Reimagining Upholstery: Foam Without Compromise
November 19, 2024
Finding alternatives to traditional plastic foams is one of the big challenges facing designers and manufacturers seeking to lower the impact of their work when
Geoff Isaac, PhD . Plastics in design specialist and author of Featherston monograph
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It’s a croc of…
October 9, 2024
recycled plastic. Crocs the comfortable, yet many would say ugly, footwear company has launched a new version of their popular slip-on. Using recycled plastic, recovered
Are bio-based materials really biodegradable?
September 4, 2024
Everything will decompose eventually – it just takes hundreds of years for fossil-based plastics to disappear. Of course, they don’t really disappear, they just break
Do bioplastics compete with agricuture?
July 1, 2024
We are often told that the downside of bioplastics is that it competes with agricultural production. First-generation bioplastics like PLA are frequently made from corn