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Global economic overview: Global growth has slight acceleration for advanced economies where growth is expected to rise from 1.6 percent in 2023 to 1.7 percent in 2024 and 1.8 percent in 2025 ...

Two days before Christmas, the first confirmation quietly arrived: an application for tax subsidies to build an $8.6 billion plastics manufacturing plant. Wilson found the news particularly alarming.

critics and proponents alike will be watching the UK plant carefully to see if it comes close to reaching that ambitious goal — or joins the long line of unfulfilled hopes for recycled plastics ...

There’s yet more evidence that exposure to plastics can be harmful to health. Recent research indicates that black plastic found in items like food containers, kitchen utensils, and toys often ...

Cognitively normal human brain samples collected at autopsy in early 2024 contained more tiny shards of plastic than samples collected eight years prior, according to a new study. Overall ...

Our brains are increasingly plastic. Minuscule shards and flakes of polymers are surprisingly abundant in brain tissue, a study of postmortem brains shows. This appraisal of microplastics and ...

Deal volume growth in the specialty subsector pushed plastics M&A into positive territory for 2024. That subsector, which includes machinery, specialty extrusion and distribution, grew by 29 deals vs.

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Westlake, Texas-based Pipeline Plastics LLC will build its fifth factory in Rupert, Idaho, where it plans to create 50 jobs. The manufacturer of polyethylene pipes for drinking water, irrigation ...

Key Laboratory of Industrial Ecology and Environmental Engineering (Ministry of Education), Dalian Key Laboratory on Chemicals Risk Control and Pollution Prevention Technology, School of Environmental ...