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December 2, 2014
Single-use laboratory garments are supported by a turn-key recycling program that includes supply, collection, out-shipment, and recycling into resin used in the production of durable goods. Sounds like the perfect closed-loop recycling process to me.
http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/vwr-launches-gown-up-give-back-a-garment-recycling-solution-for-customers-300003083.html
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December 3, 2014
My website now includes several links that are useful for plastic piping professionals, especially for the HDPE plastic pipe consultant. At present, all of them are Plastic Pipe Institute links. Check it out. Glad to hear about your similar links that you find useful here.
http://www.bryanhaugerconsulting.com/useful-links.html
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December 6, 2014
The idea is to use a plastic pipe that allows water vapor to pass through but keeps other stuff inside the pipe – things like salt or biologic wastes. The applications therefore become irrigation using salt water and concentration of waste water into bio-solids. I can’t speak to practicality but the idea is super.
http://www.takepart.com/article/2014/12/05/why-special-kind-plastic-pipe-could-be-solution-californias-water-woes
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December 8, 2014
Bryan Hauger Consulting selected to present at the Polyolefins Conference 2015
The preliminary conference program is now available and Bryan’s presentation titled “Recent Trends in Polyolefin Pipe Technology and Markets” will be part of a session titled “Polyolefins in Durable Applications”. Bryan’s presentation will start at 230 PM on February 24th. The conference program link is listed below. I intend to also check back into the two sessions on Advances in Polyolefin Stabilization. I hope you will decide to attend this important annual conference.
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December 10, 2014
Published today - new article regarding the plastic in the oceans. Super interesting article. Check it out. "This is the first study that compares all sizes of floating plastic in the world's oceans. . . . size classes and weight relationships suggests that during fragmentation plastics are lost from the sea surface. Simple comparisons across size classes allowed us to suggest possible pathways for oceanic plastics, and below we discuss these pathways and mechanisms involved".
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December 12, 2014
I posted the ASTM F17.61 minutes to the ASTM website and they should be available within 48 hours. Thanks to Ata for the great support as secretary for several years now!
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December 13, 2014
This article contains some interesting figures and statistics about polyethylene recycling. The two that caught my eye were a chart on the HDPE Bottle and Container Recycling Rate by decade since the 1960s and the percentage of municipal solid waste made up of HDPE Bottle and Containers. I found it surprising that HDPE doesn’t even comprise 1 per cent of the total solid waste stream.
http://waste360.com/plastics/profiles-garbage-high-density-polyethylene-bottles-and-containers
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December 15, 2014
The city of Fort Collins has been denied in attempt to halt hydraulic fracturing inside of city limits. In a December 12 ruling, the Colorado Court of Appeals issued a ruling that Fort Collins cannot prevent fracking during its appeal of an earlier decision against its moratorium on fracking.
http://www.kunc.org/post/court-denies-fort-collins-request-halt-fracking-while-city-appeals-ruling
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December 16, 2014
Weak Demand forecasts lower Asian PE prices
Growing inventories and falling ethylene support the trend of falling prices with weekly data showing nearly a 10% drop. PE resin is reported as having dropped to a new low for 2014. Aside from other factors there are suggests that the annual inventory reduction has started.
http://www.icis.com/resources/news/2014/12/16/9846806/se-asia-pe-prices-seen-declining-further-on-weak-demand/
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December 17, 2014
The most important topic in many boardrooms around the world – where will oil’s price slide stop? This article does a really good job of walking through the issues surrounding the current price instability. But the answer to the pricing question is not provided. And the article is five days old so their current oil price is way too high.
http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-12-11/shale-oils-relentless-production-is-breaking-opecs-neck#r=nav-f-story
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December 18, 2014
Here’s a fun and environmentally friendly idea – make your own greenhouse out of recycled 2L PET bottles. The catch is that you need 1400 bottles to make an 8’ by 6’ greenhouse. That’s a lot of soda. How does the saying go – “Some assembly required”? But the article says that the temperature is raised 10 degrees C.
http://www.greenoptimistic.com/2014/12/18/make-greenhouse-recycled-plastic-bottles/#.VJN9pd0MBg
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December 22, 2014
I thought it would be fun to start a group discussion page for plastic piping systems on The Water Network site drawing on my expertise as an HDPE pipe consultant. There was previously no mention of “plastic” in the groups at all. You can join The Water Network at the link listed below.
