Contemplating LDPE vs. HDPE plastic cutting boards? One of these is more durable and better for heavy-duty tasks, making your time in the kitchen safer.

When it comes to boat construction, all sorts of materials can take part in the assembly. Bigger vessels need heavy-duty structures to last, but even materials like polyethylene can make an excellent ...

Polyethylene (PE) is a semicrystalline polymer that is one of the most extensively manufactured polymers in the world for consumer products and packaging. Shopping bags, milk bottles, storage ...

Bakcycle Recycling optically sorts and harvests LDPE plastic from flexible packaging at a facility in Izmir, Turkey. In a sorting process based on color and polymer, the first and second Tomra ...

LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The polyethylene market is expected to grow by USD 39.96 billion during 2020-2024. The report also provides the market impact and new opportunities created due to the COVID-19 ...

North American prices for post-consumer low density polyethylene pellets have continued to increase in 2024. Sources in contact with Plastics News say recycled LDPE pellets have increased on average 3 ...

Polyethylene plastics — in particular, the ubiquitous plastic bag that blights the landscape — are notoriously hard to recycle. They’re sturdy and difficult to break down, and if they’re recycled at ...

Margaret Sobkowicz-Kline, Ph.D., Professor, Plastics Engineering, University of Massachusetts Lowell Jay Park, Associate Professor, Ph.D., Plastics Engineering, University of Massachusetts Lowell ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The time of wooden cutting boards is long gone. They sure had a moment, but we are in the era of plastics now, and they seem to ...