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  2. Polycarbonate - Wikipedia

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    A major polycarbonate market is the production of compact discs, DVDs, and Blu-ray discs. [13] These discs are produced by injection-molding polycarbonate into a mold cavity that has on one side a metal stamper containing a negative image of the disc data, while the other mold side is a mirrored surface.

  3. Plastics industry - Wikipedia

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    Besides plastics production, plastics engineering is an important part of the industrial sector. The latter field is dominated by engineering plastic as raw material because of its better mechanical and thermal properties than the more widely used commodity plastics.

  4. These countries produce the most plastic pollution in our ...

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    Millions of tons of plastic end up in Earth’s water bodies every year, and less than 10 percent of the world’s annual plastic production is recycled, according to the World Health Organization ...

  5. Bisphenol A - Wikipedia

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    Global production in 2022 was estimated to be in the region of 10 million tonnes. [8] BPA's largest single application is as a co-monomer in the production of polycarbonates, which accounts for 65–70% of all BPA production. [9] [10] The manufacturing of epoxy resins and vinyl ester resins account for 25–30% of BPA use.

  6. Plastic - Wikipedia

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    From the start of plastic production through to 2015, the world produced around 6.3 billion tonnes of plastic waste, only 9% of which has been recycled and only ~1% has been recycled more than once. [107] Of the remaining waste, 12% was incinerated and 79% was either sent to landfills or lost to the environment as pollution. [107]

  7. Compact disc manufacturing - Wikipedia

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    Compact disc manufacturing is the process by which commercial compact discs (CDs) are replicated in mass quantities using a master version created from a source recording. This may be either in audio form (CD-DA) or data form (CD-ROM). This process is used in the mastering of read-only compact discs. DVDs and Blu-rays use similar methods (see ...

  8. Timeline of plastic development - Wikipedia

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    Eduard Simon, a German apothecary, discovers polystyrene. [2] 1844. Thomas Hancock patents the vulcanization of rubber in Britain immediately followed by Charles Goodyear in United States. [3] 1856. Parkesine, the first member of the Celluloid class of compounds and considered the first man-made plastic, is patented by Alexander Parkes. [4] 1869.

  9. ‘Blueprint Planet’ by Huffington Post

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    You recycle your plastic iced tea bottles. Of course you carry a reusable bottle for water. You compost the scraps from your locally sourced, organically grown vegetables. You hardly ever eat red meat. You carpool to work in your electric car. You bike on the weekends.

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