 5, 2022 This second article in a three-part series continues the use of the universally agreed upon Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) from the United Nations as a framework for offering a clear vision of how impossible it would be to achieve a sustainable future without plastic. -
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Plastic: A Sustainability Enabler – Part 1
March 22, 2022 In the first of a three-part blog series, Heather Nortz, PLASTICS' Manager for Sustainability and Materials, discusses how plastics are necessary to achieving the United Nation's Sustainable Development Goals.