Renewable Energy

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Thanks to plastics bikes went on diet and dropped weight: 20 kg in 1903 -> 6.8 kg in 2014 !

An Indian teacher of chemistry known as Plastic Man has built more than 5000 km of roads with plastic waste.

Baggage made of polycarbonate resin are ultra-light (light enough to be held with your forefinger when the bag is empty) and yet highly durable.

More than 50 per cent of all medicine products worldwide are made of plastics.

The world is spending 16 billion one-way plastics syringes per year.

Plastic whisper brakes in freight trains are only half as loud as conventional brakes.

A large German automobile manufacturer is using recycled PET bottles for seat cushions in some of their car product series.

A new polymer can heal itself when damaged similar to the human skin.

Main countries of Europe will save at least 78.000 tons of plastics per year if the produced pens were made from recycled plastic.

This pen with a water bottle shape is called B2P (From bottle to pen) and is made of 89% of plastic coming from recycled bottles of water.© Pilot

The first bio-based car was build 73 ago with a body made of soybeans/hemp (70%) and resin binder (30%)

The typical life span of plastic applications in building and construction is 30 to 50 years, with many plastics pipes installed over 50 years ago still functioning well

Selling grapes in plastics trays or bags has reduced in-store waste of grapes by 20%.

The plastics Industry launched over 180 projects worldwide for solutions on marine litter.

Researchers at Texas A&M University have developed a spongy plastic that could help regenerate broken bones.

Wind turbines’ rotor blades and photovoltaic panels contain large amounts of plastics, helping to achieve the efficient production of renewable energy. In these two applications, plastics save 140 times and 340 times the emissions produced during their production respectively.