Prices of styrene in Asia this week rose to a two-month high on a background of limited supply and stable demand, ICIS reports with reference to market participants. The cost of styrene on Wednesday, May 2, increased by USD22.5 per tonne to USD1,402 per ton, breaking the level of USD1,400 per ton. The last time […]
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Year: 2018
How to distinguish dangerous plastic for health and whether there is a safe
Over the last hundred years, plastic has firmly come into our lives Plastic has firmly entered our life and is not going to leave. Approximately one hundred of its microparticles fall into our body during a meal, scientists say. It can be a packing of products, plastic bags, a disposable cup with tea – anything. […]
American chemists have created plastic that can be infinitely processed
American chemists have created plastic that can be processed endlessly. Scientists from the University of Colorado state that they were able to synthesize a polymer material that is divided into individual monomers. As the project manager, Professor Eugene Chen, said, the new material is based on gamma-butyrolactone, only the combination of two carbon atoms in […]
KAZANORGSINTEZ RAISES PRICES OF HDPE
Kazanorgsintez (CBS, part of the TAIF group), the largest producer of polyethylene (PE) in Russia, raises prices for low-density polyethylene (HDPE) for supplies in May, according to the ICIS-MRC Price Review. As the customers of the enterprise informed, Kazanorgsintez announced an increase in the prices of HDPE for deliveries to the domestic market in May […]
Scientists have revealed a record concentration of microplastic in the Arctic ice.
In general, scientists found in the Arctic 17 types of artificial materials, among them – polyethylene and polypropylene, lacquer, nylon and others. Scientists of the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research (Bremerhaven, Germany) discovered a record concentration of synthetic particles in blocks of ice of the Arctic Ocean. According to Deutsche Welle, some […]
Ukrainian imports of polypropylene in January-March remained at the level of 2017
According to the results of the first three months of this year, the total volume of imports of polypropylene to the Ukrainian market amounted to 28.4 thousand tons, which corresponds to the same indicator in 2017. The decrease in demand for homopolymers of propylene (PP-homo) was compensated by the growth in demand for copolymers of […]
Ukrainian imports of polyethylene in the first quarter remained at the level of 2017
Ukrainian imports of polyethylene in the first quarter remained at the level of 2017 According to the results of the first three months of the year, the total volume of polyethylene imports to the Ukrainian market actually remained at the level of the same indicator of 2017 and amounted to about 59.1 thousand tons. At […]
In three regions of Ukraine burning landfills
According to the State Emergency Situations Service, fires in landfills in Rivne, Zakarpatye and Poltava oblasts flashed in one day. The extinguishing continues, the total area is 460 square meters. Fires broke out in landfills in Rivne, Zakarpatye and Poltava oblasts for one day, their total area is 460 square meters, according to the State […]
Garbage in Ukraine: when do factories for waste disposal work?
Garbage in Ukraine: when do factories for waste disposal work? Immediately 90 tons of Lviv garbage this week found in the Zhytomyr region. It is an accident? Or a sign that the garbage crisis could again break out in Ukraine? Thousands of Ukrainian landfills are overcrowded. Illegal landfills – even more. Recycling is not established. […]
In Lviv, people staged an action against the garbage recycling plant
In Lviv, “garbage” scandals are flaring up for more than a year. This time, people went to the action against the construction of a garbage processing plant, which was to replace dumps. Residents of Lviv arranged a picket near the Lviv city council, opposing the construction of a garbage processing plant on Plastova Street, 13. […]