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Recycle and Disposal of Plastic Food Packaging Waste 9: Some of the Challenges Facing the Business of Municipal Waste Sorting

March 13, 2017 By Jeffrey Gotro 1 Comment

Guest Post by Dr. Robert (Bob) Humphreys In two previous posts, we presented a brief overview of technological advances that have made automated sorting and recycle of municipal waste economically practical. Indeed, the range of sorted materials with significant economic value, such as paper, cardboard, glass, steel, aluminum, polyethylene terephthalate (PET) and ... [Click to Continue...]

Recycle and Disposal of Plastic Food Packaging Waste 8: More About Waste Plastic Sorting Technologies

March 6, 2017 By Jeffrey Gotro 1 Comment

Guest Post by Dr. Robert (Bob) Humphreys In the previous post, we gave a brief overview of the preliminary stage of sorting of municipal solid waste (MSW) to separate a fraction that is similar in composition to single-stream recyclable waste that municipalities collect at curbside. Further sorting of this recyclable waste can occur at the mixed waste recovery facility ... [Click to Continue...]

Recycle and Disposal of Plastic Food Packaging Waste 7: Waste Plastic Sorting Technologies

February 27, 2017 By Jeffrey Gotro 1 Comment

Guest Post by Dr. Robert (Bob) Humphreys Engineers are without a doubt the most important people in a modern, technologically advanced society such as the one we enjoy in the USA. Virtually every step in the daily lives of every person in the country is impacted or made possible by something an engineer did, is doing, or will do. Engineers work on mundane projects such as ... [Click to Continue...]

An Example of Initiative: My Garage Door Experience

February 20, 2017 By Jeffrey Gotro 3 Comments

In my last post we started a discussion on the high level state of jobs in the United States.  The graph above shows a telling trend.  Manufacturing output is up over 20% since the recovery started, but jobs are only up approximately 6 percent.  There was job creation in the manufacturing sector, but automation and factory efficiency led the way.  So where are the jobs that ... [Click to Continue...]

Where Does Innovation Fit in the Job Creation Discussion?

February 13, 2017 By Jeffrey Gotro 1 Comment

  (source: iStock photo/Getty Images) For my readers who live in the United States, the last few weeks have been a head-scratcher.  One of the key campaign issues was job creation.  So how do you create jobs?  Interesting and complicated question.  Since this is an innovation blog, one might ask, where is the topic of innovation in the discussion?  My take is ... [Click to Continue...]

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I’m Dr. Jeff Gotro and welcome to the Polymer Innovation Blog. Over the last 40 years I have been involved in polymer research, along with product and process development. I acquired invaluable experience working for IBM, AlliedSignal, Honeywell, Ablestik Labs (now Henkel) and in multiple consulting projects. In this blog, I (along with some guest contributors) will share our experiences, tips, and “tricks of the trade” to get more out of your innovation efforts and discuss new trends and technical advances in the polymer industry.
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