On Election Day California citizens voted yes on Proposition 67, making California the first state in the nation to ban single-use carryout bags. These bags rank fourth among the types of trash found in coastal cleanups. Environmentalists hope that this movement will take hold and spread across the U.S. To put the issue of plastics [...]
Plastic is a term which describes a variety of man-made molecules composed of repeating structural units. These large molecules are called polymers, and each repeating unit within a polymer is called a monomer. A polymer is made up of many monomers. The monomers comprising plastic polymers are usually derived from petroleum, also known as crude [...]
