Polyvinyl chloride

ENGR 100 – Fall 2016 Assignment #3 Name: Nemanja Koviljac Student ID: 000129698 Date Submitted: 10.21.2016. Southwest Louisiana (SWLA) Westlake Chemical is corporation that makes chemical and plastic products. This company is global supplier of plastics, petrochemicals and building products. President and CEO of Westlake Chemical is Albert Chao. It was founded in 1986. and has headquarters at Houston, Texas. This corporation has approximately 9000 employees. Westlake Chemical has two major…

In the production process, the polymer plastic will has Polyvinyl chloride toxic can cause serious pollution of air, water and land. Cycle can affect the natural environment. ScienceDirect, Global Environmental Change, Volume 23 Issue 6, December 2013, Page1852-1861,“Natural cycles” in lay understandings of climate changeLinda H. Connor, Nick Higginbothamb Available at: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0959378013001088 [Accessed 1 April 2017] Natural cycles are the center of…

their first set of toys, doctor and nurse kits. Later in 1952 Hasbro launched Mr. Potato Head, the first toy ever to be advertised on television. Then in the 60s GI JOE became Hasbro’s first action figure. In 2013 they set a goal to eliminate polyvinyl chloride (PVC) from all new core toy and game packaging. (http://www.hasbro.com/corporate-2/images/2013_HasbroHistory.pdf) (add more)? Hasbro Today: … Business…

For decades, we have been tricked into believing that plastic bottled water is a safer and healthier alternative to tap water. Unfortunately, the water bottle industry is hiding something from us, and the truth is frightening. Studies by the Container Recycling Institute found that Americans buy approximately 42.6 billion plastic water bottles each year. Roughly 80 percent of these containers end up in a landfill, and millions wash up on roadways or in nature. Countries around the world are…

Introduction to vinyl What do you hear when you hear to word vinyl? Do you think of those old records that would play music on a spinning platform with a needle; well you're wrong. Vinyl is just a fancy word for sticker, but it’s not a sticker. Unlike stickers vinyl will stick to a surface for a very long time if you take care of it. Also a sticker is made out of paper with a sticky adhesive and can be remove. Removing a stick involves a lot more work that vinyl. You have to peel it off but now…

The author of “Following The Trail Of Toxic Waste” states “Lead, condominium, mercury, chromium, polyvinyl chlorides. All of these materials have known toxicological effects that range from brain damage to kidney disease to mutations, cancers.” These are the many different materials that are from E-waste that can harm our bodies from brain damage to cancer…

a. Card body Several materials could be utilized to suit the card body and conform the application requirements such as the desired period of validity: • PVC (polyvinyl chloride), • PC (polycarbonate), • PETG (polyester), • Composite materials. b. Possible applications • Digital signatures • E-prescriptions • Electronic patient file • Medication history for interaction inspection • Pregnancy and vaccination records • Emergency data • Organ donor ID • Bonus schemes • Cost tracking c. Scope of…

lights. If they break, CFLs can emit mercury, a neurotoxin, in small amounts into the air. Carpets cannot be fully cleaned of mercury and vacuums should not be used to pick it up. 3. New electronics and other plastic products. Products made with polyvinyl chloride can emit phthalates, which have…

Nowadays, we buy lots of products and things and most of those products we buy might have negative impacts on us humans, the environment and animals. Many of these products enter our homes and the one that is frequently used are cleaning products. Cleaning products mainly consist of toxic chemicals that can have a great impact on our health and the environment. Why would you risk your health? Cleanliness is an important thing and we all want our homes to be clean and free of germs, but what…

With the fashion industry being of the major pollutants of the bodies of water, the textile-processing exposes people and the nature to harmful chemicals. In fact, there are 72 emitted toxic elements during textile manufacturing as recognized by the World Bank (Anguelov, 2016). According to Kant, that out of the 72 toxic elements, 42 of these can be under the partial purification process that does not eliminate their toxicity level rather minimize it (as cited in Anguelov, 2016). Obviously, 30…