Article: Clear alternatives, transparent motives: clear resins are competing with glass and each other in consumer applications.(NORTH AMERICA)

More and more, consumers seem to be looking for greater transparency in their personal products, whether water bottles or automobiles. At nearly every level--from the disposable package to the highly engineered product--plastics have been able to fulfill these desires. But ironically, this transparency has made the limitations of some these materials more visible.

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For example, polycarbonate has received extra (unwanted) attention lately, given discussion about the health effects of bisphenol-A (BPA) monomer remnants that remain in PC after polymerization. The effects of BPA are still being debated in terms of science and regulation, ...

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