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December 23, 2014
This article from Businessweek includes an insightful analysis in a topic of interest to the oil patch. The analysis provided suggests that Canadian oil sands projects are less sensitive to the price of oil than hydraulic fracturing. This is based on two sound ideas; a longer asset lifetime for oil sands project in comparison to fracking projects and a lower operating cost for oil sands projects once established. Worth a read.
http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-12-22/canadas-oil-sands-are-better-bets-than-shale-oil#r=nav-r-story
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December 26, 2014
For those who care to understand the truth, here is a good article by a reputable newspaper that is well researched. The end-game, glass jars are not “better” for the environment. Good citations included to original research showing the facts. If the facts don’t fit your world-view, then I’m sorry.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/why-glass-jars-arent-necessarily-better-for-the-environment-than-plastic-ones/2014/06/23/2deecfd8-f56f-11e3-a606-946fd632f9f1_story.html
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December 30, 2014
Polyflow opens Midland, Texas plant
This article announces that spoolable composite pipe maker Polyflow LLC has shortened their supply chain by opening a new facility close to the oil and gas fields of Texas, New Mexico, and Oklahoma with eyes on the Eagle Ford Shale.
Customer list is said to include “Conoco Phillips, Devon Energy, Apache, Pioneer Natural Resources and Occidental Petroleum” among others. The article also states that Polyflow is on their way to doubling capacity and adding thirty-five jobs. CEO Jim Medalie is quoted extensively in the article.
http://www.plasticsnews.com/article/20141112/NEWS/141119983/polyflow-opens-texas-plant-to-make-plastic-pipe-for-permian-basin
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December 2, 2014
Single-use laboratory garments are supported by a turn-key recycling program that includes supply, collection, out-shipment, and recycling into resin used in the production of durable goods. Sounds like the perfect closed-loop recycling process to me.
http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/vwr-launches-gown-up-give-back-a-garment-recycling-solution-for-customers-300003083.html
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December 3, 2014
My website now includes several links that are useful for plastic piping professionals, especially for the HDPE plastic pipe consultant. At present, all of them are Plastic Pipe Institute links. Check it out. Glad to hear about your similar links that you find useful here.
http://www.bryanhaugerconsulting.com/useful-links.html
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December 6, 2014
The idea is to use a plastic pipe that allows water vapor to pass through but keeps other stuff inside the pipe – things like salt or biologic wastes. The applications therefore become irrigation using salt water and concentration of waste water into bio-solids. I can’t speak to practicality but the idea is super.
http://www.takepart.com/article/2014/12/05/why-special-kind-plastic-pipe-could-be-solution-californias-water-woes
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December 8, 2014
Bryan Hauger Consulting selected to present at the Polyolefins Conference 2015
The preliminary conference program is now available and Bryan’s presentation titled “Recent Trends in Polyolefin Pipe Technology and Markets” will be part of a session titled “Polyolefins in Durable Applications”. Bryan’s presentation will start at 230 PM on February 24th. The conference program link is listed below. I intend to also check back into the two sessions on Advances in Polyolefin Stabilization. I hope you will decide to attend this important annual conference.
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December 10, 2014
Published today - new article regarding the plastic in the oceans. Super interesting article. Check it out. "This is the first study that compares all sizes of floating plastic in the world's oceans. . . . size classes and weight relationships suggests that during fragmentation plastics are lost from the sea surface. Simple comparisons across size classes allowed us to suggest possible pathways for oceanic plastics, and below we discuss these pathways and mechanisms involved".
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December 12, 2014
I posted the ASTM F17.61 minutes to the ASTM website and they should be available within 48 hours. Thanks to Ata for the great support as secretary for several years now!
