In addition to the above narrative it is common knowledge that large oil companies that produce polyolefins do not have the correct people in their communication departments to properly articulate the problem. They are high paid marketing types from college that rarely return calls and have little field experience or experience with the issues at large. These same oil companies hire consultants that know their subject inside and out but end us working with incompetence within the same organizations by handing the consultant over to people that are in their communication department and are fearful of having others do their job!! Remember big oil companies produce oil and other intermediates and the plastics side is just another business that has become a burden on their system from environmental and activist and special interest that are paid to subject the population at large that know very little of another false narrative and alternative facts. To compound this nonsense social media and politicians contribute to the nonsense by being paid from "dark money". Each component of this overall issue requires a coordinated effort and the elimination of fuel that big oil companies and their plastic plants generate by adding to the narrative with deliberate pollution of the water systems and the local community from pellets from railroad cars and poor management with no accountability. This alone could be avoided but adds to the fuel the opposition needs to feed their arguments.
Furthermore, and last but not least is the issue of proper long term fortification and end of life cycles that could be controlled by the polyolefin manufacturers if they wanted to alter their current and past practices of relying on MB providers to supplement for their lack of control of the final products leaving their plant!! It is time for big oil and their plastic divisions to revisit the full and proper fortification of products for direct use by fiber, tape, film ,molded plastics that do not require post addition of masterbatches that only add to the problems. Note: In 1967 Shell Development Woodbury NJ fortified their PP from the plant including colorant to avoid MB for years and it worked to their advantage.
J.R. great addition and perspective! There is also the whole defunding in the US of the EPA which makes PMNs super slow as well so even if you are trying to get something new to market it will take at least a year.
One question, what do you mean by MB providers? It's a term I haven't come across yet. Thanks for reading and commenting!
I would say that the solutions *start* with scientists and engineers -- they are a "necessary but not sufficient" part of the solution. The other part that is needed is customer or shareholder will.
I think COVID-19 vaccines are actually a good case in point -- science made them possible in a very short time (an incredible achievement) but in the US, which is swimming with vaccines, politically driven low uptake in certain places means that there are going to be a lot of big COVID outbreaks in the very near future. The science is not enough.
In addition to the above narrative it is common knowledge that large oil companies that produce polyolefins do not have the correct people in their communication departments to properly articulate the problem. They are high paid marketing types from college that rarely return calls and have little field experience or experience with the issues at large. These same oil companies hire consultants that know their subject inside and out but end us working with incompetence within the same organizations by handing the consultant over to people that are in their communication department and are fearful of having others do their job!! Remember big oil companies produce oil and other intermediates and the plastics side is just another business that has become a burden on their system from environmental and activist and special interest that are paid to subject the population at large that know very little of another false narrative and alternative facts. To compound this nonsense social media and politicians contribute to the nonsense by being paid from "dark money". Each component of this overall issue requires a coordinated effort and the elimination of fuel that big oil companies and their plastic plants generate by adding to the narrative with deliberate pollution of the water systems and the local community from pellets from railroad cars and poor management with no accountability. This alone could be avoided but adds to the fuel the opposition needs to feed their arguments.
Furthermore, and last but not least is the issue of proper long term fortification and end of life cycles that could be controlled by the polyolefin manufacturers if they wanted to alter their current and past practices of relying on MB providers to supplement for their lack of control of the final products leaving their plant!! It is time for big oil and their plastic divisions to revisit the full and proper fortification of products for direct use by fiber, tape, film ,molded plastics that do not require post addition of masterbatches that only add to the problems. Note: In 1967 Shell Development Woodbury NJ fortified their PP from the plant including colorant to avoid MB for years and it worked to their advantage.
J.R. great addition and perspective! There is also the whole defunding in the US of the EPA which makes PMNs super slow as well so even if you are trying to get something new to market it will take at least a year.
One question, what do you mean by MB providers? It's a term I haven't come across yet. Thanks for reading and commenting!
I would say that the solutions *start* with scientists and engineers -- they are a "necessary but not sufficient" part of the solution. The other part that is needed is customer or shareholder will.
I think COVID-19 vaccines are actually a good case in point -- science made them possible in a very short time (an incredible achievement) but in the US, which is swimming with vaccines, politically driven low uptake in certain places means that there are going to be a lot of big COVID outbreaks in the very near future. The science is not enough.