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2020 Annual Letter

Merry Christmas

Biobased Plastics and Composting

Covestro Invests in AI, Arkema Buys and Sells and Loop Industries is a Fraud?

Solving the Plastic Waste Problem: Part 4

Monsanto is in Trouble Again and Shell Executives Are Leaving

Solving the Plastic Waste Problem: Part 3

Wacker to Exit Wafer Business and Industrial Collaboration to Create Sustainable Meat Packaging

Trash To Money - Doing Well by Doing Good

Black Friday - Vote With Your Dollars. Write to Jeff Bezos or Your Representative.

Solving the Plastic Waste Problem: Part 2

Oil Giant Plans Pivot, Non-Wood Engineered Wood, and Sika Invests in The Middle East

Solving the Plastic Waste Problem: Part 1

Antimicrobial Paint, Nanobodies for Livestock, and Solvay Paying Out a Covid Bonus

Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation Closing Beaumont Site

BASF Doubles Down on AgChemTech, Europe Leads in Sustainability, and Hexion Moves Into Wraps

Oil Down, Chemicals Up, and an Oil Less Future

Plastic from Emissions, a Changing Energy Landscape, and Layoffs at Exxon

Stora Enso Launches Accelerator

Wearable Printed Electronics, Improved Profits For Some, and Expanding Capacity

LG Chem Announces New Biodegradable Material

Turquoise Ammonia, Work Force Reductions at Wacker, and Recycling Polyurethanes

Chemical Industry and World Wildlife Fund Work Together

Polyethylene Wax, Nobel Prize in Chemistry, and Partially Renewable Chemicals

Can composting save the world?

Phenolic Resins, Circular Economy Investments, and Oil Pivots

An attempt to understand what is going on in the world of chemicals from the view of a polymer chemist