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December 13, 2014
This article contains some interesting figures and statistics about polyethylene recycling. The two that caught my eye were a chart on the HDPE Bottle and Container Recycling Rate by decade since the 1960s and the percentage of municipal solid waste made up of HDPE Bottle and Containers. I found it surprising that HDPE doesn’t even comprise 1 per cent of the total solid waste stream.
http://waste360.com/plastics/profiles-garbage-high-density-polyethylene-bottles-and-containers
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December 15, 2014
The city of Fort Collins has been denied in attempt to halt hydraulic fracturing inside of city limits. In a December 12 ruling, the Colorado Court of Appeals issued a ruling that Fort Collins cannot prevent fracking during its appeal of an earlier decision against its moratorium on fracking.
http://www.kunc.org/post/court-denies-fort-collins-request-halt-fracking-while-city-appeals-ruling
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December 16, 2014
Weak Demand forecasts lower Asian PE prices
Growing inventories and falling ethylene support the trend of falling prices with weekly data showing nearly a 10% drop. PE resin is reported as having dropped to a new low for 2014. Aside from other factors there are suggests that the annual inventory reduction has started.
http://www.icis.com/resources/news/2014/12/16/9846806/se-asia-pe-prices-seen-declining-further-on-weak-demand/
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December 17, 2014
The most important topic in many boardrooms around the world – where will oil’s price slide stop? This article does a really good job of walking through the issues surrounding the current price instability. But the answer to the pricing question is not provided. And the article is five days old so their current oil price is way too high.
http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-12-11/shale-oils-relentless-production-is-breaking-opecs-neck#r=nav-f-story
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December 18, 2014
Here’s a fun and environmentally friendly idea – make your own greenhouse out of recycled 2L PET bottles. The catch is that you need 1400 bottles to make an 8’ by 6’ greenhouse. That’s a lot of soda. How does the saying go – “Some assembly required”? But the article says that the temperature is raised 10 degrees C.
http://www.greenoptimistic.com/2014/12/18/make-greenhouse-recycled-plastic-bottles/#.VJN9pd0MBg
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December 22, 2014
I thought it would be fun to start a group discussion page for plastic piping systems on The Water Network site drawing on my expertise as an HDPE pipe consultant. There was previously no mention of “plastic” in the groups at all. You can join The Water Network at the link listed below.
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December 23, 2014
This article from Businessweek includes an insightful analysis in a topic of interest to the oil patch. The analysis provided suggests that Canadian oil sands projects are less sensitive to the price of oil than hydraulic fracturing. This is based on two sound ideas; a longer asset lifetime for oil sands project in comparison to fracking projects and a lower operating cost for oil sands projects once established. Worth a read.
http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-12-22/canadas-oil-sands-are-better-bets-than-shale-oil#r=nav-r-story
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December 26, 2014
For those who care to understand the truth, here is a good article by a reputable newspaper that is well researched. The end-game, glass jars are not “better” for the environment. Good citations included to original research showing the facts. If the facts don’t fit your world-view, then I’m sorry.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/why-glass-jars-arent-necessarily-better-for-the-environment-than-plastic-ones/2014/06/23/2deecfd8-f56f-11e3-a606-946fd632f9f1_story.html
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December 30, 2014
Polyflow opens Midland, Texas plant
This article announces that spoolable composite pipe maker Polyflow LLC has shortened their supply chain by opening a new facility close to the oil and gas fields of Texas, New Mexico, and Oklahoma with eyes on the Eagle Ford Shale.
Customer list is said to include “Conoco Phillips, Devon Energy, Apache, Pioneer Natural Resources and Occidental Petroleum” among others. The article also states that Polyflow is on their way to doubling capacity and adding thirty-five jobs. CEO Jim Medalie is quoted extensively in the article.
http://www.plasticsnews.com/article/20141112/NEWS/141119983/polyflow-opens-texas-plant-to-make-plastic-pipe-for-permian-basin
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