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Plastics in a sustainable society

March 1, 2015

During its short history of only less than 75 yrs, plastics have emerged as the material of choice in a diverse variety of applications. The World production of plastics has been on the increase exponentially and in 2013 stood at 288 MMT of resin. In terms of global per-capita consumption during the last few decades, plastics clearly outperformed competing materials such as wood, metal or glass as a material of construction.  There is a continuing trend of the substitution of these competing materials by plastics in building, packaging, construction, and medical devices. The reason behind this impressive market success of plastics is attributed to its unique functionality and low cost.  Plastics are relatively lower in density and can, therefore, be inexpensively transported, durable under most environments, bio-inert allowing it to be used in food-contact uses, formable into complex shapes, recyclable at low cost and are cost-effective in most applications. With the increase in global population and greater per capita use in developing regions of the World, plastics as a material is destined to continue its impressive record of use into the foreseeable future.

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