Medegen Holdings bought Porex Medical Products, which makes plastic supplies used by hospitals and other health care providers.
Sprint's Hargroves concedes that integrating any new innovation into the plastics supply chain carries risks and that manufacturers are often cautious breed about adopting new technologies.
The reason that so little action has been taken so far is that no one player within the plastics supply chain has the power to change what is a complex global industry, and it has been difficult to get everyone around the same table.
"There's a whole suite of things that we need to do, all the way from the consumer level up through the plastics supply chain and the major corporations and consumer goods companies, all the way to local governments and municipalities up to national, international development funding and the U.N.," says Ocean Conservancy's Woglom.
In Maine, Eliot Coleman has pioneered a sophisticated market garden entirely under plastic, to supply his "food shed" with local produce all winter long; even in January his solar-heated farm beats California on freshness and quality, if not price.
Within this framework, random material variability of joint components plays an important role, because it affects the joint flexural strength and, as a consequence, also the plastic rotation supply.
Plastic tubes supplied air to the seemingly inert figures.
The Ettes carried teddy bears and bouquets of flowers in plastic wrap, supplied by the family center, to lay at a memorial area on the site.
Souda produces all of its work in its Bushwick studio, including Bubble, a chandelier made from discarded plastic bottles supplied by Sure We Can, a Brooklyn-based nonprofit organization that runs a can-collection program for homeless people.
