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Article: PP aces Plastics Scorecard; PVC fails, PETgets grade of C-.(News)
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- Plastics News
- Article date:
- October 5, 2009
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Byline: Matt Griswold
The oft-maligned polymer PVC failed to make the grade in the newly released Plastics Scorecard a guide designed by green chemistry-focused organizations to help designers, specifiers and buyers of plastic products make material choices that promote human and environmental health.
The Plastics Scorecard grades various plastics from F to A+ based on their life-cycle performance, taking into account criteria for feedstock production, petrochemical and plastics manufacturing, recycled content, product use and end of life.
The reference system, created by non-profit environmental solutions provider Clean Production Action and ...